Last year trustees added a global farmland fund managed by Insight Investment Management to the Kingfisher pension scheme.

A substantial payout could be in store for private equity firms willing to take on the risk and plough capital into the farming business.

TIAA-CREF is expected to announce Tuesday that it has raised $3 billion for its second global farmland-investment partnership, exceeding its initial target of $2.5 billion.

The sliding dollar is sweetening Australia's appeal as an agricultural investment destination ripe for overseas companies and fund managers, particularly from North America and Europe.

Farmers evicted to make way for project backed by UN's IFAD say they have received little compensation. They're taking the industrial palm oil producers to court.

NeglectAssist is warning private investors to watch out for exotic Australian land investments promising both security and high returns.

Internal watchdog finds link between World Bank financing and Ethiopian government's mass resettlement of indigenous group

It takes a gallon of water to produce one almond. And that's not the most insane fact about the mad dash to plant the thirsty trees in the middle of a catastrophic drought in California.

Some liken farmland investment to real estate and infrastructure 20 years ago.

The grazing lands of the Maasai community in East Africa are being viewed as the next frontier for land grabbing.

As the lands of traditional palm oil powerhouses like Indonesia and Malaysia have become saturated with plantations, companies looking to profit have turned to areas of tropical forest elsewhere – like Papua New Guinea.

Small-holder farmers hold key to Africa's food security, but are often excluded from debates on agricultural investments.

Large scale businesses like Wilmar risk being labeled land grabbers, but we don't have that in Nigeria, says Minister of Agriculture Dr. Akinwumi Adesina.

"Land consolidation is the only way,” Peter Beerents, chief executive officer of Dutch farmland investment firm Cibus Land Management Srl.

AGCO CEO says his company is planning to have a second “future farm” in Nigeria because it’s also a very big market. AGCO's first "future farm' is in Zambia.

Some experts say that the Chinese engagement in African agriculture is still in the exploratory stage.

Swedish pension fund AP Fonden 2 has invested $750 million to TIAA-CREF Global Agriculture II, confirming rumours that the pension was one of three foreign investors contributing to the vehicle’s $1.4 billion fundraise.

A small but growing group of sophisticated investors and bankers are combining crops and the soil they grow in into an asset class that ordinary investors can buy a piece of.

A New York tycoon won a sweetheart deal to build a massive "sustainable" palm oil plantation in Cameroon. What followed were accusations of intimidation, corruption, bribery, and deceit.

For private equity houses, pension funds and family offices, the sprawling farms of sub Saharan Africa are the new land of plenty.

UK pensions funds and asset management companies potentially have up to £37 billion invested in ‘land grabs’ worldwide, according to a report published by Friends of the Earth.

Profit maximization for multinationals like Karuturi is bolstered by the fact that borrowing locally is highly profitable.

Tim Hornibrook, head of Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management, obtained sensitive details about a competitor's profits, fee structure and returns by posing as a wealthy investor.

This report identifies broad trends in farmland investing with the potential to affect countries in the Global North and Global South

“We can have a nice debate about foreign investment here in Australia, but in the global context it isn’t a discussion about whether it is nice to have, we need it, we absolutely need it.”

The story may be over for the Menara Group in Aru, Indonesia. Now it’s time to look at Boven Digoel, where Menara is using the pretext of oil palm plantations to get its hands on 400,000 ha of primary forest.

Serge Fortin, chief executive of Canadian farmland investment company Pangea, believes Quebec's small farms must be replaced by larger farms to survive

"You don't have to be a financial genius to sense an opportunity here."

Trade deal with South Korea cuts the value of Australian farmland purchases that attract scrutiny from the Foreign Investment Review Board from $53 million to $15m.

Foreign companies, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds are ready and willing to invest in the Australian farm sector, but many parts of the industry are still not investment-ready.