India’s growing embrace of industrial palm oil threatens the nation’s rich diversity of oilseed crops. What are the risks for farmers, public health and the environment?

Amidst intensified conflicts stemming from the presence of the Socfin Agricultural Company in the Chiefdom, the event aimed to address longstanding grievances and foster a path toward peace and development.

Repórter Brazil also documented cases where Swiss Re had concluded insurance contracts with farms that illegally cultivated indigenous protected areas and used armed violence

Bloomberg exposé on Frank Timis' plan to turn Les Fermes de la Teranga (ex-Senhuile) into a major source of animal feed for the Gulf States and the implications for Dakar's water supply

As part of the initiative, development bank BNDES could set up a fund to attract foreign capital, and Japan, South Korea, China and Saudi Arabia have shown interest backing investments of this type.

One of the world’s largest palm oil producers, First Resources, appears to have secretly controlled a network of companies that have been clearing rainforests in Indonesia for more than a decade, an investigation by The Gecko Project has found.

Impact Ag Partners recently joined SLM Partners to launch the SLM Agri Carbon Fund – a new investment vehicle to back regenerative agriculture and carbon storage in Australia.

Zimbabwe's President says he brought his Minister of Agriculture to Riyadh to follow-up on discussions held recently in Harare about signing an MOU for the production of grain for export to Saudi Arabia.

The Stop Harvard Land Grabs Coalition reiterated calls for the University to provide reparations to residents impacted by former holdings in Brazilian farmlands at an annual hybrid panel on Wednesday.

Human rights organizations and parliamentarians from West African countries and Zambia in East Africa have expressed interest in Sierra Leone’s new land laws and efforts to resist and negotiate better terms with international companies.

The founder of debt ladden Chinese property developer Shimao Group Holdings has put a Western Australia cattle station portfolio almost as big as Belgium on the market with an asking price of about $250 million.

Pastoral Partners Australia, a carbon farming and sustainable grazing fund owned by New Zealand infrastructure investor Morrison & Co, has lifted the size of its portfolio to over 100,000 hectares.

Four years after a private equity firm merged two of the nation’s largest peach farmers into a single entity, the firm is basically worthless.

farming communities from across Latin America to Suriname with the plan of starting a series of agriculture projects.

French logistics giant Bolloré SE has been deemed an unethical investment by some of Switzerland’s most powerful pension funds.

A decade after transnational palm oil company Wilmar took control of a derelict oil palm plantation, local residents continue to fight for the farmlands, forests and rivers they use.

The board of Australia’s largest fruit and vegetable company, Costa Group, has agreed to a cut-price $1.5 billion takeover offer from a consortium headed by private equity firm Paine Schwartz Partners.

Arab News speaks exclusively to CEO of FonGrow, spearheading agriculture projects under new investment body, who says Pakistan is in talks with Saudi companies like Al-Dahara, Saleh and Al-Khorayef for investment in corporate farming.

Financial players are moving aggressively to snatch up lands around the world with access to water for irrigation. Their strategy is to pump as much water as they can and as fast as they can into the production of crops that reap high prices in export markets.

From Ghana to Nigeria and Ivory Coast, communities impacted by the operations of Belgium’s SIAT Group seek an end to a decade-long conflict tied to SIAT’s extensive plantations.

A new report explains how Harvard University, pension fund TIAA and multinational agribusiness corporation Bunge are enabling illegal land grabs and increasing deforestation for soy production

The Swiss association of the largest public pension funds, has decided to exclude shares in the French group Bolloré SE. The exclusion is justified by “potential human rights violations in Liberia, Cambodia and Sierra Leone”.

Belgian businessman Hubert Fabri and Vincent Bolloré's group want to take total control of Socfin by acquiring all the shares in the Luxembourg multinational, which is regularly accused of human rights violations.

Under Cibus Fund I’s ownership, Innoliva has doubled its footprint from around 4,300ha of “super high-density” olive-oil production to over 8,300ha of diversified products, including almonds and table olives.

New report by the Oakland Institute examines the African Forestry Impact Platform bankrolled by European development finance institutions, Japanese oil interests, and an Australian investment firm.

Behind a process to transfer land and hand over 14,173 hectares to three villages stands Landesa, a land rights organization that designed the modality of the transfer process and coordinated the negotiations.

A delegation of agriculture and MSMEs agriculturists is set to travel to Paraguay, driven by the prospect of procuring land and initiating farming ventures.

Through Macquarie Asset Management, PFJC will invest in farmland with various crops, such as wheat, beans, cotton and avocados on farmlands spread across eastern and western Australia.

The Multi Actors Platform on Land Governance and Responsible Agricultural Investment in Liberia launches a series of programs including the Private Sector Engagement Strategy and the Responsible Agriculture Investment.

Institutional investors, large corporates and big family operators are expected to dominate demand for prime farmland this financial year as smaller farmers’ buying power takes a hit from higher interest rates, lower profits.