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

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

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

Corporations are starting to buy up US farmland, especially in areas dominated by industrial-scale agriculture, like Iowa and California's Central Valley

Some pension funds are beginning to question their investments in commodities after accusations that massive flows into the sector have distorted markets, fuelled food inflation and hurt poor nations.

Mounting concern over security of food supplies is spurring a wave of private-sector investment in Africa.

Citadel's Karim Sadek dismisses talk of land grabbing as an “academic concern”, saying “there should definitely be a priority for the produce to be sold on the local market, if there is a paying market for it”.

Fiagros are a new type of fund that can allow foreigners to circumvent legal restrictions and acquire land in Brazil.

Comprising 9,000 hectares in the heart of Uruguay, the farm, which produces beef cattle, soybeans, rice, and timber, was sold to an undisclosed European family office

Farmland purchases by the Harvard endowment contributed to a climate of anxiety, fear, and strain on Brazilian subsistence farmers.

Communities say a SOCFIN subsidiary used a $10M loan from the World Bank's IFC to turn the forests where they’d farmed and held sacred rituals into a massive rubber plantation.

Conversations held with activists from around the world in May and June webinars of 2022 make clear the need for a movement to take pensions out of financial markets - including land grabs!

A three-day campaign called “Land Under Siege,” consisting of a teach-in, a Mass. Hall rally and an organiser training event, was organized by Harvard Undergraduates for Environmental Justice.

Making a bet on climate change, the university’s $39 billion endowment has been snapping up farmland and the related water rights

The banana plantation in Monapo, Nampula, that was supposed to be a model for foreign farm investment and was promoted by Norfund, has finally gone bankrupt, at huge cost to Mozambique.

The portfolio, once considered a crown jewel in the endowment, is vast with assets including timberland plantations in Central and South America, a dairy farm in New Zealand, and vineyards in California.

Russia’s geopolitical conflicts, anemic oil prices and weakened ruble are working out rather well for the country’s biggest publicly traded farming company, which trades on the London Stock Exchange.

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

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.

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.

Between the farmers and Olam lies one of Lao’s most powerful, and some allege, corrupt families, the Siphandones.

Until last year, people in the Ethiopian settlement of Elliah earned a living by farming their land and fishing. Now, they are employees.

"This apparent rush to lease so much farmland, much or all of it to foreign interests, during a time of worsening food insecurity should raise concern within the donor community about GoE motivations and negotiating capacity," writes the US embassy in Addis Ababa in December 2009

Islamabad instead of allowing foreigners control of local agri-land should use twenty million acres of government land to settle 2 million families by allotting ten acres land to each family

Hedge funds and investment banks are swapping their Gucci for gumboots as they bet on rising food prices by buying farms.

What can possibly be wrong about planting trees? This investigation digs deeper into a conflict unfolding in southern Madagascar, between the local community and an Italian multinational. As similar green projects multiply, this case highlights a critical challenge.

The strategy for Lombard Odier is to create nature-based investment assets by deploying capital into monoculture coffee plantations near forests and to re-forest them, creating shaded, biodiverse agroforests.

The case is emblematic of the spate of land grabs targeting unallocated public lands throughout the Amazon, where speculators clear and burn the vegetation, then sell the empty land for soy farms.

TLG manages 20,000 hectares of farmland in Uruguay producing beef, soybeans, rice, and timber on behalf of European pension funds, insurance companies and family offices.

Investigation finds Rabobank acquired farmlands in Romania that had been sold without the knowledge or consent of the farmer owners.