In the face of increased land grabbing and speculation, the European Commission must put a common land governance framework on the political agenda in coming months to ensure a future for farmers and protect the well-being of citizens.

AP Pension’s agriculture investments more than doubled in net income, partly due to a higher land value. The pension firm has noticed an increased interest in land from other actors as well.

Banks, pension funds and insurers have been turning California's scarce water into enormous profits, leaving people with less to drink

Harvard, Saudi Arabia and The Vanguard Group are just a few of the investors who have been buying up Ukrainian land en masse, while many Ukrainian farmers argue it should stay in Ukrainian hands.

Palmer was central to the debate on “land grabbing” that followed the financial, food and energy crises of 2007-08. He passed away on February 19, 2023.

The Beligian retail company Colruyt Group has recently started buying its own farmland to produce foods for its supermarkets.

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has acquired a majority stake in Mitolo Family Farms-- Australia’s largest potato producer and owner of one of the country's largest horticultural land aggregations.

A Mongabay investigation into land-grabbing in the Brazilian Amazon has led to the suspension of the sustainability certificate of the country’s second top palm oil exporter

Water Asset Management has bought up thousands of acres of irrigated land across Arizona, California, Colorado and Nevada as well as pending deals in New Mexico and Texas.

Indigenous leader of the Awyu people filed an environmental and land rights lawsuit challenging the plan by a Malaysian-owned palm oil company that will clear tens of thousands of hectares of West Papuan forest.

We should be concerned about the financialized logic promoted by investors and mega-farmers, which seeks to extract monetary value from every square inch of farmland.

The UN counted 355 SLAPPs from the business community between 2015 and 2022. Individuals and organisations that expose human rights violations, abuses in mining, agriculture and forestry and on palm oil plantations are most often affected.

The war in Ukraine could stimulate a new global land race that could affect the world's agricultural system, says a new study by researchers at the Politecnico di Milano.

Groups call on European governments to honour their responsibilities to the communities affected by their investments in a DR Congo palm oil plantation by taking action to stop the violence surrounding the mediation process.

One year into the war, a new report reveals how oligarchs and financial interests are expanding control over Ukraine’s agricultural land with help and financing from Western financial institutions.

On Dec. 1, 2022, a French court ordered Socfin to share minutes from board meetings held over the last four years with the 145 Cameroonian plaintiffs, pointing out that the Bolloré group may have actual control over the firm

IDB Invest provided Agrovision, a US-based vertically-integrated producer and exporter of superfruits, a revolving credit line of up to $20 million to cover its blueberry production cycle in Latin America and the Caribbean, and support its growth in Peru and Mexico.

Ten years after the signing of their first lease, we interviewed 30 inhabitants about their experiences and opinions concerning the activities of the Italian JTF-Tozzi Green in Madagascar.

Mission Produce is vertically integrated in Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, and South Africa, and manages over 5,500 hectares of avocados.

The real threat to our food security, according to researchers, is broader corporate ownership and consolidation of American farmland — including by domestic investors.

A subsidiary of UAE financial firm Talc Investments has acquired a large plot of land in the heart of previously well-known banana territories in the province of Somaliland.

The deal is the second $100 million-plus farming transaction involving offshore investors this year, highlighting the global appeal of prime Australian farmland.

NFFC says that a new “land grab” is underway in the US, with Wall Street investors, pension funds, and other financiers looking for a safe place to park their money and turning to farmlands as their preferred investment.

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.

Grassley says young and beginning farmers are increasingly competing with institutional investors, such as pension funds and endowments, who are diversifying their financial portfolios with prime farmland.

African Agriculture has agreed to a public-private partnership with the Government of Mauritania and the communities of Boghé on the Senegal River Valley for a phased commercial farming buildout up to $500mm of investment.

Local farmers say they can no longer afford to send children to school after the oil giant’s 40,000 hectare tree plantation barred them from their fields

Global agricultural investor Nuveen Natural Capital has joined a growing pool of institutional fund managers targeting Australia’s burgeoning macadamia sector, after buying one of the country’s largest orchards

BNP Paribas Asset Management has bought a majority stake in a Danish firm specialising in woodland and agricultural investments.

A clause in the 2023 budget states that "it is expected that large parcels of unutilised/unproductively used lands will be leased out on long-term basis to grow exportable crops"