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Dominant players in Australia’s rural property market revealed
- Weekly Times
- 30 April 2025
Corporate-backed farming groups from North America and the UK have emerged as key players in the nation’s farmland market in the past year.
Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal
- MIT
- 25 April 2025
The tech behemoth is betting that planting millions of eucalyptus trees in Brazil will be the path to a greener future. Some ecologists and local residents are far less sure.
Australia: Tasmanian farmland is seeing a hedge-fund buying spree—locals fear climate investors not tourists
- DMN
- 23 April 2025
The bigger question—one Tasmania must answer soon—is how much of its food-bowl can be outsourced to balance sheets before community cohesion snaps.
NGOs at the service of plundering territories: the Earthworm Foundation case
- WRM
- 23 April 2025
Under the guise of ‘conflict mediation’ and community empowerment, the work of certain corporate NGOs results in communities continuing without access to and control over their lands, and in strengthening destructive production models.
Brazil's would-be cocoa king aims to revolutionize industry with giant farm
- Reuters
- 22 April 2025
The Schmidt Agricola family business is planning a 10,000-hectare cocoa farm in the Brazilian state of Bahia, where similar super-sized cocoa farms are also under development in partnership with large cocoa companies like Cargill and Barry Callebaut.
The Rubber Barons: Sex for work allegations hang over Socfin plantations supplying top tiremakers
- Bloomberg
- 16 April 2025
Hubert Fabri and Vincent Bolloré own plantations accused of land appropriation and labor abuses. Their company says it has taken steps to improve matters, but a trip to West Africa shows sexual coercion claims remain widespread.
NSW cropping farms sold for $32m-plus to foreign buyer
- Weekly Times
- 14 April 2025
The investment arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has bought a fourth major Aussie cropping aggregation.
NSDC, Chinese firm sign $1bn sugar production deal in Nigeria
- NAN
- 13 April 2025
The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) and Chinese conglomerate, SINOMACH have agreed to jointly develop a large-scale sugarcane cultivation and processing project in Nigeria.
‘I bought their dream’: How a US company’s huge land deal in Senegal went bust
- The Columbian
- 06 April 2025
Rusting pipes in a barren field and unpaid workers are what remain after a U.S. company promised to turn a huge piece of land in Senegal — about twice the size of Paris — into an agricultural project and create thousands of jobs.
Land grab: Tozzi Green’s carbon plantations in Madagascar
- REDD Monitor
- 26 Mar 2025
Dama Jean Dare Ratolonjanahary, community activist and co-founder of the Comite de Defense des Terres, told New Lines that, “Carbon credits are an excuse to continue destroying nature in exchange for money”.
Indigenous communities in Indonesia demand halt to land-grabbing government projects
- Mongabay
- 26 Mar 2025
Hundreds of Indigenous people and civil society groups in Indonesia are demanding an end to government projects that have seized their lands, fueled violence, and stripped them of their rights.
Lawson Grains buys Bulgandra Aggregation
- Grain Central
- 26 Mar 2025
New Agriculture manages the Lawson Grains portfolio on behalf of its investor, Canadian pension fund Alberta Investment Management Corporation, or AIMCo.
The case against a carbon credit farm in Madagascar
- New Lines Magazine
- 24 Mar 2025
The Italian multinational Tozzi Green has begun planting trees on land that local residents claim was stolen from them
Mormon Church buys three-farm North Star Aggregation
- Grain Central
- 17 Mar 2025
The Utah-based Mormon Church has added a large-scale dryland cropping operation in the renowned Golden Triangle region of northern New South Wales to its growing Australian agricultural portfolio.
Merauke declaration: Indigeneous communities unite to reject PSN projects
- IBP
- 17 Mar 2025
Over 250 indigenous peoples, local communities and various civil society organizations from all over Indonesia announced the Merauke Declaration on March 11-14, 2025 in Merauke, South Papua, rejecting various National Strategic Projects (PSN) throughout Indonesia.
US giant quits NT cattle station amid carbon confusion
- AFR
- 16 Mar 2025
A global commodities trader and carbon player, part-owned by funds giant Brookfield, is quitting a 450,000-hectare Northern Territory cattle station where it hoped to set up an offset scheme, amid confusion and delays over new carbon rules.
Indonesia to run palm plantations seized from troubled firm
- Bloomberg
- 10 Mar 2025
The Indonesian government took over management of palm oil plantations seized from a corporation facing a graft probe, under an initiative that may be extended to other troubled commodity-production sites.
Foreign investors snap up Rawlinna sheep station
- The Australian
- 04 Mar 2025
The famed Consolidated Pastoral Company, now owned by English financier Guy Hands, has bought Australia’s biggest sheep station Rawlinna after it was put on the block when tycoon Andrew Forrest last year dumped plans to buy it for a renewable energy project.
Open letter to Socapalm, Socfinaf and Socfin
- Collective
- 17 February 2025
Since 2021, Socapalm – majority-owned by Socfinaf, a Luxembourg holding itself part owned by the Bolloré Group – has been replanting palms to rejuvenate its plantation at Edéa, in Cameroon, creating tremendous difficulty for neighbouring villagers.
Lettre ouverte à Socapalm, Socfinaf et Socfin
- Collectif
- 17 February 2025
Depuis 2021, la Socapalm – qui est détenue majoritairement par la Socfinaf, une holding luxembourgeoise détenue en partie par le groupe Bolloré – replante des palmiers pour rajeunir sa plantation à Edéa, au Cameroun, créant d'énormes difficultés pour les communautés riveraines.
Uninhabited isles bought for new salmon farm sites
- BBC
- 17 February 2025
Fish farming giant Mowi has bought two uninhabited islands off Scotland's west coast for the siting of new salmon farms.
Indonesia: Fear and raiders in Papua
- The Gecko Project
- 14 February 2025
How thousands of Indonesian soldiers are forcing through a vast agricultural project in indigenous lands and forests
Uganda: Palm oil plantation expansion
- Witness Radio
- 12 February 2025
A disturbing alliance between a palm oil company, district officials, and a college school is actively seizing land from farming communities in Buvuma district for their own profit
Inclusive carbon land deals?
- GRAIN
- 27 January 2025
As 2024 drew to a close, the International Land Coalition widely circulated a new report. The report argues that data supplied by ILC partners, combined with improved land rights, can turn today's massive land grab for carbon offset projects into a win-win situation. This is delusional and wrong.
Canada: Foreign ownership of Saskatchewan farmland remains a concern for producers
- Regina Leader-Post
- 30 December 2024
"Whether it is a farmer or an investor, they are now viewing land as an asset class to get rich off of speculation, not the productive capability of that land."
The trees of discord: from Emilia Romagna to Madagascar for carbon credits
- LeDéfi.Mg
- 11 December 2024
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.
Merauke food estate to become Indonesia’s sugar and bioethanol hub
- Business Post
- 19 November 2024
The Indonesian Ministry of Investment is planning to transform the Food Estate in Merauke, South Papua, into an integrated sugar industry hub.
Indonesia’s Prabowo revives transmigration, deploys troops to Papua to ensure food security
- Benar News
- 18 November 2024
Indonesia's new president is literally flooding Papua with new military troops to provide security at a 2 million-hectare food plantation being carved out of jungle outside of Merauke.
Sudan scraps $6 billion UAE port deal, citing RSF support
- Sudan Tribune
- 05 November 2024
In addition to the greenfield port north of Port Sudan, the project would have included a 400,000-acre agricultural development in the Nile region, hundreds of miles of new roadways, a large free trade zone
Swedish pension fund to sell three Victorian dairy farms
- The Weekly Times
- 04 November 2024
A trio of dairy farms spanning a combined 570 hectares in the state’s north have been listed for sale after more than a decade in the hands of Swedish owners.