Financialised land grabbing is driving Welsh farmland in the direction of a capitalist green transition that renders agrarian populations surplus to the needs of capital, and in the process begins a change in the character of agrarian social relations according to the dictates of finance capital and climate rentiers
Tech giant Apple is among a pool of global investors pouring millions into Queensland's macadamia nut industry, looking to secure carbon-saving "natural capital assets".
Foreign investors held registered interests in 50.262 million hectares of Australian agricultural land at 30 June 2025, according to new data tabled in Federal Parliament.
The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority has signed an MoU with UK‑based Asset Green Limited for a $496 million large‑scale integrated dairy operation that will combine a 20,000 hectare forage farm and a 10,000‑milking cow dairy barn.
The 22,000-hectare Rushy Lagoon property has been a major dairy and beef producer for decades, but pine plantations could be in its near future, as UK's largest forestry asset manager has made a bid for it.
London-based food and agriculture investor, Cibus Capital, is preparing to offload its 1000ha orchard portfolio, capable of producing 3.7 million kilograms of almonds annually.
As part of the restoration, the UK company has planted more than 1.8 million trees in Sierra Leone since 2023, and the long-term goal is to plant over 10 million trees across 15,000 hectares of degraded community land.
Esta semana comienzó la marcha a Lago Escondido y la columna de montaña “Juana Azurduy” arrancó su recorrido. La movilización tiene como objetivo denunciar la apropiación de un espejo de agua por el magnate inglés Joe Lewis.
UK-based Brown&Co is trying to sell a large-scale 44,000 ha cattle farm in the Paraguayan Chaco, “La Huella” it acquired in 2008.
Brisbane-headquartered CPC now adds a substantial sheep flock to the roughly 300,000 head of cattle carrying capacity it now has across more than nine properties, covering more than 3.2 million hectares of Australia.
One of Australia’s largest cattle producers, Consolidated Pastoral Company, now owned by UK billionaire Guy Hands, has acquired a 711,638-hectare sheep station in Western Australia for $35 million amid the company’s rapid ramp-up into the sector.
The initiative dubbed “Tiisi Tenga” (Land of Trees) is expected to restore about 200,000 hectares of degraded lands across 20 communities, mostly along the White Volta River, with a target to sequester approximately 3.4 tonnes of carbon per hectare.
