US

JD Vance funded AcreTrader. Here’s why that matters.
- Civil Eats
- 18 September 2024
The real estate platform streamlines investing in US farmland. Now farms are fast becoming a portfolio staple for investors worldwide.
Microsoft buys 234,000 rainforest restoration carbon removal credits from Toroto
- ESG Today
- 11 September 2024
The agreement will cover ecosystem restoration of up to 47,000 hectares of tropical rainforest in the state of Campeche, in the Calakmul region of southeastern Mexico
Farmland LP announces investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund to support regenerative agriculture
- Business Wire
- 11 September 2024
Farmland LP announces an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund in Farmland LP’s Vital Farmland III LLC, which will develop Soil Carbon Credits on its 18,500-acre farm portfolio in the US.
Sénégal : Les travailleurs des Fermes de la Téranga interpellent Sonko et demande le limogeage du PCA
- Sénégal Direct
- 09 September 2024
Les travailleurs des Fermes de la Teranga, anciennement Senhuile-Senethanol au Sénégal, demande le limogeage du président du conseil d'administration Gora Seck pour non paiement des salaires
How last year’s wildfires reignited a battle over water rights on Maui
- Mother Jones
- 06 September 2024
For more than a century, corporations have controlled the Hawaiian island’s water. That could be changing.
Conservation Resources achieves final close for inaugural farmland fund
- Business Wire
- 04 September 2024
Conservation Resource Partners announced today the closing of its inaugural North American farmland private equity fund. with investment from institutional as well as high net worth investors, from both North America and Europe.
Australian Food & Agriculture sells vast NSW portfolio in $780m deal
- Beef Central
- 02 September 2024
Privately-owned Australian Food & Agriculture Company has sold its 13 New South Wales farms spanning 225,405 ha to NASDAQ-listed Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Corporation for $780 million.
Hedge fund's $100M Arizona farmland buy stirs fears of water grab
- Arizona Daily Star
- 26 August 2024
New York-based hedge fund Water Asset Management LLC spent $100 million to buy farmland and water rights in Western Arizona, stirring concerns about a future “water grab” from that rural area and of corporate control over a major groundwater source.
Africa’s big food opportunity
- CNBC
- 24 August 2024
African Food Security, a New York-based company, says it will grow maize on 305,000 ha in Cameroon and and 335,000 in the DR Congo, with plans to eventually reach 1 million ha in Africa.
The long road to getting land back in Mexico
- Ojalá
- 23 August 2024
San Isidro is not just a land grab case of a company being favored by the state. Here, the death of the people carries the name of a transnational-- Amway.
Koch invests in massive land grab from West African herders
- Exposed
- 21 August 2024
An investment arm of the largest private company in the U.S. — Koch, Inc — is investing in an agricultural business venture that will generate carbon credits while pulling local natural resources from almost 2.9 million hectares of land in West Africa.
Schweppes Zimbabwe to invest US$28 million in citrus farming expansion
- Zimbabwe Mail
- 20 August 2024
The Zimbabwean government has allocated 4,000 hectares of land to Schweppes, where the company plans to cultivate its own citrus.