The $5 million investment is the first in what Patricof Co. stated will be a broader farmland strategy that will ultimately include investments in four more US farms.

Great seasons SMC Limited is one of the multinationals that have forcefully evicted thousands of local people and criminalized activities of smallholder farmers resisting illegal evictions in the Kiryandongo district.

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.

Episode 1 of a new podcast that highlights the different layers of oppression women face once industrial plantations invade their territories.

PLS LESB will partner with Japan's Millennium Agriculture Technology and MyFarm Inc, Japan to develop up to 1,000 hectares of durian plantations in Pahang, Malaysia.

Cambodian government awarded a new Economic Land Concession (ELC) in March 2022 for the first time in nearly a decade despite an existing moratorium on ELCs. The new ELC site comprises more than 5,000 hectares of forest land in Stung Treng province.

Nigeria's Ekiti State government says 263 farming families were compensated for lands that were taken to establish a joint venture dairy farm with the South Africa-based dairy company Promisador.

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.

The case of a community land rights defender in Mubende district forced to buy food for a family of 13 people for the last five years.

The Guyanese president asked India to send a team of experts to set up millets farm in Guyana and promised all help in production and promotion of millets in the Caribbean and Latin American countries

Wisconsin Farmers Union says that it's very difficult to find out who owns the investment firms that have been acquiring farmland in the state.