A Swiss-based investment firm promises to combine climate protection, development aid, and returns with a plantation project in Ethiopia. But a local community is raising the alarm

What started as a modest 10-hectare pilot farm in 2020 has now scaled to over 220 hectares under cultivation, with 500 hectares in total under ownership or lease.

A Michigan pension fund wanted to grow the second-largest coffee farm in Hawaii. What happened there demonstrates the perils of investing public workers’ savings in private markets.

Led by Terraformation, Green Lions is launching on an initial area of 8,289 hectares located within the communal forests of Ndélélé and Bétaré-Oya where it will combine native forest restoration and cocoa-based agroforestry.

Dozens of residents from Buol Regency, Central Sulawesi staged a land occupation on a 149-hectare plot of land that they say has been illegally occupied and planted with oil palms by the company PT. Hardaya Inti Plantation.

Local communities have been protesting against the company’s operations for more than a decade.

Au Cameroun, les riveraines de la Socapalm Edéa se disent "écoutées" par des représentants de l'administration territoriale

Australia’s River Capital will invest more than $80 million in a 30,000 hectare eucalyptus plantation project in the Tiwi Islands that is set to become one of the country’s largest nature-based carbon ventures.

For land-based investments, the Patria Latam Reforest Fund I from Pátria Investimentos and the Amazon Reforestation Fund II from Mombak will each receive as much as 500 million reais from BNDESPar.

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.

The investment arm of Ikea’s parent company says it does not want to be seen as a carbon trader, as it storms ahead with farmland purchases despite resistance from local communities.

Foreign investors increased their holdings of property, now owning nearly 46 million acres of farmland throughout the US. This accounts for 3.6% of all agricultural acres and 2% of all land in the United States.