Better Cotton has released an update to the ‘action plan’ it put in place to curb unsustainable and illegal practices in Brazil’s cotton sector but it fails to even acknowledge the reality of land grabbing that has underpinned the sector’s expansion in recent decades at the expense of native ecosystems and the livelihoods of traditional communities.
Despite persistent rumors, only 4% of Chinese investment in Uzbekistan goes into agriculture. Foreign investors cannot purchase land, it can only be leased for a maximum of 25 years through open auctions.
Al Gore-backed private equity firm Just Climate has secured its first round of funding from two major global investors to begin investing in solutions aimed at reducing agricultural emissions.
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.
ATGRO SCR already has two assets in its portfolio: an investment in pistachio plantations, with more than 3,200 hectares, and Ecosac, Peru’s second-largest exporter of seedless table grapes.
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.
Mitsui & Co announces the sale of all of the farmland owned by its Brazilian subsidiary Agricola Xingu to the Brazil farming giant SLC Agrícola S.A.
According to Cambodian media, the Ratanakiri Provincial Information Bureau recently issued a notice announcing the approval of 17 foreign-funded enterprises to obtain economic land concessions (ELC) in the province, covering agricultural planting, agro-industrial integration and beef cattle breeding. Among foreign companies that have obtained economic land concessions, Vietnamese companies dominate, followed by Chinese and Indian companies. In addition, 10 local companies have also obtained land investment with a total area of 146,366 hectares.
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.
Members of the Louis-Dreyfus family behind the eponymous global grain firm have sold their share of Russian agricultural firm RZ Agro, which farms on an area of over 100,000 ha in southern Russia, to co-owner Steppe Agroholding
Suara penolakan dan perlawanan atas berbagai Proyek Strategis Nasional (PSN) bermasalah bergema dari Merauke, Papua Selatan, provinsi paling timur Indonesia yang tengah disasar proyek cetak sawah dan kebun tebu warisan pemerintahan Presiden Joko Widodo, dan kini dilanjutkan Presiden Prabowo Subianto.
The latest report on Chinese investors buying protected forest land to expand their durian plantations is worrying. This is more than just an illegal land grab, however. Soon, the whole durian supply chain will feel the impact. These blatant land grabs must be stopped with a sense of urgency.
