The vast majority of over two million landowners who rented out 347.8 million acres of agricultural land in 2024 were non-farming landlords. About 5% of the nearly 900 million US farmland acres, or about 43 million acres, will change hands in the next five years.
- Progressive Farmer
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16 Mar 2026
A portfolio of four southern Queensland dryland cropping farms have been sold at auction by the US-based private equity firm Proterra Investment Partners for $19m combined.
The Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, has announced that the state government is ready to sign an MOU with Presco Plc for a proposed $200 million investment in a 14,000-hectare oil palm plantation.
AcreTrader, a farmland investment platform, announces the launch of the Proterra AcreTrader Farmland Fund LP, an open-ended investment vehicle focusing on investment-grade farmland assets in key US agricultural regions.
Amid deepening land inequality and ecological crisis, the 4Rs - land recognition, redistribution, restitution and regulation - are pillars for democratizing land and advancing systemic transformation, writes Jun Borras
The document produced by legal experts of the Green Development Advocates relating to the illegalities of the acquisition and management of some land spaces around the Apouh a Ngog community by SOCAPALM was at the centre of discussions at the Prime Minister’s Office Wednesday 5 March 2026.
Residents, farmers, and Indigenous groups demand an end to land grabbing by an oil palm plantation company owned by the Consunji Group and call on the government rehabilitate their damaged forests and agricultural lands.
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.
SGX-listed Hong Lai Huat Group Limited has completed the sale of its entire agriculture business in Cambodia, which includes a 10,000 ha cassava plantation in Aoral District, Kampong Speu Province.
Origin Tech Group has launched a new agricultural investment platform known as Corporate Farm, designed to mobilise private and institutional capital into large-scale farming operations across Nigeria.
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, has excluded companies tied to billionaire Vincent Bolloré from its investment portfolio, citing “human rights violations,” after a review and following reports of abuses at rubber plantations he co-owns in Africa.
The world’s largest pension fund has revealed that it sold its shares in the Bolloré group, a powerful French conglomerate, due to unresolved concerns about “serious human rights violations” at a plantation company partly owned by the group.