Zambeef will use the funds to upgrade its feed mill, animal housing, purchase new equipment and develop 1,000 hectares of irrigation land, among other activities.

How multinational companies sponsor agribusiness lobby and sustain the dismantling of socio-encironmental reglation in Brazil

There will be plenty more scuffles between local populations and new global landlords. But, according to the Financial Times, such fights are unlikely to stem the tide of land investment.

The oil palm is native to West Africa, where it plays a vital role in food security and local economies, especially for women. But in Sierra Leone, the arrival of an industrial oil palm plantation has threatened all this.

Romanian private equity company Roca Investments, part of Impetum Group, teamed up with RDF - a farming group developed by Romanian businessmen - to form an investment holding company.

The most effective means of countering corporate power is to restore control of the land and agricultural knowledge to the communities who live on and with the land.

Where village land is formalized to establish wildlife management areas or a large-scale agricultural investment, the interests of powerful actors are often prioritized over those of local communities.

Company owned by the US-based Legacy Group acquires 1,389 acres of farmland to bring its total landholdings in Colombia to 6,372 acres, with a total coffee tree count of 7.2 million.

The undertaking will be carried out alongside PSP Investments’ local operating partners on more than 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of farmland and timberland.

Mennonites are linked to expanding farmland acquisition and deforestation - not always with the right paperwork - in the Yucatan Peninsula

An Iranian official says that Venezuela has agreed to provide one million hectares of agricultural land for Iran’s overseas cultivation projects to secure food.

Some community members accuse Socfin of land-grabbing and pollution. We visited the company’s plantation in Malen to find out what’s happening beneath the palm fronds.