Land grabbing never disappeared but has persisted and transformed, shaped by geopolitics, financialization, and climate policies.

Dutch pension fund ABP bought 173,000 acres of land in August for $462 million and says its mandate now is focused 100% on impact investments within forestry and agriculture

Sekem Holding has signed a contract with the Egyptian government to acquire approximately 23,500 feddans (9,870 hectares) in the Toshka Basin.

Switzerland's Mole Group has received approval for a $1bn agro-industrial project in Mbanza-Ngungu that will span 104,000 hectares under a 99-year land tenure agreement.

Indonesia's newly-launched state farm company says it will either partner with small farmers, renting them equipment, or run its own farms, adding that it stood to receive 225,000 hectares of land from the agriculture ministry by year-end.

The deal covers the establishment and development of a 10,000-hectare pilot farm in Tagadi, located in the Sorobango sub-prefecture

L'accord porte sur le développement d’une ferme pilote sur un domaine de 10 000 hectares à Tagadi, dans la sous-préfecture de Sorobango, pour produire du blé et du riz.

BAF Viet Nam Agriculture Joint Stock Company and China’s Muyuan Foods will build a high-rise farm in Tay Ninh province that will house 64,000 sows and produce 1.6 million market pigs annually, alongside a feed mill with an estimated capacity of 600,000 tonnes per year.

Under the agreement, Rainforest Builder will expand its operations to restore at least 15,000 hectares of degraded forest land, plant over 2 million indigenous trees

The project provides for the phased conversion of up to 300,000 hectares of fallow and pasture lands into irrigated agricultural lands using modern water-saving technologies and infrastructure solutions

Nuveen’s 2025 “EQuilibrium” report, which presents the thoughts of its annual institutional asset allocator survey, found that 11% of survey respondents said they plan to increase their allocations both to farmland and timberland, while 26% and 27%, respectively, said they plan to maintain their allocations.

The Brazilian federal government is studying a proposal to create an agribusiness investment fund (Fiagro) to attract foreign investors willing to become equity partners with farmers seeking to recover and convert degraded pastures.

Nuveen will pursue the acquisition and leasing of high-quality U.S. farmland growing crops ranging from row crops like corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton and vegetables to permanent plantings such as tree nuts, citrus, olives, avocados and wine grapes,

On a trip to Brazil, Nigeria's Delta State Commissioner for Works and Public Information said his government is considering land acquisition mechanisms to support large-scale farming requests from investors and is looking at the model of large-scale Brazilian ranching to "reduce the nomadic nature of animal husbandry"

The fund owns 17 kiwifruit orchards in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty and Northland.