Critics say the owner of East Maui Irrigation, Canada's PSP Investments, has a broader goal of acquiring water rights for irrigation at relatively low prices in places where the natural resource is becoming increasingly scarce and eventually selling them for much more.

Warakirri Asset Management announced the expansion of its Warakirri Farmland Fund portfolio through the acquisition of five premium fruit orchard assets in the Cobram region of Victoria, Australia.

New Forests' Global Landscape Opportunities strategy will in forestry, agriculture, and complementary markets such as carbon and biodiversity, in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and other countries in Southeast Asia, Latin American and Africa.

Affected comunities and their allies draw attention to new developments in their struggles for justice around the Socfin/Bolloré plantations

Investors expected to attend the Global AgInvesting event include APG Asset Management, one of Europe’s largest pension investors, Canada’s Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank.

National Family Farm Coalition says legislation would curtail the alarming rising trend of investment firms, pension funds, and other multinational corporations snatching up farmland across the US, often using shady and exploitative practices against food producers and local communities.

Land grabbing did not disappear when the headlines faded. Across the world, corporations, investors and states continue to reshape control over land and resources, often through quieter, normalized processes.

Canadian pension funds PSP Investments and OMERS were earlier named as potential ­bidders for the beef, sheep and cropping operations, along with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

The entire portfolio, including 18,250 megalitres of water entitlements, would be of interest to pension and sovereign wealth funds from Europe, the Middle East or North America, said sources with knowledge of the sale who were not authorised to speak publicly.

A mammoth Canadian pension fund, PSP Investments, has listed 4200 hectares of prime NSW agricultural land for sale across six Central West properties.

US and Canadian pension fund managers have submitted multiple bids for Australia’s $3bn Paraway Pastoral empire, and its vendors are assessing offers for the 4.4 million hectare agricultural business.

La résistance de communautés au Cameroun et en Sierra Leone dont les terres sont envahies depuis des décennies par la société d'huile de palme et de caoutchouc Socfin a infligé un coup économique à cette dernière, nous explique le Mouvement mondial pour les forêts tropicales

Resistance of communities from Cameroon and Sierra Leone whose lands have been invaded by the palm oil and rubber company Socfin for decades dealt an economic blow to the company.

Dana pensiun terbesar di dunia telah mengumumkan bahwa mereka menjual sahamnya di grup Bolloré, sebuah konglomerat Prancis yang kuat, karena kekhawatiran atas “pelanggaran hak asasi manusia yang serius” di perkebunan yang sebagian dimiliki oleh grup tersebut.

Le plus grand fonds de pension au monde a révélé avoir vendu ses parts dans le groupe Bolloré, un puissant conglomérat français, en raison de préoccupations non résolues concernant de « graves violations des droits humains » dans une entreprise agricole détenue en partie par le groupe.

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.

The 636-hectare portfolio, to be named Bunya Orchards, includes 341 hectares of established, high density macadamia orchards and 50 hectares of grazing land earmarked for greenfield macadamia development.

40 South Dairies, a dairy farming joint venture owned in part by the Washington State Investment Board, has emerged as the buyer of the Peltzer family's prized 2683 hectares Logan estate.

As 401(k) plan sponsors look to improve diversification and long-term outcomes, real assets such as timber and farmland are moving closer to the center of the conversation, alongside private markets like real estate and private credit.

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.

New Hampshire-based Conservation Resources has teamed up with Dutch asset manager Achmea Investment Management on a farmland investment fund, Conservation Resources Farmland II, its second North American farmland fund

Interested buyers for the company with beef, sheep and crop farms on 28 pastoral businesses across 4.4 million hectares include Canadian pension funds, US-based institutional investors and institutional investors from continental Europe and high net worth investors.

The largest Swiss pension fund has excluded the Bolloré Group from its investment portfolio due to its links with the Socfin Group.

Citrosuco has announced that Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board will join its shareholder group, as it pursues an orchard expansion programme focused on areas near São Paulo's citrus belt.

One of Europe's top pension fund managers buys two New Zealand forestry plantations stretching over 45,000 ha, citing interest in long term development of carbon sequestration.

An ASX-listed real estate funds manager has pulled off a second major farmland coup in as many weeks, snapping up a portfolio of 22 properties in an off-market deal.

A venture set up by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management has attracted $200 million in new money for a strategy that targets the restoration of land degraded by farming and deforestation.

The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, which gathers UN employees, and pension funds from California are among the investors who have already acquired stakes in the company

Overseas investors could face fewer hurdles to purchase farmland as the Treasurer proposes "automatic approvals" as part of significant reforms.

Chilean farmland investor Toesca and its London-based partner Astarte Capital Partners host an inaugural conference, with presentations from Nuveen Capital and Chile's public pension fund AFP.