The World Bank unit's "action plan" is an attempt to respond to its own compliance advisor's recommendations on issues ranging from land grabs to sexual exploitation on the plantation.

El grupo agroindustrial, ya acusado de acaparamiento de tierras baldías, ha logrado certificar más de 11 mil créditos de carbono en hectáreas dedicadas a la conservación de la biodiversidad en el Vichada, Colombia

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.

Una investigación del Registro Agrario Nacional en México reveló que 36 personas poseen alrededor de 63 mil ejidos que abarcan más de 39 mil hectáreas, divididas en 21 mil 695 parcelas útiles para las actividades agropecuarias o forestales y 41 mil 385 predios destinados a la urbanización y construcción de vivienda.

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.

Le village Mbonjo situé dans l’arrondissement de Fiko, département du Moungo est envahi par les plantations de la Socapalm. On retrouve le palmier à huile jusque derrière les maisons d’habitation.

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.

Pese a la ofensiva arancelaria de Donald Trump, el sector agrícola de España y Portugal sigue acaparando el interés de los fondos nacionales e internacionales, a los que se ha sumado un actor especialmente relevante: Farmland Reserve, una compañía de inversiones dependiente de la Iglesia mormona que se alza como el quinto mayor propietario institucional de tierras agrícolas de Estados Unidos, con cerca de 690.000 hectáreas en el país norteamericano.

SENEGINDIA a transféré son activité agricole à la société SWAMI AGRI.

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.

Operando em 26 unidades, espalhados por sete estados brasileiros, a SLC Agrícola ampliou sua área com novas aquisições e ultrapassou os 800.000 hectares de área plantada; Em apenas uma semana, a companhia assinou praticamente R$ 1,7 bilhão em M&As.

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

Companhia dos Logemann comprou duas fazendas da Mitsui, assumindo o “filé mignon” em Minas Gerais a um preço extremamente atrativo

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.

In order to apply for a licence from the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, private equity owned SanLei Premium Trout had to show how local communities would benefit. But the Catchment Resilience Fund initiative seems to have crumbled after less than a year.

For four days on 11-14 March 2025, more than 250 indigenous peoples and local communities affected by Indonesia National Strategic Projects, as well as various civil society organisations, gathered in Merauke, South Papua to challenge the mega projects for rice, sugarcane, oil palm as well as others that will grab million of hectares of community and indigenous territories across the country.

In a bid to enhance investment opportunities for Egyptians abroad, the New Egyptian Countryside Development Company has launched a new initiative titled “Your Farm in Egypt,” in collaboration with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Migration and Egyptians Abroad Affairs.

The Egyptian government and a Chinese business delegation are planning for the establishment of an agricultural investment project in the New Valley Governorate through “China Railway,” one of China’s major companies, to produce potatoes, wheat, and soybeans.

L'organisation faîtière des agences catholiques de développement en Europe et en Amérique du Nord appelle à un arrêt immédiat des projets de crédits carbone sur les sols mis en œuvre parmi les Maasaï du nord de la Tanzanie, après des processus jugés « douteux ».

Study finds that two large-scale carbon projects on the grazing lands of the Maasai in Tanzania have committed serious abuses and make traditional grazing practices impossible.

Une série de rapports, publiés le 14 février 2025 par Earthworm Foundation, révèlent de nouvelles allégations de harcèlement sexuel et de spoliation des terres entre autres dans les plantations de la Société camerounaise des palmeraies (Socapalm), filiale de Socfin.

Vatel Capital est le premier fonds d’investissement en foncier agricole à avoir été référencé en unité de compte, disponible au sein des contrats d’assurance vie en France

Amo Farm Sieberer Hatchery Ltd says it has acquired the 1,800 acres to develop a 1.2 million broiler capacity, establish a state-of-the-art broiler processing plant, a beef processing facility, multiple hatcheries, fish ponds, and a dam.

The Indonesian government took over management of palm oil plantations seized from a corporation facing a graft probe, under an initiative that may be extended to other troubled commodity-production sites.