Cashed-up Australian and overseas buyers are battling for prime farmland as agriculture values surge toward a record $100bn, ...

Explore the critical food security challenges in West Africa. Learn how climate change, conflict, and poverty impact the Sahel and discover localized solutions.

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

JAKARTA — Allegations of illegal activity and land-grabbing against Indonesia’s second-largest palm oil company continue to mount as a new report reveals the firm’s violations appear to be more ...

Some of the most pristine farmland in California can be yours, at least by proxy, in just a matter of minutes. That’s the promise that AcreTrader, a company with the mission of simplifying investing ...

The multiple crises that happened in 2008 – financial, energy, water and political – as well as the food production shocks that followed, triggered the start of a new global land rush. There is broad ...

Trinitas Partners had plans to transform the world with almonds. The world had other ideas. When we last saw the Redwood City, Calif., venture capital firm, which specializes in large-scale ...

Once a year, Andrea Barrientos, a 75-year-old subsistence farmer in the Peruvian Andes, works free of charge for the world’s richest person. She does that by joining dozens of people from her village ...

The Mostaqbal Misr (Future of Egypt) Project is one of several giant land-reclamation and agricultural-production schemes aimed at achieving self-sufficiency in food, boosting farm exports, and ...

As storms battered California in March, the state’s inland breadbasket erupted with almond blossoms. It happens every year. The Central Valley—the source of 40% of America’s fruit and nuts—explodes in ...

In a small room at a safe house owned by a human rights group in rural Liberia, away from prying eyes and passing ears, Decontee explains why she quit her job on the Salala plantation. It was hard ...

Sarah Bakali was sinking in floodwater, an infant in her arms and a toddler clinging to her back. She had fled when water started pouring into her home in Kanseche, Malawi, at about 8pm that night, ...