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.

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 ...

They are the landowners beneath the soil that grows the potatoes in McDonald’s french fries, the carrots from the world’s largest producer and the onions that Americans sauté every night for dinner.

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 ...

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 ...

The land crises and large scale land grabs affecting many African countries today stem from historical and colonial mistakes whose problems remain. The systems, policies and laws that are being pushed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...