Surexport is a leading fully-integrated producer of strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries with land in Spain, Morocco, Portugal, and Kenya
Mirova's LDN Fund has raised $208 million from public institutions and private investors and invested in companies like the Swiss company Pamoja which operates nut farms in Kenya and Tanzania
- Fintech Global
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06 December 2023
When Dominion Farms Ltd pulled out from the Yala Swamp, residents hoped to get their lands and water back. But the lands were signed over to a bank that then transferred it to a sugar cane plantation company on a 99 year lease.
New report by the Oakland Institute examines the African Forestry Impact Platform bankrolled by European development finance institutions, Japanese oil interests, and an Australian investment firm.
- Oakland Institute
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30 August 2023
Twiga Foods boss Peter Njonjo transferred 20,000 acres handed to him by President William Ruto’s administration in the Galana-Kulalu scheme to his private company, the Business Daily has established.
- Business Daily
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29 August 2023
Security guards working for the multinational fruit company Del Monte have been accused of running over two teenagers at a pineapple farm in Kenya that is currently at the centre of an investigation into alleged human rights abuses.
Co-operative societies plan to lease part of the 500,000 acres of land that the government is seeking to give out to potential investors under a public-private partnership for large-scale agriculture.
- Business Daily
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26 June 2023
1MT Nation OU, which restores lands in Africa and develops carbon credits, has set a mission to restore at least one million hectares of land by 2030 by planting local bamboo species.
- Baltic Times
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19 June 2023
The High Court found Sarrai Group of Uganda and its directors in contempt of court for continuing operations at Mumias Sugar after their controversial lease was canceled last year.
The Ministry of Agriculture had signed over 500,000 acres of land for the implementation of the Land Commercialisation Initiative (LCI) in Kenya
Cette démarche s’inscrit dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre de « l’Initiative de commercialisation des terres » (LCI) en coopération avec la Société financière internationale (SFI)
- Agence Ecofin
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06 June 2023
Selu is a Special Purpose Vehicle that involves Campos, a farm management company overseeing over 600,000 acres of farmland in Latin America, and AgCo, a US-based precision agri-tech company.