Kenya

The partnership is between UK investment group United Green and Kisumu County 42 Lake Ventures Company will include primary farms that will integrate with 100,000 hectares of surrounding farming communities via a unique smallholder farmer scheme.

Stanbic Bank has received the nod to proceed with a piecemeal auction of assets of one of Kenya’s largest flower farms, Karuturi Limited to recover a Sh1.6 billion debt.

Kenya has offered Bangladesh to take advantage of the African nation's vast farmland for food production as Bangladesh has developed good expertise and demonstrated immense success in the field.

The National Land Commission team will hold public hearings for three days in Siaya on plans to allocate the Yala Swamp to a private investor.

“Growing row crops is an excellent way for Fresh Del Monte to leverage its idle lands,” said Mohammad Abu-Ghazaleh, chairman and CEO, Fresh Del Monte.

Kenyan aquaculture company Victory Farms, East Africa’s largest commercial fish farmer, has raised $5 million in private equity funding to expand operations into Rwanda, Tanzania and the DRC.

In the yesteryears, international investors trooped to the Kenyan lakeside town in search of land to grow flowers but it is no longer the case.

The community wants Raila to know that Yala Swamp belongs to the people and that court is the best legal means to settle the dispute.

Should Kenyans allow people to run Mumias Sugar who are accused of mass eviction by their sugarcane plantation companies in neighbouring Uganda?

The High Court in Siaya, Kenya, has suspended the intended allocation of Yala Swamp land by the National Land Commission to Lake Agro Limited. “The land under Yala Swamp is yet to be registered as community land so that community around the area are allocated their share,” petitioners say.

In Kenya, a row is brewing between local leaders, members of the community, and Siaya county government following a notice to allocate land within Yala Swamp to a new investor, Lake Agro Limited.

Cash-strapped Karuturi Flowers in Naivasha is back in court in a bid to stop receiver managers from auctioning its property over Sh1.8 billion debt