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Alan Kessler calls for digital leap to transform African agriculture
- Alan Kessler calls for digital leap to transform African agriculture
- 24 June 2025
Alan Kessler, a leading figure in agricultural development and innovation, has issued a bold call for a “digital leap” to drive transformation across Africa’s farming sector. According to Kessler, incremental improvements are no longer sufficient to address the complex and urgent challenges facing farmers across the continent. Instead, he urges stakeholders to embrace a full-scale digital revolution to modernize agriculture and enhance food security.
Food Insecurity Situation in Africa
- Food Insecurity Situation in Africa
- 10 June 2025
According to the United Nations, over 36 million people are struggling to meet their basic food needs, a number projected to rise to over 52 million during the June–August 2025 lean season, including almost three million in emergency conditions (IPC4) and 2,600 people in Mali at risk of facing catastrophic hunger (IPC5).
US: Michigan hopes to limit foreign land ownership. In UP, it’s already too late
- The Bridge
- 22 May 2025
The Rohatyn Group, a private equity firm based in New York, is now the largest owner of agricultural land in the state of Michigan, making acquisitions through offshore companies registered in Singapore
US: A new type of investor is buying up California wineries. Here’s why it’s controversial
- SF Chronicle
- 17 May 2025
Private equity firms — notorious for buying up private companies, often with the goal of selling them quickly — have lately accelerated their investments in California wineries, targeting famous Napa Valley estates.
Indigenous land disputes cloud Kenya’s carbon market ambitions
- Climate Home News
- 15 May 2025
Protest by community members opposed to a soil carbon project on Indigenous-owned grazing land prevented the signing of a 40-year lease on some 68,000 hectares of land as part of the much larger Kajiado Rangeland Carbon Project.
Dominant players in Australia’s rural property market revealed
- Weekly Times
- 30 April 2025
Corporate-backed farming groups from North America and the UK have emerged as key players in the nation’s farmland market in the past year.
Nigeria: Ekiti women protest over alleged destruction of farmlands by agric firm
- Premium Times
- 28 April 2025
The women of the Odo-Oro community in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State protested over the alleged destruction of their farmlands by an agriculture firm, Agbeyewa Farms. “They are destroying our lands, they are cutting down our cocoa farms, cutting down our palm trees and destroying what is left of what our forefathers gave to us."
The Rubber Barons: Sex for work allegations hang over Socfin plantations supplying top tiremakers
- Bloomberg
- 16 April 2025
Hubert Fabri and Vincent Bolloré own plantations accused of land appropriation and labor abuses. Their company says it has taken steps to improve matters, but a trip to West Africa shows sexual coercion claims remain widespread.
US: Gerawan sues Maine pension system for details behind Prima Wawona’s collapse, bankruptcy
- San Joaquin Valley Sun
- 16 April 2025
Prima Wawona, the one-time largest peach producer in the world, financially rotted in the few years after private equity players took control. A former owner wants to know how.
NSW cropping farms sold for $32m-plus to foreign buyer
- Weekly Times
- 14 April 2025
The investment arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has bought a fourth major Aussie cropping aggregation.
Agbeyewa Farms, NSCDC Ekiti State Command strengthen ties for enhanced security
- Cavista
- 14 April 2025
The Ekiti State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) has pledged to enhance its collaboration with Cavista Holdings and Agbeyewa Farms to fulfill its core mandate of securing critical national assets and infrastructure, including farmland security through the Agro Rangers Squad.
‘I bought their dream’: How a US company’s huge land deal in Senegal went bust
- The Columbian
- 06 April 2025
Rusting pipes in a barren field and unpaid workers are what remain after a U.S. company promised to turn a huge piece of land in Senegal — about twice the size of Paris — into an agricultural project and create thousands of jobs.