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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.
Sueños marchitos en Senegal: cuando las promesas agrícolas de inversión extranjera no alimentan a nadie
- En Pelotas
- 01 April 2025
El periodista Jack Thompson investiga el caso del fallido proyecto agrícola de African Agriculture en Niéti Yone, Senegal, una historia que comienza con ambición, promesas de empleo y desarrollo... y acaba con deudas, tierras improductivas y una comunidad fracturada.
Just Climate secures $175m to invest in agricultural decarbonization
- Valor
- 18 Mar 2025
Al Gore-backed private equity firm Just Climate has secured its first round of funding from two major global investors to begin investing in solutions aimed at reducing agricultural emissions.
Mormon Church buys three-farm North Star Aggregation
- Grain Central
- 17 Mar 2025
The Utah-based Mormon Church has added a large-scale dryland cropping operation in the renowned Golden Triangle region of northern New South Wales to its growing Australian agricultural portfolio.
El fondo agrícola de los mormones desafía a los aranceles de Trump y se lanza a comprar tierras en España
- Radio Huancavilca
- 17 Mar 2025
Pese a la ofensiva arancelaria de Donald Trump, el sector agrícola de España y Portugal sigue acaparando el interés de los fondos nacionales e internacionales, a los que se ha sumado un actor especialmente relevante: Farmland Reserve, una compañía de inversiones dependiente de la Iglesia mormona que se alza como el quinto mayor propietario institucional de tierras agrícolas de Estados Unidos, con cerca de 690.000 hectáreas en el país norteamericano.
Blueberry farming expands in Laos with new investment
- FreshPlaza
- 03 Mar 2025
Australia-based Costa Group has launched a new blueberry farming project on the Bolaven Plateau in Laos, starting with 17 hectares of crops at Paksong.