British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, today announced a €30 million investment in MHP, Ukraine’s leading agribusiness.
The meeting focused on strategic projects aimed at boosting food security and modernising agriculture in Libya. Both sides discussed proposals for large-scale initiatives involving advanced technologies and public-private partnerships.
- Libya Observer
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14 July 2025
The Norrenberger Financial Group has disclosed that it plans to cultivate 1,000 hectares of arable land in Kano State as part of its support towards boosting food production and ensuring food security in the country.
In May this year, a subsidiary of the Italian oil company Eni began producing agri-feedstock with other edible crops, such as sunflower and soy, which could have a negative impact on local food security.
One of the country’s biggest milk producers – backed by the Rich Lister Perich family and China’s New Hope Group – has sold one of its major farms in Victoria’s north for close to $55 million.
The Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC), Anjuman Mazareen Punjab (AMP) and Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (HKP) jointly raised their concerns over the alleged state sponsored push for corporate farming, widespread land grabbing, and the forced eviction of peasants from lands they have cultivated for generations.
- Business Recorder
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12 July 2025
Standard Bank Namibia has invested N$40 million into a large-scale blueberry farming initiative by Namibia Berries, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's Loxworth Capital
The US Department of Agriculture will work with state lawmakers to end farmland purchases "by nationals for countries of concern or other foreign adversaries".
Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman has announced that Indonesia will co-manage 20 thousand hectares of land with Palestine to grow rice and horticultural crops, and send the majority of the produce to the Middle Eastern nation.
The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation owns more than 540,000 acres of land in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, making it the single largest owner of foreign agricultural land in the US state.
A Socfin spokesperson told Mongabay that the collective statement by civil society offers a “broad brush overview” that “understates both the calibrated nature of the EF findings and the tangible progress we have already made.”
KKR, a leading global investment firm, and Aware Super, a leading Australian super fund, announced the signing of definitive agreements under which funds managed by KKR will acquire ProTen Pty Limited (“ProTen”), one of the largest agricultural infrastructure businesses in Australia.
- Business Wire
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01 July 2025