Efforts are underway to expand the Omi Dam for the cultivation of 4,000 hectares of rice to support the Alape Rice Mill and a partnership with Silvex International will enable full mechanized and year-round rice farming in the area.
The Jah Agric Farm in Bayaba, Gambia, initiated by Jah Oil Company, is to farm rice, potato, and onion imports on 1,200 hectares, with plans to expand to 15,000 hectares nationwide.
Future of Egypt for Sustainable Development, affiliated with the Egyptian Air Force, was entrusted with reclaiming 1.5 million acres of land across the country, despite the Air Force’s lack of any role in agricultural activities.
Selu Limited, a special-purpose vehicle tasked with transforming the Galana-Kulalu project, has been allocated 20,000 acres within the scheme to produce 720,000 bags of maize and 160,000 bags of soybeans annually over the next 30 years.
As millions in public money flows towards the planting of trees, some are also raising concerns about the environmental credentials of many schemes.
Set to span 50 hectares in the Hassi El-Gara commune, located in the southern region of El-Meniaa, this project represents a significant leap in agricultural collaboration between the two nations.
Big farming projects in North Africa’s deserts are presented as a response to food insecurity. But aquifers will be depleted and costs will be high. While small farmers are pushed out, there's no guarantee that production will be for local people.
The world's leading private equity fund has just invested in Hasfarm Holdings, a flower export giant in Da Lat, Vietnam, marking a new step in the investment trend in the agricultural and food technology sector in Vietnam.
Private equity-backed reforestation startup re.green has signed a partnership with Agro Penido to restore 600 hectares of land owned by the Brazilian agribusiness firm with native species from the Amazon rainforest
The biofuel project led by Uganda'a Jitmat and Face Power of the US will cultivate sweet sorghum on 6,000 ha using a nucleus farm and surrounding smallholder farming model.
Japan's No.2 crude oil refiner, Idemitsu Kosan, will begin a trial plantation of the non-edible oilseed tree crop Pongamia in Australia to assess its potential as a feedstock for aviation fuel, in cooperation with the US company Terviva.
The food estate in Merauke - spanning more than two million hectares - seems set to join the long list of such projects that have failed since the concept was first proposed in 2010, only to leave behind broad damage to the rights of indigenous peoples and the environment, including the loss of customary land belongs to 40,000 indigenous people.
