A new joint venture between Nippon Steel Trading and Energreen Australia will establish a large scale pongamia plantation near Emerald, aimed at supporting biofuel production and strengthening trade ties with Japan.

A palm oil company is ramping up its destruction of forests that are home to critically endangered orangutans in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on the island of Borneo, according to satellite imagery and government sources.

Uzbekistan's Kashkadarya Region plans to deepen cooperation with Belarus' Vitebsk Region in the field of food security and launch a major beef production project, the Head of the Department of Investments, Industry, and Trade of Uzbekistan's Kashkadarya Regional Administration, Shahrier Toshmurod Khamzaev, announced.

Saudi-Arabian farming company Fondomonte wants a judge to pause a lawsuit against it, arguing new groundwater protections could resolve the issues in the case. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes disagrees.

Kenya's Irrigation Secretary said the government will be promoting the utilisation of idle land by opening it up to private investors for agricultural development. "If you go to the coastal belt, cutting across the Tana River, we have more than two million acres, which have been lying idle for a long time."

The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority has signed an MoU with UK‑based Asset Green Limited for a $496 million large‑scale integrated dairy operation that will combine a 20,000 hectare forage farm and a 10,000‑milking cow dairy barn.

The Mauritius-based subsidiary of the Export Trading Group acquires dairy processor Dendairy, including its two dairy farms in Kwekwe and network of contract farmers.

The Company has mapped an initial area of 5,000 ha and the tree planting project could be expanded to at least 25,000 ha in total size.

As Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf state's strategic farmland investments across Africa face a reality check

The vast majority of over two million landowners who rented out 347.8 million acres of agricultural land in 2024 were non-farming landlords. About 5% of the nearly 900 million US farmland acres, or about 43 million acres, will change hands in the next five years.

A portfolio of four southern Queensland dryland cropping farms have been sold at auction by the US-based private equity firm Proterra Investment Partners for $19m combined.

The Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, has announced that the state government is ready to sign an MOU with Presco Plc for a proposed $200 million investment in a 14,000-hectare oil palm plantation.