AcreTrader, a farmland investment platform, announces the launch of the Proterra AcreTrader Farmland Fund LP, an open-ended investment vehicle focusing on investment-grade farmland assets in key US agricultural regions.
Amid deepening land inequality and ecological crisis, the 4Rs - land recognition, redistribution, restitution and regulation - are pillars for democratizing land and advancing systemic transformation, writes Jun Borras
The document produced by legal experts of the Green Development Advocates relating to the illegalities of the acquisition and management of some land spaces around the Apouh a Ngog community by SOCAPALM was at the centre of discussions at the Prime Minister’s Office Wednesday 5 March 2026.
Residents, farmers, and Indigenous groups demand an end to land grabbing by an oil palm plantation company owned by the Consunji Group and call on the government rehabilitate their damaged forests and agricultural lands.
The 22,000-hectare Rushy Lagoon property has been a major dairy and beef producer for decades, but pine plantations could be in its near future, as UK's largest forestry asset manager has made a bid for it.
SGX-listed Hong Lai Huat Group Limited has completed the sale of its entire agriculture business in Cambodia, which includes a 10,000 ha cassava plantation in Aoral District, Kampong Speu Province.
Origin Tech Group has launched a new agricultural investment platform known as Corporate Farm, designed to mobilise private and institutional capital into large-scale farming operations across Nigeria.
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, has excluded companies tied to billionaire Vincent Bolloré from its investment portfolio, citing “human rights violations,” after a review and following reports of abuses at rubber plantations he co-owns in Africa.
The world’s largest pension fund has revealed that it sold its shares in the Bolloré group, a powerful French conglomerate, due to unresolved concerns about “serious human rights violations” at a plantation company partly owned by the group.
The 636-hectare portfolio, to be named Bunya Orchards, includes 341 hectares of established, high density macadamia orchards and 50 hectares of grazing land earmarked for greenfield macadamia development.
The two private equity funds, backed by European development banks, sell Zambia’s largest table-egg producer and large-scale farm operator to the Belgian family-owned Vanden Avenne Group.
- Africa Private Equity News
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04 Mar 2026
The agricultural land market in Ukraine crossed the symbolic milestone of one million hectares, since July 2021, when the sale and purchase of land were legalized.
- Odessa Journal
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04 Mar 2026