Shalimar Flowers gets nod to buy Karuturi land

• The Standard
• 29 November 2022

The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has approved the sale of more than 100 hectares of Karuturi Flower Farm in Naivasha by Shalimar Flowers.

Klimat X completes first phase of Sierra Leone reforestation planting

• Klimat X
• 29 November 2022

Total project area covers 25,000 hectares and will produce up to 17 MM tCO2e over life-of-project, with a further 37,000 hectares secured reforestation rights in Sierra Leone

Shalimar flower farm to take over Karuturi flowers

• The Star
• 28 November 2022

The Competition Authority of Kenya has given a ray of hope to more than 3,000 workers of Karuturi Flowers (200 ha) after it approved its purchase by Shalimar Flowers Kenya Limited.

Fresh fruits from the Andean region

• GAI
• 28 November 2022

Frontal Trust develops strategic alliances with local agribusiness operators with the objective of structuring investment vehicles to fund their growth plans, and connecting capital to investment opportunities in Latin America farmland.

AU Summit showcases Common African Agro-Parks

• EABW News
• 28 November 2022

The five regional, mega agro-industrial parks "must become the horse on which the African Continental Free Trade Area must run".

New Zealand family buys 200-year-old Tassie farm Vaucluse for $100m

• AFR
• 28 November 2022

For Minneapolis-based Proterra Investment Partners, the sale represents a second lucrative exit in its agricultural funds, after it sold a 22,386-hectare cropping portfolio in Victoria and South Australia last year.

Canadian Mounties super fund snaps up Casella vineyards

• AFR
• 28 November 2022

A large Canadian pension fund which counts the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and defence force workers as members has acquired 35 vineyards in Australia from wine group Casella

Investor to pump in Sh20b to reclaim Yala swamp, create 2,000 jobs

• The Standard
• 28 November 2022

Despite objections by numerous community organisations and representatives, Siaya Kenya's National Land Commission will provide Lake Agro Ltd 17,250 acres of land at the Yala Swamp for agricultural use in a 66 years lease agreement.

Kpong Left Bank Irrigation Project produces banana plantation - Set to create employment for 600

• Graphic
• 27 November 2022

Compagnie Fruitier in Ghana hopes that issues of land allocation to local farmers would be expedited to avoid the problem of encroachment on lands already allocated.

Saskatchewan farmers, researchers worry investor-bought land 'empties out the countryside'

• CBC
• 26 November 2022

Farmers and researchers in Canada say this trend could speed up rising costs and force smaller, local farmers to expand or get out of the industry altogether.

Karuturi assets on sale as two banks seek to recover Sh1.6 billion

• Business Daily
• 25 November 2022

Assets up for grabs include a 70-hectare piece of land and greenhouses sitting on 26 hectares of land

Report on Harvard’s Endowment

• Stop Harvard Land Grabs
• 23 November 2022

Harvard student organisations find that Harvard’s endowment lacks transparency in its investments and is complicit in occupations, prisons, militaries, land grabs, policing, and border control.