Global institutional investors, led by Canadian pension funds, are piling into the sector, a trend mirroring growing allocations to the farming and related rural sectors worldwide.
Residents of Pader Sub-county are protesting the allocation of 2,611 acres to Panacea Agribusiness Ltd, saying that more than 3,000 farmers in the area will have nowhere to grow their crops.
The farmland in Portugal will be acquired from Borges Agricultural & Industrial Nuts, one of the largest nut processing companies in Spain.
Nigeria's Edo State Government has signed an agreement with two major fossil fuel companies providing them with 6,000 hectares of land from the state's protected forest reserves for large-scale tree planting to produce carbon credits
Qantas Super plans to generate a higher proportion of returns from the agricultural sector after committing $200 million to the development of high-yielding horticultural crops on properties managed by farmland investor goFARM.
Local communities in Mondulkiri province have been struggling to get their land back since 2008, when the Luxembourg-based Socfin group secured 12,000 hectares of their lands.
The joint venture project between Qatar's Baladna and the Algeria's National Investment Fund will develop a vertically integrated dairy operation in Algeria, spanning 117,000 ha.
Chinese billionaire Xianfeng Lu has put one of the country’s biggest dairy operations, the nearly 200-year-old Woolnorth farming aggregation in Tasmania, up for sale after losing a big milk supply contract with dairy giant Fonterra earlier this year.
Fourteen civil society organizations have expressed their disagreement with the manner in which the ongoing Independent Complaints Mechanism pertaining to the operations of company Plantations et Huileries du Congo is being handled.
Valoral Advisors, an international investment advisory firm specializing in food and agriculture, and El Renuevo, a farm management company in Argentina, are joining forces to suppport foreign investors interested in exploring and investing in farmland opportunities in the country.
The cancellation of the title followed a public outcry that it was illegally issued to two individuals, as well as another suspension of a 2,300 ha land title in the same district that had been claimed by Terra Agri Solutions Ltd for a commercial farm.
The Vietnamese conglomerate’s regional expansion will include 11,600 hectares dedicated to intensive banana production across the four new farms, two of which will be in Cambodia.
