A civil society group closely monitoring developments at the 6,000-hectare palm oil plantation welcomed the call for a temporary suspension of its activities.

Swiss-based Harvest Group SA, through its subsidiary Harvest Agro Holding, has announced an investment of half a billion dollars to develop as much as 300,000 hectares of pastureland across rural Kazakhstan into productive agricultural land

A new report shows that sales of beef and sheep farms, particularly for carbon farming, are continuing “at an alarming rate”.

Groups say the agropole project is not in line with food sovereignty and call for it to be halted, for the memorandum of understanding with Israeli LR Group to be cancelled and for the law on agricultural aggregation to be repealed.

African Food Security, a New York-based agribusiness firm, has launched a large-scale farming initiative in Somaliland and says it has commenced feasibility studies and soil assessments.

According to the United Nations, over 36 million people are struggling to meet their basic food needs, a number projected to rise to over 52 million during the June–August 2025 lean season, including almost three million in emergency conditions (IPC4) and 2,600 people in Mali at risk of facing catastrophic hunger (IPC5).

The Cerrado, a wooded savannah in Brazil, remains a hotspot for deforestation as companies make the most of laws allowing more deforestation than in the Amazon

Cambodian Banana Agricultural General Co Ltd (CBA), a Chinese enterprise, harvests Cavendish bananas from 500 hectares of plantations in Cambodia, and aims to expand on another 200 hectares by 2026.

Venezuela’s Vice President told a delegation from Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture that his government has prepared 100,000ha of agricultural land for Vietnamese investors

Indonesia plans to develop a oil palm plantation in Boven Digoel regency, South Papua province, to strengthen economic resilience and energy independence, the Defence Ministry said.

The "Green Pakistan Initiative" is fast tracking Gulf agribusiness deals. Saudi & UAE firms are investing billions in Pakistani farmland, while local communities warn of land grabs & water shortages.

Near the edge of the Sahara Desert, in Egypt’s West Minya, Chinese drillers bore deep into the earth, tapping groundwater to irrigate a once 500-hectare stretch of desert – now home to the world’s largest beet sugar factory, owned by UAE investors.