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Africa’s big food opportunity
- CNBC
- 24 August 2024
African Food Security, a New York-based company, says it will grow maize on 305,000 ha in Cameroon and and 335,000 in the DR Congo, with plans to eventually reach 1 million ha in Africa.
Pakistan: SIFC identifies 4.8 million acres of state land for corporate farming
- Profit
- 23 August 2024
A military-owned company will lease the land for 30 years through joint ventures and allocate it to investors for farming projects
Indonesia prepares 1.5 million hectares for dairy farming and cow imports to support Prabowo's program
- Jakarta Globe
- 23 August 2024
The Ministry is engaging with private investors and international partners. Recent discussions include an investor from the Middle East seeking 20,000 hectares and interest from China and Vietnam for a minimum of 5,000 hectares.
The long road to getting land back in Mexico
- Ojalá
- 23 August 2024
San Isidro is not just a land grab case of a company being favored by the state. Here, the death of the people carries the name of a transnational-- Amway.
The destructive character of the bioeconomy and the struggle of the Virgílio Serrão Sacramento community for their territory in Pará state, Brazil
- WRM
- 22 August 2024
Peasant families are threatened with eviction by Brasil Bio Fuels oil palm plantation company, with the complicity of the state governmen.
Koch invests in massive land grab from West African herders
- Exposed
- 21 August 2024
An investment arm of the largest private company in the U.S. — Koch, Inc — is investing in an agricultural business venture that will generate carbon credits while pulling local natural resources from almost 2.9 million hectares of land in West Africa.
Zim, Saudi Arabia work on agric map
- The Herald
- 20 August 2024
“Salic, which is charged by royal decree to make strategic investments at home and abroad to ensure food security in Saudi Arabia, is a good fit for several of our State institutions, as well as for our private sector, in the area of agriculture, livestock and agribusiness," says Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Schweppes Zimbabwe to invest US$28 million in citrus farming expansion
- Zimbabwe Mail
- 20 August 2024
The Zimbabwean government has allocated 4,000 hectares of land to Schweppes, where the company plans to cultivate its own citrus.
Canadian purchase of Kimberley Meat Co assets gets green light, in $55m deal
- Beef Central
- 19 August 2024
Canadian super fund manager Alberta Investment Management Corp has completed contracts for its purchase of the Kimberley Meat Co beef processing facility in Western Australia’s Kimberley region that includes pastoral leases covering 475,000 ha.
UAE investors eye Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector
- Sunday Mail
- 18 August 2024
Buyers from the UAE have expressed interest in investing in the local agriculture sector, taking advantage of favourable climate, vast tracts of fertile land and the availability of numerous water bodies.
New Zealand: Hawke’s Bay apple industry: Dutch firm buys 60ha orchard; two more orchards hit market
- NZ Herald
- 17 August 2024
Hawke’s Bay apple orchards have been changing hands amid a shake-up to the industry, with the latest significant sale featuring a Dutch newcomer buying a 62-hectare Ongaonga block.
Zimbabwe explores livestock value chain with Saudi Arabia
- The Standard
- 17 August 2024
A delegation from the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC) expressed interest in Zimbabwe’s agricultural potential and acknowledged the country’s strategic importance in the region.