Saudi trade body fixes technical hurdle blocking exports to Iraq

• Asharq Alawsat
• 06 October 2025

Iraq’s agriculture minister has offered Saudi investors one million hectares of farmland.

JBS invests in Paraguay poultry operation

• Watt
• 06 October 2025

The Brazilian meat giant says its expansion plans for a poultry complex in the department of Caaguazú that it acquired through its take over of Pollos Amanecer will include 28 farms to supply genetic material, hatcheries and a feed factory

UK: A sober end to BrewDog’s rewilding adventure

• The Observer
• 05 October 2025

BrewDog has sold a 9,300-acre estate in the Scottish Cairngorms to a specialist carbon credit company after ditching plans to go “carbon negative” by planting trees on the site.

Niger govt, Dangote partner on $150m agricultural project in Wushishi

• Tribune
• 05 October 2025

As part of a project with the Dangote Group, the Niger State Government, through the Niger Food Security System and Logistics Company Limited, has signed a land lease agreement with communities in Wushishi Local Government Area, aimed at boosting rice production.

Pak-Saudi trade corridor proposed

• Express Tribune
• 02 October 2025

Agriculture and livestock are fast emerging as priority areas under the umbrella of Pakistan's Special Investment Facilitation Council and, last year, a Saudi agribusiness firm signed an agreement to cultivate 5,000 acres of alfalfa fodder for export.

The ‘return’ of land grabbing?

• JPS
• 02 October 2025

Land grabbing never disappeared but has persisted and transformed, shaped by geopolitics, financialization, and climate policies.

Biggest EU pension fund ABP buys major stake in US forests

• Bloomberg
• 02 October 2025

Dutch pension fund ABP bought 173,000 acres of land in August for $462 million and says its mandate now is focused 100% on impact investments within forestry and agriculture

Egypt: Sekem Holding seals deal to acquire 23,500 feddans in Toshka Basin

• Arab Finance
• 02 October 2025

Sekem Holding has signed a contract with the Egyptian government to acquire approximately 23,500 feddans (9,870 hectares) in the Toshka Basin.

DRC government gives clearance to a $1 billion agro-industrial project in Kongo Central

• Ecofin
• 01 October 2025

Switzerland's Mole Group has received approval for a $1bn agro-industrial project in Mbanza-Ngungu that will span 104,000 hectares under a 99-year land tenure agreement.

Indonesia's state farm company to invest nearly $500 million to boost rice output

• Reuters
• 30 September 2025

Indonesia's newly-launched state farm company says it will either partner with small farmers, renting them equipment, or run its own farms, adding that it stood to receive 225,000 hectares of land from the agriculture ministry by year-end.

Ivory Coast signs US$156.8 million farm deal with Italy’s BF Group

• African Agribusiness
• 30 September 2025

The deal covers the establishment and development of a 10,000-hectare pilot farm in Tagadi, located in the Sorobango sub-prefecture

Viet Nam, China firms partner to supply 1.6 million pigs to southern market

• VNA
• 28 September 2025

BAF Viet Nam Agriculture Joint Stock Company and China’s Muyuan Foods will build a high-rise farm in Tay Ninh province that will house 64,000 sows and produce 1.6 million market pigs annually, alongside a feed mill with an estimated capacity of 600,000 tonnes per year.