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.

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.

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.

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.

Namibia's Popular Democratic Movement is trying to reverse a decision to grant Russian billionaire Rashid Sardarov a 99-year lease of four farms with a combined size of more than 17 000 hectares.

Golden Veroleum Liberia is not being held accountable for defying a ruling issued six years ago by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil against the company for land grabbing.

In Tanzania, Chinese seed company Longping is setting its sights on expanding its soybean operations to the Ndogowe area of Dodoma, as well as developing a massive 10,000-hectare farm in Mkulazi, Morogoro.

The Informal Alliance against Industrial Oil Palm Plantations calls on Socapalm to immediately stop replanting oil palm plantations in the vicinity of the houses and graves of the communities living in Apouh à Ngog, Cameroon

Silva Capital invests in agricultural land to develop large-scale carbon sequestration projects by reforesting cleared areas, while ensuring the land remains productive for farming.

Communities living close to oil palm plantations run by PHC in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo are laying claim to just over 58,000 ha of land, and are demanding access to the company’s land titles to determine the boundaries of its concessions.

UK local government pension schemes-backed Stafford Carbon Offsets Opportunities Fund has invested $60m to acquire degraded pastureland in south-western Brazil and made a $12m investment in three properties totalling 1,914ha in New Zealand.

Elaia, the agricultural platform of Atitlan, acquires Ecosac, a Peruvian company specializing in grape and canned pepper production with 2,500 hectares currently under production and another 2,500 in reserve.