Experts say the economic forces now reshaping agriculture are similar to ones that have transformed residential real estate over the last two decades, with investors — from pension plans to well-to-do urban families — fuelling speculation and driving up real estate prices
Russia's Agro-Industrial Holding Company has confirmed plans for the construction of a 500 ha greenhouse complex in the Keles district of the Turkestan region.
The Bodi people have been decimated since the Gibe III dam came into operation and diverted the Omo River’s waters to large-scale irrigation schemes.
Carbon Done Right plans a stock market flotation and says it has secured access to 57,000 hectares in Sierra Leoone—but no leases have been registered with local authorities
Representatives of the Awyu and Moi communities from the Indonesian province of West Papua held traditional ceremonies outside the country’s Supreme Court calling for their traditional land and forests to be protected from palm oil plantations. The Awyu have also intervened in appeals taken by two other palm oil companies against a decision to cancel permits that it had previously issued for them to clear Indigenous lands.
Temasek-owned GenZero is among investors backing the first phase of an ecosystem restoration project, which at full scale targets to plant thicket on 100,000 ha of land across the Eastern and Western Capes of South Africa.
Since 2019, the country has added some 175,000 hectares of tree plantations, almost all the fast-growing, carbon-sucking Pinus radiata pine
For the World Bank guaranteeing land tenure means business security for large investors, but for small scale producers, Indigenous peoples, workers, and grassroots communities it means land grabbing and displacement
Fazenda Agrinor is constructing greenhouses in the commune of Bela Vista, Angola at its 5000 ha farm concession in collaboration with the Israeli company Mitrelli
“Some African nations, such as Kenya and Uganda, are ready to fast-track collaboration in agriculture with India and recently offered land on lease to Indian businesses during a delegation visit," said an Indian official
The Azuero Reforestation Project is expected to plant trees on 10,000 hectares of degraded tropical forest on the Azuero Peninsula in Panama that has been converted to low-density cattle ranchland over the last century.
“Probably the biggest growth is in working with large institutional investors at large pension funds and insurance companies, and also some quite large family offices,” which manages over 300,000 ha of farmland and timberland in the US, Europe and Australia.
