Growing berries in Saudi Arabia and a farming project by the Nile are among the first investments of a new private equity firm co-founded by the former chief of Egypt’s sovereign wealth fund.

Global property consultancy Knight Frank says 83% of the wealth managers in Kenya it asked about investment trends said their clients are now investing in farmland primarily for food production.

The Lagos Aquaculture Centre for Excellence initiative – a joint venture between the Lagos State government and Dula Agro-Services Limited, located on 35 hectares of land in Igbonla, Epe, is designed to serve as production facility for fish fingerlings, processing, and as an off-take facility for all fish farmers in Lagos

OKKO Group, which has the largest gas station network in Ukraine, is expanding its agricultural assets in the country, acquiring 17,000 hectares in northern Ternopil.

President William Ruto has defended the government’s decision to partner with three private firms in the revival of the multi-billion-shilling Galana Kulalu irrigation project.

Private equity firms — notorious for buying up private companies, often with the goal of selling them quickly — have lately accelerated their investments in California wineries, targeting famous Napa Valley estates.

West Papuans in Merauke claim the Indonesian government is stealing land to build its global "food barn" and feed its population of 280 million.

Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson says the government will acquire vast tracts of land to establish large-scale plantation farms and restore annual production to one million metric tonnes.

"These companies are in it for the short-term to make a lot of money from carbon credits then flick them before the plantations become a liability”

The agreement, one of the largest single buyer agreements to date, will see Microsoft receive carbon credits from a pipeline of individual Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) projects worldwide

Protest by community members opposed to a soil carbon project on Indigenous-owned grazing land prevented the signing of a 40-year lease on some 68,000 hectares of land as part of the much larger Kajiado Rangeland Carbon Project.

Major Spanish bank Santander has helped fund one of South America’s worst deforesters by co-arranging $1.3 billion of financing for agribusiness giant Cresud since 2011, Global Witness can reveal.