UK-based project developer DGC Asset Management is to launch a new subsidiary, Vaccinium (UK) Limited, which will invest in farms and estates in the US, Latin America and Europe.

Indonesia's outgoing president is against a draft bill that would retroactively limit foreign ownership of plantations to no more than 30 percent.

The commercial farm currently has 3,000 hectares under cultivation and another 3,000 hectares will be developed in 2015, while 3,000 farmers are involved in its outgrower programme.

A new 800 ha banana plantation is planned in Dehaene in the South region by a subsidiary of France's Compagnie Fruitière.

500,000 hectares of new farmlands has so far been identified across the Nigerian state to be allocated to the investors to develop the sector.

German airline Lufthansa in talks with several investment firms about taking on management of a private equity fund that will invest into farmland in Cameroon and Eastern Europe to grow oil crops.

Taking aim at one of the less-traveled areas of private equity, Agriculture Capital Management is targeting $250 million for a debut fund called ACM Permanent Crops.

The ProSavana agriculture programme is causing environmental degradation and the near extinction of indigenous communities in the savannah regions of northern Mozambique.

Some experts say that the Chinese engagement in African agriculture is still in the exploratory stage.

Georgian government signs MOU with Chinese counterparts for $20-25 million investments in the agricultural sector in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region.

Global Witness is urging Papua New Guinea to block a bid by one of Malaysia’s biggest logging companies, Rimbunan Hijau, to renew a license that permits it to flatten over 40,000 hectares of tropical rainforest in order to grow oil palm.

AP Pension, the €16 billion Danish pension fund, has now invested €40 million into local farms representing half of its farmland allocation for the year.