The long road to getting land back in Mexico

• Ojalá
• 23 August 2024

San Isidro is not just a land grab case of a company being favored by the state. Here, the death of the people carries the name of a transnational-- Amway.

The destructive character of the bioeconomy and the struggle of the Virgílio Serrão Sacramento community for their territory in Pará state, Brazil

• WRM
• 22 August 2024

Peasant families are threatened with eviction by Brasil Bio Fuels oil palm plantation company, with the complicity of the state governmen.

Koch invests in massive land grab from West African herders

• Exposed
• 21 August 2024

An investment arm of the largest private company in the U.S. — Koch, Inc — is investing in an agricultural business venture that will generate carbon credits while pulling local natural resources from almost 2.9 million hectares of land in West Africa.

Zim, Saudi Arabia work on agric map

• The Herald
• 20 August 2024

“Salic, which is charged by royal decree to make strategic investments at home and abroad to ensure food security in Saudi Arabia, is a good fit for several of our State institutions, as well as for our private sector, in the area of agriculture, livestock and agribusiness," says Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia

Schweppes Zimbabwe to invest US$28 million in citrus farming expansion

• Zimbabwe Mail
• 20 August 2024

The Zimbabwean government has allocated 4,000 hectares of land to Schweppes, where the company plans to cultivate its own citrus.

Canadian purchase of Kimberley Meat Co assets gets green light, in $55m deal

• Beef Central
• 19 August 2024

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.

UAE investors eye Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector

• Sunday Mail
• 18 August 2024

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.

New Zealand: Hawke’s Bay apple industry: Dutch firm buys 60ha orchard; two more orchards hit market

• NZ Herald
• 17 August 2024

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.

Zimbabwe explores livestock value chain with Saudi Arabia

• The Standard
• 17 August 2024

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.

Judgement on Russian’s farm deal postponed

• The Namibian
• 15 August 2024

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.

Over landgrab, GVL defies watchdog with impunity

• Liberian Observer
• 15 August 2024

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.

Tapping Brazil soybean variety: A new opportunity for Dodoma’s land

• Kilimo Kwanza
• 14 August 2024

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.