PLS LESB will partner with Japan's Millennium Agriculture Technology and MyFarm Inc, Japan to develop up to 1,000 hectares of durian plantations in Pahang, Malaysia.
- New Straits Times
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16 January 2023
Cambodian government awarded a new Economic Land Concession (ELC) in March 2022 for the first time in nearly a decade despite an existing moratorium on ELCs. The new ELC site comprises more than 5,000 hectares of forest land in Stung Treng province.
- CamboJa News
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16 January 2023
Nigeria's Ekiti State government says 263 farming families were compensated for lands that were taken to establish a joint venture dairy farm with the South Africa-based dairy company Promisador.
Grassley says young and beginning farmers are increasingly competing with institutional investors, such as pension funds and endowments, who are diversifying their financial portfolios with prime farmland.
- Chuck Grassley
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13 January 2023
The case of a community land rights defender in Mubende district forced to buy food for a family of 13 people for the last five years.
- Witness Radio
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13 January 2023
The Guyanese president asked India to send a team of experts to set up millets farm in Guyana and promised all help in production and promotion of millets in the Caribbean and Latin American countries
- Statesman
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12 January 2023
Wisconsin Farmers Union says that it's very difficult to find out who owns the investment firms that have been acquiring farmland in the state.
A Ugandan villager is in a three-way legal battle for ownership of land with a sugar company that wants to expand its plantations and the National Forestry Authority, which says it is part of a forest reserve.
Communities in Rukubi, Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Nigeria where Olam Rice Farm is located, have said they are in pain and sorrow due to the activities of the multi-national farming company.
- Daily Trust
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10 January 2023
The Trade Secretary of the Philippines invites Chinese investors to consider the Philippines as "an investment destination for plantations and processing facilities"
Minister said Ghana has 40,000 hectares of land readily available to support large scale rice production and encouraged delegates from the Thai company Jospong Group to take advantage of it.
- Business Ghana
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03 January 2023
The Agriculture Minister of the German state of Brandenburg wants to enact a new law to prevent investors from outside the industry from buying up a large part of the agricultural land.
- Indo & NY
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01 January 2023