The slow massacre: East Phillips and North Desha Counties, Arkansas, then and now

• Arkansas Review
• 16 December 2023

How US pension fund TIAA purchased farmland with a legacy of racism and murder

Billionaire Mark Cuban backing $1 billion Congo carbon plan

• Bloomberg
• 13 December 2023

A climate startup co-founded by a businessman behind a botched land deal for 400,000 ha in South Sudan has signed a deal to generate $1 billion of carbon credits in the DRC.

Tanzania unveils world-class investment opportunities in agribusiness

• TBI
• 13 December 2023

Tanzania is offering more than 60,000 hectares of fertile land to both foreign and domestic companies to invest in large-scale farming at Mkulazi area in Morogoro.

Indonesia prepares 1 mln hectares for sugar factories in Papua

• Antara
• 12 December 2023

The government is preparing one million hectares of land in Papua for investors interested in building sugar factories to help Indonesia achieve sugar self-sufficiency, says Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman.

Al Dahra and Agreena announce carbon farming project on the EU’s largest arable farm at COP28

• Agreena
• 12 December 2023

A partnership between UAE agribusiness, Al Dahra, and Danish climate agtech company, Agreena, will see the largest consolidated arable farm in the European Union transition to regenerative agriculture.

Large-scale landscape restoration: Spades and the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD announce partnerships

• PR Newswire
• 11 December 2023

US-based Spades reaches landscape restoration agreements with Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cote d'Ivoire for projects that span around 10 million hectares and involve the planting of 1.5 billion trees.

The intractable problem of land grabbing in Cambodia

• Equal Times
• 11 December 2023

Local residents who were evicted from their land for a 42,000 hectare sugar cane plantation are all the more bitter now that the unprofitable and poorly financed agricultural project has collapsed.

Niger, Blue Carbon sign pact on tree planting

• Guardian
• 08 December 2023

Governor Mohammed Bago of Nigeria's Niger State has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Blue Carbon for a carbon capture project to plant one billion new trees on 760,000 hectares in the state.

China’s ‘going out’ policy and global agrarian change

• PLAAS
• 07 December 2023

PLAAS continues its discussion with Yan Hariong, exploring China’s ‘Going Out Policy' and its intricate linkages with other developing countries, especially in Africa

Video: Bitter Harvest

• Equitable Cambodia
• 07 December 2023

British sugar company Tate & Lyle enriched itself off the harvest of stolen land. More than 12,000 Cambodians have been forced off their land, leaving them to suffer through years of destitution.

10X Capital Venture Acquisition Corp. II and African Agriculture, Inc. announce closing of business combination

• Globe Newswire
• 06 December 2023

Upon listing, African Agriculture will be the first pure-play US-listed agriculture company operating in Africa.

Mirova’s new €350m fund targets sustainable land and biodiversity

• Fintech Global
• 06 December 2023

Mirova's LDN Fund has raised $208 million from public institutions and private investors and invested in companies like the Swiss company Pamoja which operates nut farms in Kenya and Tanzania