Resistance of communities from Cameroon and Sierra Leone whose lands have been invaded by the palm oil and rubber company Socfin for decades dealt an economic blow to the company.

Financial institutions and private investors from the global North are channelling hundreds of millions of dollars into the expansion of industrial tree plantations across Africa.

Only about 0.5pc of land comes up for sale nationally every year and it’s estimated up to a quarter of this is bought by non-farmers. Even if they don’t get the land, they are turning up at auctions and pushing prices well beyond the realms of most farmers.

Riy­adh is invest­ing in African agri­cul­tural pro­duc­tion and export infra­struc­ture in a bid to boost its food secur­ity amid global polit­ical shocks

Taylor Farms, which has greenhouse facilities across the US, Mexico, Canada, Spain, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy, announces it has acquired leafy green producer Equinox Growers from Generate Capital.

Nigeria’s proposed $900 million poultry partnership with Chinese investors is encountering early resistance from local farmers, raising fresh concerns about how foreign-backed agricultural projects could reshape the country’s domestic industry.

In recent years the UAE has invested $60 billion in ports, airfields and logistical hubs up and down the coasts of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, building an archipelago of influence that ties geography directly to strategic ambition. Control of infrastructure, not territory, forms the foundation of this empire.

Angola is set to grant around 800,000 hectares of land to Brazilian and Chinese business groups as part of a strategy to increase agricultural production and reduce food dependence

The plan calls for six integrated poultry farms, each with an output of about 1 million eggs per day and each backed by a 10,000-hectare agricultural estate dedicated to maize and soya production for feed.

Swiss global ag investment boutique EBG Capital is expanding its Iberian kiwi project through the acquisition of two orchards (one being the only island in the world entirely dedicated to kiwi production) in Northern Spain.

The Commissioner of the Gambella Regional State Investment Commission says the 14,000 ha rice project’s pace has not matched initial expectations despite its status as a flagship commercial rice initiative.

Foreign investors held registered interests in 50.262 million hectares of Australian agricultural land at 30 June 2025, according to new data tabled in Federal Parliament.