Russia's second-largest bank VTB is in talks to buy a major agricultural producer owned by US-based NCH that farms on 290,000 hectares across several regions of Russia.
A Lansing-based organisation that manages employee retirement plans for Michigan local governments is accused of losing $100mn on a coffee plantation venture in Hawaii and fraudulently misleading a lender into contributing $40mn to the project before abandoning it.
A palm oil company owned by Indonesian tycoon Alexander Thaslim has cleared nearly 1,500 hectares of rainforest since it began operating last year in Kapuas Hulu, a landlocked district deep in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province
Presco/SIAT plans to start a large oil palm project covering 10,000 hectares of land across 52 communities in Abia State, Nigeria, and will be sending a technical team to choose suitable sites, study both new and existing farmland, and collect soil samples for testing.
The investor, Pan-Tanzania Agriculture Developments Limited, has been allocated 62,000 acres in Kilwa District, Lindi Region, where it will cultivate cassava and process it locally for export to China
El gobierno de EE. UU. anunció un plan para prohibir que inversionistas extranjeros vinculados a países considerados adversarios, principalmente China, compren tierras agrícolas, y evalúa recuperar predios ya vendidos, consolidando la agricultura como un asunto de seguridad nacional.
Six days after the controversial revocation of Certificate of Occupancy of about 13,545 hectares of land belonging to Presco Plc by the Edo State Government, Governor, Monday Okpebholo has said as an investor he cannot be the one sending investors out of the state.
An ASX-listed real estate funds manager has pulled off a second major farmland coup in as many weeks, snapping up a portfolio of 22 properties in an off-market deal.
Large-scale land leases to Gulf and domestic agribusiness investors have undermined rural livelihoods by cutting off grazing routes and limiting access to land, primarily used for cultivating sorghum and other staple food crops, Nisrin Elamin explains.
Grassroots movements push for more inclusive climate governance as palm oil expansion threatens ancestral lands.
La prescription acquisitive pourrait prochainement être rétablie à Madagascar, après presque un an de suspension. Le gouvernement prévoit un encadrement strict pour éviter les abus et sécuriser les droits fonciers.
On the sidelines of an AfDB investment forum in Morocco, Nigeria's Zamfara State signed an MOU with Nigeria's Ministry of Finance under which it will provide arable land, infrastructure and policy incentives while the Ministry mobilises investors.