A Canadian pension fund has just taken sole control of Hawaii's largest irrigation system and pocketed $75 million at the expense of its former owner, a sugar plantation, while a standoff with a new public water management agency looms.
Philippine's President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. made a special plea to foreign investors in his fourth State of the Nation Address: Invest in the country’s agriculture sector. Meanwhile, the World Bank criticises Philippine policy that aims to prevent the concentration of rural land ownership.
Le Qatari Baladna lance la première étape de sa ferme géante de production laitière en Algérie, avec 270 000 vaches sur 117 000 ha
En l'absence d'initiatives de régulation, le Madagascar risque de voir une vague d’« accaparements verts » au nom de la biodiversité et de la protection de la nature et ainsi menacer les moyens de subsistance de millions d’exploitants familiaux
- The Conversation
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28 July 2025
New Zealand sheep farmers are fighting to stop the loss of pasture to fast-spreading pine plantations, which earn government subsidies to soak up carbon emissions.
India's National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development and Rabo Bank are pursuing a project in Karnataka to plant trees on mango plantations as a way to generate carbon credits.
A French billionaire controls 400,000 hectares across Africa through a web of Swiss companies and colonial-era land titles. This is how modern extraction works.
- Buried Signals
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27 July 2025
L’accord prévoit l’exploitation de 30 000 hectares de terres réparties dans six provinces de l’est du pays. La concession est attribuée pour 25 ans et bénéficie d’un régime fiscal préférentiel.
- La Nouvelle Tribune
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26 July 2025
The Kenyan government has awarded sections of the 250,000-acre irrigation scheme to three firms: Selu Africa Limited, Nyumbani Foundation, and Al Dahra of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Une manifestation contre le replanting de Socapalm à Mbimbè, le 14 juillet 2025, et a été fortement réprimée par les forces de sécurité camerounaises, avec à la clé des arrestations de quelques villageois, relaxés quelques jours plus tard.
Sinohydro Group of China will invest more than $100 million in Angola to develop a 25-year, tax-free 30,000 hectare land concession to produce soybeans for export.
Farmland investors say a tax imposed uniquely by Queensland on foreign-owned agricultural land is having a “chilling effect” on new investment and prompting existing offshore investors to divest Queensland assets and replace them with investments in other states.
- Sheep Central
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23 July 2025