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02 Oct 2025
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DRC government gives clearance to a $1 billion agro-industrial project in Kongo Central Ecofin | 01 Oct 2025
Switzerland's Mole Group has received approval for a $1bn agro-industrial project in Mbanza-Ngungu that will span 104,000 hectares under a 99-year land tenure agreement.
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Indonesia's state farm company to invest nearly $500 million to boost rice output Reuters | 30 Sep 2025
Indonesia's newly-launched state farm company says it will either partner with small farmers, renting them equipment, or run its own farms, adding that it stood to receive 225,000 hectares of land from the agriculture ministry by year-end.
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Viet Nam, China firms partner to supply 1.6 million pigs to southern market VNA | 28 Sep 2025
BAF Viet Nam Agriculture Joint Stock Company and China’s Muyuan Foods will build a high-rise farm in Tay Ninh province that will house 64,000 sows and produce 1.6 million market pigs annually, alongside a feed mill with an estimated capacity of 600,000 tonnes per year.
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Kazakh Invest and Harvest Agro Holding sign Mmmorandum on cooperation in the agricultural sector Kazakh Invest | 26 Sep 2025
The project provides for the phased conversion of up to 300,000 hectares of fallow and pasture lands into irrigated agricultural lands using modern water-saving technologies and infrastructure solutions
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How timberland, agriculture can fit into asset owner portfolios Chief Investment Officer | 25 Sep 2025
Nuveen’s 2025 “EQuilibrium” report, which presents the thoughts of its annual institutional asset allocator survey, found that 11% of survey respondents said they plan to increase their allocations both to farmland and timberland, while 26% and 27%, respectively, said they plan to maintain their allocations.
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Nuveen launches $3bn private US farmland REIT with exposure to California’s Central Valley GAI | 24 Sep 2025
Nuveen will pursue the acquisition and leasing of high-quality U.S. farmland growing crops ranging from row crops like corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton and vegetables to permanent plantings such as tree nuts, citrus, olives, avocados and wine grapes,
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Nigeria: Delta’s Brazil tour to boost food security, jobs —Aniagwu The Pointer | 21 Sep 2025
On a trip to Brazil, Nigeria's Delta State Commissioner for Works and Public Information said his government is considering land acquisition mechanisms to support large-scale farming requests from investors and is looking at the model of large-scale Brazilian ranching to "reduce the nomadic nature of animal husbandry"
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Gina Rinehart snaps up major slice of $220m cropping farms Weekly Times | 17 Sep 2025
American investors have split up a 21,830ha portfolio of farms among five buyers, including three farming families and the billionaire magnate’s Hancock Agriculture.
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Irro defends Wajaale project as environmental investment amid public concerns Dawan Africa | 07 Sep 2025
The Somaliland administration and the UK's Pharo Foundation signed an 18-month lease agreement for an irrigation project covering 5,800 hectares, under which Pharo will pay $10 per hectare annually, a figure that opponents argue is far below market value.
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Pharo Ventures’ value added transformation: From farmer to country Pharo Foundation | 30 Apr 2025
Pharo Ventures has acquired 1,000 hectares of fertile land in Tum Woreda of the Southwest Region of Ethiopia in 2024 and is pursuing contract farming of sesame with 220 farmers in Dima Woreda and Koy Kebele in the Gambela Region.
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Côte d’Ivoire : l’italien BF s’engage dans un projet agricole de 157 millions $ Agence Ecofin | 29 sep 2025
L'accord porte sur le développement d’une ferme pilote sur un domaine de 10 000 hectares à Tagadi, dans la sous-préfecture de Sorobango, pour produire du blé et du riz.
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Cameroun : les communautés villageoises de Mbonjo 1 souhaitent la réouverture d’un champ-école paysan fermé avec la complicité de la Socapalm Green Lines 237 | 28 aout 2025
L’espace créé depuis quelques années a été interdit d’exploitation depuis le début de l’année 2025. Une situation qui a poussé la Synaparcam à saisir l’organisation humanitaire Business & Human Rights Resource Centre.
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Grassroots Campaigns in defense of Land, Forests & Food Sovereignty: A New York Climate Week Forum
Friends of the Earth & Friends | New York | 26 Sep 2025
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