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23 Apr 2026
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Component Earth announces launch and secures over $50 million to scale Lake Victoria agroforestry project Component Earth | 22 Apr 2026
Component Earth, a new carbon finance company announced the close of an over $50 million facility from global commodities leader Trafigura that will be used to scale the Lake Victoria Watershed Agroforestry Carbon Project in Kenya from its initial 15,000 hectares to 35,000 hectares, and potentially beyond.
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Triodos IM, Fondaction launch new €300 million natural capital fund ESG Today | 22 Apr 2026
Impact investment management firms Triodos Investment Management and Fondaction Asset Management announced the launch of Value Nature Fund I, a new closed-end natural capital fund aimed at transitioning farmland and forests to regenerative, closer-to-nature practices across North America and Europe
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Costa expands blueberry footprint in Laos with large-scale project Produce Report | 22 Apr 2026
The Champasak Provincial Investment Promotion and Management Committee signed a concession agreement covering 103.14 ha with Costa Berry Lao Co. Ltd. for a berry cultivation project.
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Canada: Ontario to restrict foreign ownership of farmland, joining other provinces London Free Press | 21 Apr 2026
The agriculture minister said it is a way to “ensure that Ontario has a strong, independent food supply for generations to come.”
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Uzbek business leases 4,000 hectares of farmland in Shumilina District and wants to buy more Reform.news | 21 Apr 2026
The Uzbek enterprises Asl Yuksalish Savdo and Muborak qorako‘lchilik have acquired 4,000 hectares of farmland in Belarus on a long-term lease for a large-scale project that involves the raising of 1,000 head of cattle in an initial stage.
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Betting the farm The Baffler | 21 Apr 2026
The process of land consolidation in Ukraine stands to accelerate as the government leans into agribusiness as a vehicle for rebuilding the country, arguing that only large companies have the capital needed to repair an agricultural sector devastated by war.
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Uganda woos Chinese investors with land, tax incentives and coffee opportunities New Vision | 20 Apr 2026
Uganda’s Ambassador to China underscored Uganda’s strong agricultural potential, describing the country as an ideal destination for large-scale farming and agro-processing, particularly in coffee.
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Nigeria: Federal government launches 5,000-hectare farm to boost food security Punch | 19 Apr 2026
The 5,000-hectare farm estate in Ora, Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State will be allocated in parcels of five hectares per farmer, with each beneficiary expected to employ between four and five workers.
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BTG Pactual TIG raises $370 million for Latin America timberland strategy ESG Today | 17 Apr 2026
BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group announced that it has raised $370 million in commitments for its newest core Latin America strategy, focused on large-scale, sustainably managed, core timberland assets across Chile, Uruguay and Brazil that generate carbon credits.
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AgDevCo invests $15M in tilapia farming company Victory Group AIM | 09 Apr 2026
With tilapia farms on Lake Victoria in Kenya and Lake Kivu in Rwanda, Victory Group will use the financing from AgDevCo to support the group’s next phase of expansion including multiple new farms in Kenya and Rwanda.
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India: Oil palm individualizing the use of collective land in Manipur WRM | 07 Apr 2026
The negative impacts of oil palm plantations promoted by India's national policy to increase national oil palm production are already being felt in three villages in the state of Manipur, where the area are targeted for the plantation. The turmoil it is creating at the plantation villages indicates a departure from the indigenous ways of land governance and relations to a system designed to cater to a corporate economic system.
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Cameroon and Sierra Leone: Women stand up against Socfin WRM | 07 Apr 2026
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.
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Current investments in and expansion of tree monocultures in Africa WRM | 07 Apr 2026
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.
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Kashkadarya Region, Uzbekistan, to co-launch major beef project with Vitebsk Region, Belarus The Caspian Post | 26 Mar 2026
Uzbekistan's Kashkadarya Region plans to deepen cooperation with Belarus' Vitebsk Region in the field of food security and launch a major beef production project, the Head of the Department of Investments, Industry, and Trade of Uzbekistan's Kashkadarya Regional Administration, Shahrier Toshmurod Khamzaev, announced.
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Palantir a obtenu un contrat de 300 millions de dollars avec l'USDA pour moderniser les services agricoles américains. QZ | 22 avr 2026
Selon les termes de l'accord, Palantir déploiera un logiciel opérationnel conçu pour sécuriser les terres agricoles face aux étrangers
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Peuples autochtones du Cambodge - repenser la place des lois coutumières Le Petit Journal | 20 avr 2026
L’absence de représentation au niveau provincial limite l’intégration des modes de gouvernance des peuples autochtones - comme ceux des Bunong face aux entreprises agroindustrielles - dans les décisions publiques.
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Inquiétudes et alertes du Collectif TANY sur les orientations agricoles actuelles Collectif TANY | 17 avr 2026
Les responsables de l’Etat malgache sont appellés à résoudre rapidement et de manière juste vis-à-vis des droits des 4.000 paysans, les problèmes fonciers provoqués par les décisions du Comité d’Attribution des Terres du projet Bas-Mangoky financé par la Banque Africaine de Développement, qui concernent 5.000 ha
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