Le gouvernenment mauritanien a accordé à la Société saoudienne d'investissement « E-Rif » le droit d'exploiter 53.957 hectares à long terme dans la wilaya du Brakna.

The agreement with the Saudi investment company E-Rif covers the development and operation of 53,957 hectares in the districts of Boghé and Aleg, in Brakna Wilaya.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt is seeking to launch agricultural land reclamation projects and develop logistics infrastructure in Tanzania, while calling for greater cooperation among Nile Basin countries on shared water resources.

Chinese tuna-fishing firm Pingtai Rong Ocean Fishery Co. has announced plans to invest USD 76.8 million in a fishery industrial park project in the Southern African nation of Angola, which will eventually include aquaculture operations.

Adecoagro S.A. announces that it has entered into an agreement with Raízen Group to acquire the Caarapó Mill, located in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, including the Company's owned sugarcane and sugarcane supply agreements.

New state laws and a USDA overhaul could reshape farmland ownership, compliance costs, and future land transactions.

Zimbabwe is seeking Chinese investment for the 1,025 hectare Goromonzi Agro-Industrial Park, a high-tech farming and agro-processing special economic zone in Mashonaland East Province

Maple Agro Farms Corporation announces it has entered into a Letter of Intent with Traditional Authorities for the proposed acquisition of a 50-year renewable leasehold interest over 4,690 hectares of agricultural land located near Begoro in the Eastern Region of Ghana to develop oil palm plantations

Die Firma Socfin ist für Plantagen in Afrika und Asien bekannt - und für juristischen Attacken gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs). In Belgien wehren sich jetzt drei von ihnen auf ungewohnte Weise: Sie verklagen den Kläger.

Perhaps the most significant proposed change to the law for domestic agribusiness is the foreign-ownership percentage that triggers reporting requirements, going from over 50% to 10%.

L’acquisition des terres agricoles par des investisseurs de l’extérieur de la région se poursuit dans La Mitis, au Quebec. Actuellement, la MRC estime que près de 12 % de son territoire agricole est concentré dans les mains de grandes organisations de capitaux privés.

Le Parlement égyptien a donné mardi son approbation finale à une loi qui officialise l'expansion rapide de l'Autorité « Future of Egypt », un organisme lié à l'armée, pour en faire l'entité économique la plus puissante du pays, placée sous la tutelle directe de la présidence.

En janvier dernier, c’était le tour de l’ONG Proforest de se voir confier une «évaluation indépendante» sur onze plantations Socfin en Afrique, afin de tester son «plan d’action en matière de durabilité environnementale»

Since 2021, Eni has been pursuing a large-scale vegetable oil-based biofuel production programme in Africa. Spotlight on its 150,000 hectare project in the Republic of the Congo.

Depuis 2021, Eni mène un vaste programme de production de biocarburants à base d’huile végétale en Afrique. Zoom sur un projet de 150 000 ha en République du Congo.

Trois ONG belges viennent de porter plainte pour abus de procédure contre Socfin, lui réclamant 115 000 euros de dommages et intérêts.

Financialised land grabbing is driving Welsh farmland in the direction of a capitalist green transition that renders agrarian populations surplus to the needs of capital, and in the process begins a change in the character of agrarian social relations according to the dictates of finance capital and climate rentiers

Manulife Investment Management has listed nearly 20,000 hectares of prime NSW farmland, 53,227 megalitres of water rights and a mature almond orchard, which it purchased from the Harvard University endowment fund in 2020 in a deal worth more than $120 million

Nigeria’s federal government and the Niger Delta Development Commission are preparing to establish a $500 million agribusiness investment fund aimed at accelerating large-scale commercial agriculture across the Niger Delta

A US company’s pursuit of farmland in British Columbia, Canada has reignited calls for stiffer foreign ownership rules.

La localité d’Apouh A Ngog située dans l’arrondissement d’Edéa 1er département de la Sanaga-Maritime, Région du Littoral, se trouve depuis un certain temps au cœur d’un conflit foncier historique opposant les populations locales à la Société camerounaise de palmeraies (Socapalm) concernant la rétrocession de près de 200 hectares de terres ancestrales.

Uganda’s National Social Security Fund is in discussions with partners in the United Arab Emirates to attract investment into Uganda’s agriculture sector and position the East African country as a strategic food production hub for the Gulf natio

Les exploitations de plus de 100 hectares contrôlent 73 % de la surface agricole utile française. Leur nombre a chuté de 20 % en dix ans ; leur taille moyenne a triplé en quarante ans. À l’échelle européenne, 3 % des exploitations concentrent la moitié des surfaces cultivées.

Thousands of farmers losing their land rights in the Bas-Mangoky area of Madagascar have been protesting an 8,000 ha project funded by the African Development Bank. One is in jail for speaking out.

Depuis quelques années, des milliers de paysannes et paysans de la zone Bas-Mangoky dans la région Atsimo-Andrefana (Sud-Ouest de Madagascar) défendent leurs droits fonciers face à un projet financé par la Banque Africaine de Développement. L'une d'entre elles est incarcerée.

The Syrian Sovereign Fund and Saudi Arabia’s Al Muhaidib Group signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday in Damascus that focuses on cattle farming and dairy production in cooperation with a leading European dairy company.

"The federal government has broken its covenant with the Australian people by agreeing to turn productive farmland into a monoculture pine plantation so a foreign investment fund can tick a carbon abatement box," said TasFarmers president Nathan Cox.

Chinese technology firm Tencent has entered a 10-year agreement with Singapore-based carbon developer Thryve.Earth to purchase credits generated from an agroforestry project on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi

Oil palm giant Presco Plc says it plans to establish operations in Ogun state with an initial investment of about $100 million.

Future of Egypt had been mandated to reclaim about 4.5 million feddans, equal to nearly half of Egypt’s current cultivated land, including areas in the western desert and in Sinai, and land near Sudan and Libya.