The strategy for Lombard Odier is to create nature-based investment assets by deploying capital into monoculture coffee plantations near forests and to re-forest them, creating shaded, biodiverse agroforests.

Bonifiche Ferraresi, one of the largest agricultural companies by cultivated area in Europe, acquires a 1,700 ha banana plantation in the Volta River region and another concession of 5,900 hectares for further cultivation.

Ukrainian businesses can now legally buy land in Ukraine as of Jan. 1 as part of the second phase of a historic decision in March 2020 to lift a near 20-year moratorium on the sale of land.

With over 48,000 ha of coffee cultivation potential in the plateau area, Asia Investment Development and Construction Sole Co and Petroleum Authority of Thailand envision generating substantial carbon credits.

The farm intends to cultivate 500 acres of field crops and has already leased 100 acres from the Guyana Lands & Surveys Commission which has made arrangements for another 150 acres held by farmers under lease from the government.

After the Ondo State government allocated SAO Agro thousands of hectares in the Oluwa Forest Reserve for an oil palm plantation, it moved into the forest with full force and left trails of blood and devastation.

The Petroleum Authority of Thailand, owner of the Café Amazon chain, expects the partnership will eventually establish a 48,000 hectare coffee plantation on the Bolaven Plateau, which will open up opportunities for the sale of carbon credits.

A loan from the World Bank's IFC will enable the firm to develop a 536-hectare shrimp farm in the Guayas coastal province and discussions are underway for the potential addition of 500 hectares in Panama.

Pakistan is offering land with preferential policies, especially in areas prone to floods, as part of their efforts to support the chili industry and mitigate the impact of climate change

African Agriculture Holdings Inc. - which took over 20,000 ha in northern Senegal formerly held by Senhuile - will export its entire alfalfa crop to South Korea

The Pakistan government has given the military a significant stake in a 4.8 million acre agricultural project in the Cholistan desert, raising questions over profits made from public lands and the impacts on small farmers.

Maharlika will convert 2 million hectares of "idle government land" to agro-industrial estates, where foreign investors will be invited to build facilities

Nearly 40,000 individuals have been displaced from their land to give way to land based investments in Kiryandongo district, Uganda.

The funding agreement secured with a British Petroleum subsidiary for US$2.5 million will support the planting and development of 5,000 ha of degraded land in Sierra Leone

The Costa family has joined other wealthy families and an institutional investor in piling into a $120 million equity raising to fund the acquisition and development of three irrigation properties.

Tanzania is offering more than 60,000 hectares of fertile land to both foreign and domestic companies to invest in large-scale farming at Mkulazi area in Morogoro.

US-based Spades reaches landscape restoration agreements with Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cote d'Ivoire for projects that span around 10 million hectares and involve the planting of 1.5 billion trees.

Local residents who were evicted from their land for a 42,000 hectare sugar cane plantation are all the more bitter now that the unprofitable and poorly financed agricultural project has collapsed.

Governor Mohammed Bago of Nigeria's Niger State has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Blue Carbon for a carbon capture project to plant one billion new trees on 760,000 hectares in the state.

PLAAS continues its discussion with Yan Hariong, exploring China’s ‘Going Out Policy' and its intricate linkages with other developing countries, especially in Africa

Upon listing, African Agriculture will be the first pure-play US-listed agriculture company operating in Africa.

The people of Okomu community in Edo State have decried the alleged neglect and marginalisation of the area by Okomu Palm Oil, a multinational company and the management of National Park.

Una investigación de seis meses de Gideon Sarpong, Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi y Audrey Travère ha sacado a la luz las graves repercusiones que la explotación de los recursos de caucho y aceite de palma del Grupo Socfin han causado en la deforestación y el desplazamiento forzado de poblaciones indígenas en Nigeria y Ghana.

Grupo Socfin han causado la deforestación y el desplazamiento forzado de poblaciones indígenas en Nigeria y Ghana con el avance de los monocultivos de palma aceitera y caucho.

« Les accaparements de terre sont une grande source de changement climatique en Afrique », rappelle à RFI Wisdom Koffi, un militant ghanéen

SAO Agro-Allied Service Limited was granted 100,000 hectares by the Ondo state government to cultivate oil palm, but some portions of the company’s concession are said to overlap with thousands of smallholder farms.

Amidst intensified conflicts stemming from the presence of the Socfin Agricultural Company in the Chiefdom, the event aimed to address longstanding grievances and foster a path toward peace and development.

Some of Western Australia's most sought-after cattle country is set to move from Chinese to Canadian ownership in a newly struck deal.

Canada's federal government needs to convince the provinces to ban investors from buying the country’s agricultural land so farmers can use it to produce food, the National Farmers Union has urged.

MPE is buying 8,350 hectares from P.T. Agro Bumi Kaltim and P.T. Nusantara Agro Sentosa, of which 1,686 hectares are managed on behalf of associated smallholder co-operatives.