Ghana's finance minister says large-scale agricultural transformation requires patient capital, and that is why his government is working closely with the World Bank, IFC, and other development partners to mobilise financing and catalyse private sector participation.
The Mayuge hub — which also covers Bugiri and Namayingo districts — marks the first phase of an oil palm cultivation project in Busoga, following years of preparation and feasibility studies.
Guyana's Minister of Agriculture told a private sector delegation from the Brazilian state of Roraima that Region Nine was an ideal area for expanding agricultural investments, with availability of land suitable for mega-farms.
Une enquête accablante révèle les zones d’ombre autour de près de 1 000 hectares de concessions foncières, plongeant les communautés locales dans un bras de fer avec la puissante filiale de Socfin.
La Socapalm, filiale de groupe Socfin, a publié un communiqué officiel contestant un rapport de Green Development Advocate
Liberian civil society and international allies are urgently demanding the RSPO maintain its stop-work order on GVL’s expansion to prevent further deforestation, protect communities’ rights, and ensure accountability for the company’s environmental and human rights violations.
Face aux événements survenus dans le pays, la paysannerie malgache unie s'oppose aux baux de location de terre accordés aux étrangers et demande leur arrêt. Elle revendique la priorisation de l’attribution de terre aux paysans malgaches.
Taking over Olam Agri would fit into Saudi Arabia’s food security strategy, which calls for investing in global companies to lock in supply and encourage them to bring production to the kingdom.
The Saskatchewan Government has made regulatory amendments to ensure Saskatchewan farm land is not owned by foreigners or corporations, and has removed an exemption that allowed the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to own land.
Chilean farmland investor Toesca and its London-based partner Astarte Capital Partners host an inaugural conference, with presentations from Nuveen Capital and Chile's public pension fund AFP.
En 2025 sigue activándose el fenómeno de acumulación de tierras rurales en manos extranjeras en Uruguay, despertando alertas sobre soberanía, equilibrio productivo y el futuro de los pequeños productores.
DMCI President Isidro Consunji said the family's agriculture business was developing a 12,000-hectare African palm oil plantation in Negros Occidental, as well as a partnership with Japan's Marubeni and UP Los Baños to plant 1.5 million trees across 15,000 hectares for carbon credits.
Legal analysis note by Green Development Advocates presents the blatant illegalities underlying the land issue at the SOCAPALM-Edéa plantation in Cameroon
Funding from Italy will go towards the development of a 10,000 hectare model farm for the production of maize, rice, tomatoes, and soya managed by the Italian company BF International.
Officials of the Malagasy state have leased land in three municipalities of the Ihorombe region to the company Tozzi Green for 30 years. Numerous studies have shown the pressures and manipulations exerted by the authorities, at all levels, to force local communities to accept the company's land use. Some residents refused to the end. Others, among those who agreed, say that they now regret having done so. New information now emerges.
Des responsables de l’Etat malgache ont loué des terres dans trois communes de la région Ihorombe à l'entreprise Tozzi Green pour 30 ans. De nombreuses études ont montré les pressions et les manipulations exercées par les autorités, à tous les niveaux, pour contraindre les communautés locales à accepter l’exploitation des terres par l'entreprise. De nouvelles informations surgissent.
Une note d'analyse juridique, publiée par Green Development Advocates du Cameroun, examine les illégalités liées à la problématique foncière dans les localités d'Apouh et environs.
The World Bank's IFC is set to expand its agriculture-focused investing with two proposed commitments targeting early-stage agri-tech in Africa and a timber and nature-based carbon removal fund managed by Patria Investments in Brazil.
Dubbed the ‘Rima Project’, the initiative centres on the cultivation of 150,000 jojoba trees across a 1.2 million m² desert landscape at Rima in the Wilayat of Haima, within the Block 6 concession of Petroleum Development Oman
China and other nations are investing in African agriculture to diversify away from US trade, with China removing tariffs on imports from African countries with which it has diplomatic ties, and Qatar and the United Arab Emirates investing in farming and infrastructure.
La situation à la Ferme de la Teranga - 20 000 hectares detenus par la société amércaine African Agriculture Inc - suscite l’indignation générale. Les travailleurs, pour la plupart en contrat à durée indéterminée (CDI), dénoncent des conditions de vie et de travail devenues intenables.
Billions in investment are promised, but past deals show shaky records and risks
A new report details the size and scale of foreign investment, with more than 49mn hectares of Aussie farmland now in overseas ownership. The UK holds the largest share (7.38mn hectares) while China ranks second (6.57mn hectares).
Water resource “hedge funds” and corporate farms are running the desert dry.
La primera inversión es para la adquisición de Pollos Amanecer, una marca local de pollo que opera una planta en el distrito de Doctor Juan Eulogio Estigarribia, también conocido como Campo 9, en el departamento de Caaguazú, una de las regiones agrícolas más grandes de Paraguay, con fácil acceso a los cultivos.
Senador afirma que un millón 168 mil hectáreas del territorio colombiano se encuentran en manos de inversionistas extranjeros y quer regular mecanismos de control y transparencia en la compra de terrenos rurales por parte de capital extranjero.
Iraq’s agriculture minister has offered Saudi investors one million hectares of farmland.
The Brazilian meat giant says its expansion plans for a poultry complex in the department of Caaguazú that it acquired through its take over of Pollos Amanecer will include 28 farms to supply genetic material, hatcheries and a feed factory
BrewDog has sold a 9,300-acre estate in the Scottish Cairngorms to a specialist carbon credit company after ditching plans to go “carbon negative” by planting trees on the site.
As part of a project with the Dangote Group, the Niger State Government, through the Niger Food Security System and Logistics Company Limited, has signed a land lease agreement with communities in Wushishi Local Government Area, aimed at boosting rice production.
