Agriculture and livestock are fast emerging as priority areas under the umbrella of Pakistan's Special Investment Facilitation Council and, last year, a Saudi agribusiness firm signed an agreement to cultivate 5,000 acres of alfalfa fodder for export.
Land grabbing never disappeared but has persisted and transformed, shaped by geopolitics, financialization, and climate policies.
Dutch pension fund ABP bought 173,000 acres of land in August for $462 million and says its mandate now is focused 100% on impact investments within forestry and agriculture
Sekem Holding has signed a contract with the Egyptian government to acquire approximately 23,500 feddans (9,870 hectares) in the Toshka Basin.
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.
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.
The deal covers the establishment and development of a 10,000-hectare pilot farm in Tagadi, located in the Sorobango sub-prefecture
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.
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.
Under the agreement, Rainforest Builder will expand its operations to restore at least 15,000 hectares of degraded forest land, plant over 2 million indigenous trees
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
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.
The Brazilian federal government is studying a proposal to create an agribusiness investment fund (Fiagro) to attract foreign investors willing to become equity partners with farmers seeking to recover and convert degraded pastures.
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,
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"
The fund owns 17 kiwifruit orchards in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty and Northland.
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.
Programa Caminho Verde Brasil com foco em converter 40 milhões de ha de pastos degrados em monocultivos de soja pretende atrair investimentos estrangeiros oferencendo sociedade em terras agrícolas - modelos equity - ou por meio de pagamento com o produto da colheita - barter. Fiagros são visados para bular lei que limite controle de terras por estrangeiros.
Agriculture investment is evolving globally. Once focused on farmland, today’s investors are targeting entire supply chains. Rising costs and flat land prices are pressuring returns, and the focus is shifting to yield, resilience and ESG-linked income.
The billions of cubic meters of Nile water, rainwater, and treated sewage water that have been pumped into Egypt's recent large-scale desert agriculture projects have come at the expense of the country's small farmers.
A land dispute between residents of a Cameroonian village and a major palm oil company remains unresolved despite protests and requests for meetings with authorities, NGOs and community members say.
The venture includes 952 acres across seven orchards, of which 311 acres are certified organic, and 272 acres are in transition to organic over the next four years.
Germany's largest fertiliser company invests in German fund pursuing large-scale agriculture and forestry projects for carbon credits in Africa.
The sugar refinery will be located in Kwame-Danso in Ghana’s Bono Region, with a daily sugarcane crushing capacity of 12,000 tons and a 25,000-hectare irrigated farmland operation designed to support sustainable local production.
La CEFC (Australie) et La Caisse (Québec) ont lancé une plateforme agricole diversifiée à grande échelle pour générer des crédits carbone de haute qualité, pour laquelle Rio Tinto sera l’acheteur principal.
Banco Santander has structured and financed a €37 million agribusiness project in Spain that is backed by Spanish firm Arcano Partners, supporting the acquisition of agricultural land and the development of a large-scale avocado plantation.
The Iraqi Fund for External Development (IFED) said that one of its four agricultural ventures in Sudan has stopped operating, without providing any reason for the halt.
La Caisse has invested $200 million alongside a $50 million commitment from the CEFC to create the Meldora platform (Meldora), managed by Australian agriculture and natural capital asset manager, Gunn Agri Partners (GAP). Meldora has purchased its first asset, a broadacre and irrigation farm of more than 15,000 hectares in Central Queensland.
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.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr this week signed the law liberalising the lease of private lands by foreign investors., which aims to encourage investors to build industrial estates and factories as well as tourism and agriculture projects in the archipelago.
