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 Pointer
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21 September 2025
The fund owns 17 kiwifruit orchards in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty and Northland.
- BusinessDesk
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18 September 2025
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.
- Weekly Times
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17 September 2025
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.
- Al Manassa
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11 September 2025
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.
- Mongabay
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10 September 2025
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.
- Produce News
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09 September 2025
Germany's largest fertiliser company invests in German fund pursuing large-scale agriculture and forestry projects for carbon credits in Africa.
- Further Africa
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09 September 2025
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.
- News Ghana
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09 September 2025
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.
- La Caisse
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08 September 2025
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.
- Iberian Lawyer
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08 September 2025
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.
- Shafaq News
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08 September 2025
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.
- Dawan Africa
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07 September 2025
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.
- Bloomberg
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06 September 2025
L'American Forest Foundation a signé un contrat de 15 ans avec Netflix pour l'achat de crédits carbone vérifiés générés par son programme Fields & Forests, une initiative visant à convertir des terres agricoles sous-exploitées en forêts exploitables.
- Actualités ESG
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05 September 2025
The American Forest Foundation announced that it has signed a 15-year contract with Netflix, with the entertainment giant committing to purchase verified carbon credits produced through AFF’s carbon project aimed at transitioning underused fields in the US South into forests.
- ESG Today
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04 September 2025
The agreement involves Qatar securing and irrigating farmlands in Ghana, allocating them to farmers for large-scale cultivation, and subsequently purchasing the produce for export to Qatar.
- News Ghana
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04 September 2025
The UK's AgDevCo has made a $7 million investment in Planting Naturals, a producer of organic palm oil in Sierra Leone that operates a vertically integrated model, sourcing fruits from both its own plantations and a growing network of smallholder farmers.
- Africa Private Equity News
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03 September 2025
The tree-planting campaign is the first implementation phase of a 30-year project involving 14 classified forests in the Lagunes and Comoé districts, covering a total area of 155,000 hectares, in which up to 12 million trees will be planted in abandoned or unused areas, produced in nurseries managed by local communities and cooperatives.
- Key Facts Energy
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03 September 2025
The Civil Society Oil Palm Working Group of Liberia has called on the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to immediately reinstate the stop-work order on Golden Veroleum Liberia, citing unresolved compliance issues and unfulfilled conditions related to land use and community rights.
- Daily Observer
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02 September 2025
President William Ruto has moved to mediate the dispute over Yala Swamp in Siaya County, where local communities are clashing with investors over control of the vast farmland.
O conglomerado japonês estuda aportar R$ 10 bilhões (US$ 1,8 bilhão) na joint venture Raízen, diluindo a participação da brasileira Cosan e da britânica Shell, diante do endividamento que chegou a R$ 49,2 bilhões no último balanço. Nos últimos 12 meses a ações da Raízen perderam 61%, e R$ 20,4 bilhões em valor de mercado.
- www.theagribiz.com
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02 September 2025
The controlling shareholders of Brazil sugar and ethanol producer Raizen SA, which controls 1.3 million hectares of sugar cane plantations, are in talks to sell a stake to Mitsubishi Corp. as part of a plan to raise capital.
- Bloomberg
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02 September 2025
Under the agreement, community development (education, healthcare, livelihoods and infrastructure) will be linked to the company's profits in Sierra Leone.
"Existing disputes related to land lease, environmental concerns and support to the community have remained challenging," the Chief Minister says
- Office of the Chief Minister
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01 September 2025
Chinese investors from China Overseas Engineering Co. Ltd. announced plans to invest $150 million in 4,000 hectares of land to be provided by the Katsina State government.
- Nigeria Startup Act
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01 September 2025
The investors are seeking more than 70,000 hectares of land for large scale project rice and maze farming, cassaba processing, solar energy and the assembly of agricultural machineries.
- TVC News
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01 September 2025