On February 14, the Agriculture Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding with private firm COM'ON HOLDING & PARTENAIRE to support its plan to develop 150,000 hectares of new rice-growing areas.
A wave of land disputes that began in eastern Uzbekistan has spread to Sirdaryo, where farmers say authorities are using courts, debt enforcement, and administrative pressure to shift farmland into a system that favors foreign, particularly Chinese, investors.
Critics in Suriname are speaking out against plans for a public-private partnership to develop 113,465 hectares of rainforest for industrial agriculture in the district of Nickerie.
After eight years, multinational plantation company Socfin and the environmental consultancy Earthworm Foundation have cut ties.
FCC has convened a coalition of more than 20 investment organizations, including venture capital, private equity and Royal Bank of Canada. It will connect these investors to opportunities in land acquisition, manufacturing and new ag-tech startups, among other projects.
As 401(k) plan sponsors look to improve diversification and long-term outcomes, real assets such as timber and farmland are moving closer to the center of the conversation, alongside private markets like real estate and private credit.
Australia’s Oyster Coast (AOC), a portfolio company of Roc Partners and the country’s largest producer, processor, and marketer of Sydney Rock oysters, announced it has expanded its footprint through the acquisition of an oyster farm in the Pambula estuary on the far South Coast of New South Wales.
A Dubai-based consumer electronics manufacturer, Maser Group, is making a major strategic pivot into agriculture and artificial intelligence infrastructure across Africa, committing $1.6 billion to farmland development and data centres in Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya over the next two years.
The partnership aims to identify and develop large‑scale agricultural land, targetting an initial 10,000 hectares of irrigated farmland, with a potential expansion to another 10,000 hectares.
The project envisions cultivating sugar beets on about 52,000 hectares that Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Agriculture has already designated in the Gallaorol and Farish districts for sugar beet cultivation.
A Swiss company called ASC Impact GmbH is developing a tree planting project in the Gambela region of Ethiopia covering a total area of 27,500 hectares, with about 20,000 hectares to be planted with eucalyptus and acacia trees.
Report by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, outlines the problems of the immense concentration of land in the hands of corporate actors and the important legal tools to counteract this destructive force.
