A subsidiary of UAE financial firm Talc Investments has acquired a large plot of land in the heart of previously well-known banana territories in the province of Somaliland.

Limoneira Company has announced the closing of the sale of its 3,537 acre lemon farm operation in Tulare County, California to PGIM Agricultural Investments, a business unit of PGIM Real Estate Finance, LLC.

PNG's Trade Minister says over 100,000 ha of lands can be made available for a rice farming project with investors from the Philippines in the areas of Brown River, Vanapa, Gabadi and Bereina.

The Honduras Solidarity Network in North America strongly condemns the wave of murders of land and water defenders in the Bajo Aguan region of Colon, Honduras in recent weeks.

A team of investors headed by the former Philippines Department of Agriculture Secretary has chosen Gabadi in the Kairuku District of Central Province as the ideal location for a large-scale rice farm.

With favourable global economic conditions, including current high commodity prices, and with Australia’s exchange rate at sub USD 0.70, big properties around Australia are changing hands with overseas investors buying in.

A push to ban foreign companies from owning farmland in the US state of Missouri is facing pushback from major industry groups.

The deal is the second $100 million-plus farming transaction involving offshore investors this year, highlighting the global appeal of prime Australian farmland.

A group of farmers and pastoralists from Zindiwa Community in Nigeria's Bauchi State are suing the state government over the allocation of 10,000 hectares of farmland to Tiamin Rice limited.

Government says it will not give company a concession for an additional 10,000ha of land in Mondulkiri province, in accordance with a 2012 government decision.

Bishops say they are witnessing a veritable avalanche of citizens from other countries in the African region and even from other parts of the world buying up land in the Central African Republic.

The $5 million investment is the first in what Patricof Co. stated will be a broader farmland strategy that will ultimately include investments in four more US farms.