It is a subsidiary of Alpha MBM Investments, a Dubai-based company developing a US$4 billion oil refinery in Uganda, whose chairman is a member of Dubai’s royal family.

Christopher Robinson, a local elected official who already controls roughly one million acres of land, acquired the 916,000-acre Pathfinder Ranches just four years after buying the neighboring 86,000-acre Stone Ranch.

The Hong Kong–based carbon project and crypto coin developer signed an agreement for the restoration of approximately 32,000 hectares of mangroves in cooperation with Senegal’s Aire Marine Protégée authorities.

The Arizona state government will start limiting groundwater pumping in a desert valley where a Saudi-owned dairy company grows hay, and where aquifer levels have been dropping.

Communities affected by the operations of the Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) and the Liberia Agriculture Company (LAC) have forcefully rejected Socfin Group’s 2024–2025 progress reports, accusing the multinational agribusiness of masking persistent environmental and human rights abuses behind what they describe as “paper compliance.”

The project dreamt of transforming dunes of Cholistan into farmlands by contracting out vast tracts to private companies who were supposed to vanguard a corporate farming revolution. But the companies involved are disillusioned, with one foot already out the door.

Kernel, one of Ukraine’s largest agribusiness groups, has acquired a major agricultural holding with 41,000 hectares of farmland and a network of grain elevators, in a deal valued at over $100mn, the company confirmed this week.

Delta State Governor charges the Steering Committee of the World Bank-funded Framework for Responsible Investment in Land-Intensive Agriculture to “promote transparency in land acquisition and resettlement for large-scale agribusiness investment."

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto on Wednesday said that Indonesia may seize an additional 4 million to 5 million hectares of palm oil this year

Arizona officials are considering a plan to start regulating groundwater pumping in the rural area 100 miles west of Phoenix, where Fondomonte, part of the Saudi dairy giant Almarai, operates a massive alfalfa farm

The flagship project will be developed at Galana Kulalu in the Tana River and Kilifi counties and is designed to irrigate up to 120,000 hectares of land, marking a decisive shift from rain-fed agriculture to large-scale, irrigation.

Indonesia's defense minister has overseen a drive that has brought an area the size of Switzerland under state control, with the central government taking more than 4 million hectares of plantations, mine concessions and processing facilities.