One of Europe's top pension fund managers buys two New Zealand forestry plantations stretching over 45,000 ha, citing interest in long term development of carbon sequestration.

GRAIN objects to the Land Matrix's exclusion of “community- or farmer-based projects” from its recent report on global land deals for carbon projects.

Kenya has become a global hotspot in the rapidly expanding market for land-based carbon offsets, with more than 5.4 million hectares now tied to projects that benefit foreign investors far more than local communities.

Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, CON, is in Beijing to conclude talks with the Chinese Government on the Model Integrated Poultry Development Project, a major investment expected to create about 350,000 direct and indirect jobs and generate over $450 million annually.

U.S. company NCH Capital said on Friday that it has no plans to sell major Russian agricultural producer AgroTerra, after the head of Russia's second-largest bank said it was in talks to buy the firm, which cultivates 265,000 hectares in Russia

Land inequality remains the most enduring and destabilising injustice in Kenya, shaping who owns wealth, who accesses opportunities and who remains trapped in a cycle of marginalisation, with less than two per cent of Kenyans owning more than half of the country’s arable land.

The strategy seeks to mobilize US$ 1 billion to protect, restore, and reforest approximately 270,000 hectares of degraded areas.

Russia's second-largest bank VTB is in talks to buy a major agricultural producer owned by US-based NCH that farms on 290,000 hectares across several regions of Russia.

A Lansing-based organisation that manages employee retirement plans for Michigan local governments is accused of losing $100mn on a coffee plantation venture in Hawaii and fraudulently misleading a lender into contributing $40mn to the project before abandoning it.

A palm oil company owned by Indonesian tycoon Alexander Thaslim has cleared nearly 1,500 hectares of rainforest since it began operating last year in Kapuas Hulu, a landlocked district deep in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province

Presco/SIAT plans to start a large oil palm project covering 10,000 hectares of land across 52 communities in Abia State, Nigeria, and will be sending a technical team to choose suitable sites, study both new and existing farmland, and collect soil samples for testing.

The investor, Pan-Tanzania Agriculture Developments Limited, has been allocated 62,000 acres in Kilwa District, Lindi Region, where it will cultivate cassava and process it locally for export to China