The initiative dubbed “Tiisi Tenga” (Land of Trees) is expected to restore about 200,000 hectares of degraded lands across 20 communities, mostly along the White Volta River, with a target to sequester approximately 3.4 tonnes of carbon per hectare.
As African leaders, policymakers and researchers gather for the Sixth Conference on Land Policy in Africa (CLPA), civil society groups are issuing a powerful challenge to the dominant development model that treats African land as “vacant,” “underused,” and open for exploitation.
The National Sugar Development Council and the Lee Group have unveiled plans for the establishment of a large-scale sugar production estate in Taraba State, Nigeria
The project has allocated 10,000 hectares in Kadana State, Nigeria, for maize, soybean and poultry production, 7,000 of which is for the crops. The project will later expand to five other states of Nigeria.
The new government must take care to prevent the grabbing of Malagasy land, particularly by foreign actors, during the transition-refoundation period
In Nigeria, CSOs “call on government at all levels to enforce strict regulations on large-scale land acquisitions and agricultural projects. We want guarantee community consultation and consent before the allocation of farmland for industrial operations.”
In Ethiopia and Mauritania, reports from community organizations highlight tensions where Elite Agro projects have displaced smallholders or restricted traditional grazing lands.
Overseas investors could face fewer hurdles to purchase farmland as the Treasurer proposes "automatic approvals" as part of significant reforms.
President Ruto is said to have offered Qatar 2.5 million acres for large-scale irrigation farming, as an opportunity to bolster food security and enhance export capacity for both nations.
Regenerate Asset Management will invest an initial €25 million to acquire over 2,000 hectares of farmland under dairy production in Denmark.
A new report challenges one of the most persistent and harmful myths shaping Africa’s development agenda — the idea that the continent holds vast expanses of “unused” or “underutilised” land waiting to be transformed into industrial farms or carbon markets.
Mirova adds Coca-Cola and the foreign affairs ministries of the UK and Canada as investors in its fund targeted at "low-carbon" agricultural and forestry projects
