The billions of cubic meters of Nile water, rainwater, and treated sewage water that have been pumped into Egypt's recent large-scale desert agriculture projects have come at the expense of the country's small farmers.
- Al Manassa
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11 September 2025
A land dispute between residents of a Cameroonian village and a major palm oil company remains unresolved despite protests and requests for meetings with authorities, NGOs and community members say.
- Mongabay
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10 September 2025
The venture includes 952 acres across seven orchards, of which 311 acres are certified organic, and 272 acres are in transition to organic over the next four years.
- Produce News
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09 September 2025
Germany's largest fertiliser company invests in German fund pursuing large-scale agriculture and forestry projects for carbon credits in Africa.
- Further Africa
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09 September 2025
The sugar refinery will be located in Kwame-Danso in Ghana’s Bono Region, with a daily sugarcane crushing capacity of 12,000 tons and a 25,000-hectare irrigated farmland operation designed to support sustainable local production.
- News Ghana
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09 September 2025
Banco Santander has structured and financed a €37 million agribusiness project in Spain that is backed by Spanish firm Arcano Partners, supporting the acquisition of agricultural land and the development of a large-scale avocado plantation.
- Iberian Lawyer
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08 September 2025
The Iraqi Fund for External Development (IFED) said that one of its four agricultural ventures in Sudan has stopped operating, without providing any reason for the halt.
- Shafaq News
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08 September 2025
La Caisse has invested $200 million alongside a $50 million commitment from the CEFC to create the Meldora platform (Meldora), managed by Australian agriculture and natural capital asset manager, Gunn Agri Partners (GAP). Meldora has purchased its first asset, a broadacre and irrigation farm of more than 15,000 hectares in Central Queensland.
The Somaliland administration and the UK's Pharo Foundation signed an 18-month lease agreement for an irrigation project covering 5,800 hectares, under which Pharo will pay $10 per hectare annually, a figure that opponents argue is far below market value.
- Dawan Africa
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07 September 2025
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr this week signed the law liberalising the lease of private lands by foreign investors., which aims to encourage investors to build industrial estates and factories as well as tourism and agriculture projects in the archipelago.
- Bloomberg
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06 September 2025
The American Forest Foundation announced that it has signed a 15-year contract with Netflix, with the entertainment giant committing to purchase verified carbon credits produced through AFF’s carbon project aimed at transitioning underused fields in the US South into forests.
- ESG Today
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04 September 2025
The agreement involves Qatar securing and irrigating farmlands in Ghana, allocating them to farmers for large-scale cultivation, and subsequently purchasing the produce for export to Qatar.
- News Ghana
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04 September 2025