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New Zealand farmers battle pine forests to 'save our sheep'
- Japan Times
- 28 July 2025
New Zealand sheep farmers are fighting to stop the loss of pasture to fast-spreading pine plantations, which earn government subsidies to soak up carbon emissions.
With a pilot, NABARD taps into carbon credit market in Karnataka
- 28 July 2025
India's National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development and Rabo Bank are pursuing a project in Karnataka to plant trees on mango plantations as a way to generate carbon credits.
How one French billionaire built an African empire
- Buried Signals
- 27 July 2025
A French billionaire controls 400,000 hectares across Africa through a web of Swiss companies and colonial-era land titles. This is how modern extraction works.
Ruto’s food security bet: How Galana-Kulalu is picking up pace
- The Star
- 26 July 2025
The Kenyan government has awarded sections of the 250,000-acre irrigation scheme to three firms: Selu Africa Limited, Nyumbani Foundation, and Al Dahra of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
China deepens Angola dood-supply ties with second deal in a week
- Bloomberg
- 25 July 2025
Sinohydro Group of China will invest more than $100 million in Angola to develop a 25-year, tax-free 30,000 hectare land concession to produce soybeans for export.
Queensland’s foreign land tax is ‘chilling’ ag investment
- Sheep Central
- 23 July 2025
Farmland investors say a tax imposed uniquely by Queensland on foreign-owned agricultural land is having a “chilling effect” on new investment and prompting existing offshore investors to divest Queensland assets and replace them with investments in other states.
Hundreds of Brazil’s biggest pension funds could pour up to US$22.89 billion into agribusiness investments
- O Joio e o Trigo
- 21 July 2025
Despite a track record of financing linked to land grabbing and deforestation, agricultural investment funds, or Fiagros, have been cleared by Brazil’s Monetary Council to receive up to 10% of pension fund assets
China’s Citic to develop large soybean, corn farms in Angola
- Bloomberg
- 21 July 2025
Citic Construction Co. will invest $250 million over five years to develop as much as 100,000 hectares of land, according to Fan Juntao, the managing director of the company in Angola.
Australia: Macquarie puts its sprawling Paraway agricultural empire on the block
- AFR
- 21 July 2025
One of the country's biggest agricultural landholders is set to hit the auction block after Macquarie Asset Management told investors it would take its Paraway Pastoral Company to market after 17 years of ownership.
Pakistan, Sudan explore joint agricultural ventures in high-level bilateral meeting
- Profit
- 18 July 2025
Sudan proposed a trilateral partnership to combine Sudan’s fertile land, Pakistan’s agricultural expertise, and Saudi investment to launch impactful joint ventures.
Uganda: A land rights defender and his wife have been arrested, charged, and sent to prison.
- Witness Radio
- 18 July 2025
Community land Rights defender Olupot James and his wife Apio Sarah are amongst a few remaining families that resisted the Kiryandongo Sugar Limited's violent eviction and repression.
Brazilian firm behind SAF plan found growing oil palm on deforested Amazon land
- Climate Home News
- 18 July 2025
Discovery of illegal palm crops comes as Grupo BBF grapples with financial problems sparked by warnings over its human rights record