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UAE plans to invest USD 30mln for rice production in Angola
- ANGOP
- 19 December 2023
E20 Investment of UAE plan to use 5,000 hectares in Angola for rice cultivation and 500 hectares for avocado production.
Cameroon: Women determined to recover their lands occupied by Socapalm/Socfin oil palm company
- WRM
- 19 December 2023
The Afrise women's association launched an international petition to stop the replanting of oil palm monocultures around their homes and over the grave sites of their ancestors.
Saudis put Western Australia’s largest grain operation up for sale
- AFR
- 19 December 2023
The largest grain growing operation in Western Australia is expected to fetch close to $200 million after its owners, the Saudi Arabian government and a Perth-headquartered agricultural fund decided to sell.
Why the future of farming is taking lessons from commercial real estate
- QUartz
- 18 December 2023
Farmland LP buys climate-resilient land, gets it certified organic, selects profitable crops, and picks up the tab on equipment. Then it rents fields to local farmers who want to increase production.
Klimat X announces BP Carbon Trading Limited as first funding partner of restoration project
- Investing News
- 18 December 2023
The funding agreement secured with a British Petroleum subsidiary for US$2.5 million will support the planting and development of 5,000 ha of degraded land in Sierra Leone
Autralia: Costa family backs $120m raising for Riverina almond project
- Commercial Real Estate
- 17 December 2023
The Costa family has joined other wealthy families and an institutional investor in piling into a $120 million equity raising to fund the acquisition and development of three irrigation properties.
The slow massacre: East Phillips and North Desha Counties, Arkansas, then and now
- Arkansas Review
- 16 December 2023
How US pension fund TIAA purchased farmland with a legacy of racism and murder
Billionaire Mark Cuban backing $1 billion Congo carbon plan
- Bloomberg
- 13 December 2023
A climate startup co-founded by a businessman behind a botched land deal for 400,000 ha in South Sudan has signed a deal to generate $1 billion of carbon credits in the DRC.
Tanzania unveils world-class investment opportunities in agribusiness
- TBI
- 13 December 2023
Tanzania is offering more than 60,000 hectares of fertile land to both foreign and domestic companies to invest in large-scale farming at Mkulazi area in Morogoro.
Indonesia prepares 1 mln hectares for sugar factories in Papua
- Antara
- 12 December 2023
The government is preparing one million hectares of land in Papua for investors interested in building sugar factories to help Indonesia achieve sugar self-sufficiency, says Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman.
Al Dahra and Agreena announce carbon farming project on the EU’s largest arable farm at COP28
- Agreena
- 12 December 2023
A partnership between UAE agribusiness, Al Dahra, and Danish climate agtech company, Agreena, will see the largest consolidated arable farm in the European Union transition to regenerative agriculture.
Large-scale landscape restoration: Spades and the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD announce partnerships
- PR Newswire
- 11 December 2023
US-based Spades reaches landscape restoration agreements with Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cote d'Ivoire for projects that span around 10 million hectares and involve the planting of 1.5 billion trees.