Tajikistan leased around 18,000 hectares of its land to China for cotton, rice, grain, and corn cultivation for a 49-year contract. The agreement was part of a broader initiative to strengthen economic ties between the two countries.
- Global Voices
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18 November 2024
The attorney general of the US state of Arizona is set to launch legal proceeding in the next two weeks against the Saudi dairy company Almarai over groundwater pumping on two farms in the state.
- Arabian Gulf Business Insight
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14 November 2024
President Bio called on the leadership of Socfin Agricultural Company and the stakeholders of Sahn Malen Chiefdom to foster dialogue, collaboration, and mutual respect
- State House
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14 November 2024
Oil trader Trafigura and Singapore's Temasek will produce carbon credits by planting 24 million trees in Colombia's in Orinoco River Basin on 30,000 hectares of land that has been degraded by cattle grazing.
- ESG Today
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11 November 2024
Irrigation projects include a US$172mn, 23,000ha project with US-based Valley Irrigation , a €75mn, 13,000 ha project with Spain's Grupo Charmatin, and a US$100mn, 20,000 ha project with US-based Lindsay Zimmatic.
- Sunday Mail
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10 November 2024
UAE agribusiness giant Al Dahra, owned by Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, is looking for up to 100,000 hectares to produce food in Mato Grosso
- CenárioMT
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05 November 2024
In addition to the greenfield port north of Port Sudan, the project would have included a 400,000-acre agricultural development in the Nile region, hundreds of miles of new roadways, a large free trade zone
- Sudan Tribune
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05 November 2024
A group of non-profits say the German companies may be in breach of national due diligence law, due to a failure to ‘interrogate and act on’ risks in their soya supply chain.
- SustainableViews
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04 November 2024
Institutional investors are driving movement in Australia's poultry farm property market, underscoring sustained demand for agricultural assets that offer steady, passive income.
- Grain Central
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04 November 2024
A trio of dairy farms spanning a combined 570 hectares in the state’s north have been listed for sale after more than a decade in the hands of Swedish owners.
- The Weekly Times
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04 November 2024
Paghimutad investigates the social and environmental costs of the controversial 6,000-hectare palm oil plantation owned by construction firm Consunji in Candoni town of Negros Occidental.
- Paghimutad
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03 November 2024
A large contingent of policemen, including elite force personnel, were sent to subdue peasants protesting for two days against the government’s decision to reallocate 528 acres of their “ancestral land” — cultivated by them for nearly a century — to a private company.