Around the same time security forces were destroying markets and shops on Lubigi, two flower farms belonging to Uganda’s richest man, Sudhir Ruparelia, could be seen extending their reach into wetlands outside Kampala.
The $3.4 billion pension fund of Sonoma County, California committed up to $125 million to Fiera Comox Global Agricultural Fund to complement its investment in UBS AgriVest Farmland Fund
Calgary-based Veripath has rapidly grown, operating on the conviction that global demand for agricultural products make farmland – particularly Canadian farmland a prime long-term investment.
The Zambian farming company, backed by Norfund and the World Bank's IFC, has been sold by South Africa's Zeder Investments to a group of businessmen.
The Nigerian firm says it is embarking on Phase II of its sugar project, which will cover over 100,000 hectares to make the sugar plant, the largest in Africa.
The project, which is a joint venture between Northsworthy Farms, and Allied Industries Limited and Nigeria's Delta State Government had planted over 250,000 oil palm trees in over 1,400 hectares of land.
About 100 families from two villages in southern Laos were forced to give up 190 hectares of farmland to a company that will build a cassava processing plant after Lao soldiers threatened them if they did not comply.
Organisations call upon the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to undo certifications to Socfin, Africa's biggest plantation company.
The Town Chief of Henai Village in Malen Chiefdom was remanded at the Pujehun Correctional Centre in Southern Sierra Leone after he was accused of stealing palm kernel from the plantation of SOCFIN Agricultural Company.
Senator Rounds noted on his website that this new legislation will also bar investment in US agribusiness from Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
A claim circulating on social media that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has sold off 17 million hectares of farmland to US corporations is baseless.
Macquarie Asset Management is stepping up its investment in farmland, taking control of Cowal Agriculture, a cropping enterprise affiliated with US-based Global Endowment Management.
