As 401(k) plan sponsors look to improve diversification and long-term outcomes, real assets such as timber and farmland are moving closer to the center of the conversation, alongside private markets like real estate and private credit.

Australia’s Oyster Coast (AOC), a portfolio company of Roc Partners and the country’s largest producer, processor, and marketer of Sydney Rock oysters, announced it has expanded its footprint through the acquisition of an oyster farm in the Pambula estuary on the far South Coast of New South Wales.

Le député non-inscrit Tahirou Sarr a transmis au président de l’Assemblée nationale une proposition de loi visant à protéger le foncier national et à instaurer une véritable souveraineté foncière au Sénégal. Cette initiative intervient dans un contexte de multiplication des acquisitions foncières par des entités étrangères.

Qu’elles soient Danone (France), Senegindia (Inde), Ovidi Tender (Roumanie), China Agricultural Development (Chine), India Agri Ventures (Inde), Senegal Agricorp (États‐ Unis) ou Franck Timis (Roumanie), ces entreprises étrangères ont été largement servies. Une proposition de loi de Tahirou Sarr exige entre autres la révocation de ces titres fonciers en titres révocables et précaires ouvrant la voie à une renationalisation.

A Dubai-based consumer electronics manufacturer, Maser Group, is making a major strategic pivot into agriculture and artificial intelligence infrastructure across Africa, committing $1.6 billion to farmland development and data centres in Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya over the next two years.

The partnership aims to identify and develop large‑scale agricultural land, targetting an initial 10,000 hectares of irrigated farmland, with a potential expansion to another 10,000 hectares.

The project envisions cultivating sugar beets on about 52,000 hectares that Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Agriculture has already designated in the Gallaorol and Farish districts for sugar beet cultivation.

A Swiss company called ASC Impact GmbH is developing a tree planting project in the Gambela region of Ethiopia covering a total area of 27,500 hectares, with about 20,000 hectares to be planted with eucalyptus and acacia trees.

Report by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, outlines the problems of the immense concentration of land in the hands of corporate actors and the important legal tools to counteract this destructive force.

Une société d'investissement de Saint-Gall, en Suisse, promet de concilier protection du climat, aide au développement et rendement financier grâce à un projet en Éthiopie. Mais une communauté locale tire la sonnette d'alarme.

A Swiss-based investment firm promises to combine climate protection, development aid, and returns with a plantation project in Ethiopia. But a local community is raising the alarm

What started as a modest 10-hectare pilot farm in 2020 has now scaled to over 220 hectares under cultivation, with 500 hectares in total under ownership or lease.

A Michigan pension fund wanted to grow the second-largest coffee farm in Hawaii. What happened there demonstrates the perils of investing public workers’ savings in private markets.

Led by Terraformation, Green Lions is launching on an initial area of 8,289 hectares located within the communal forests of Ndélélé and Bétaré-Oya where it will combine native forest restoration and cocoa-based agroforestry.

Dozens of residents from Buol Regency, Central Sulawesi staged a land occupation on a 149-hectare plot of land that they say has been illegally occupied and planted with oil palms by the company PT. Hardaya Inti Plantation.