Arizona officials are considering a plan to start regulating groundwater pumping in the rural area 100 miles west of Phoenix, where Fondomonte, part of the Saudi dairy giant Almarai, operates a massive alfalfa farm
The flagship project will be developed at Galana Kulalu in the Tana River and Kilifi counties and is designed to irrigate up to 120,000 hectares of land, marking a decisive shift from rain-fed agriculture to large-scale, irrigation.
- China Daily
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05 January 2026
Indonesia's defense minister has overseen a drive that has brought an area the size of Switzerland under state control, with the central government taking more than 4 million hectares of plantations, mine concessions and processing facilities.
- Bloomberg
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04 January 2026
Cashed-up Australian and overseas buyers are battling for prime farmland as agriculture values surge toward a record $100bn, with mega farm sales up to $500m recorded.
El primer mandatario criticó a congresistas señalados por presunto acaparamiento de tierras baldías, en medio del debate sobre la jurisdicción agraria
The collaboration between Al Dahra and the international ports operating arm of AD Ports Group is expected to enhance agricultural supply chains, strengthen food security, and promote sustainable growth in Egypt’s fast-developing regions, particularly in the east and south regions.
- Dredge Wire
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21 December 2025
The Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry has acquired 40,000 acres of land from the Yeji Traditional Council to advance the Feed the Industry programme, part of the broader Feed Ghana Initiative, by attracting investors like Spain's GB Foods that "want litigation-free lands”.
- Joy Online
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19 December 2025
Le plus grand fonds de pension suisse a exclu le groupe Bolloré de son champs d'investissement à cause de son lien avec le groupe Socfin
Edo State Governor brokered peace between host communities and three companies (Nimbel Shaw Limited, Professional Support Farms Limited and Steve Integrated Limited) over the use of government forest reserve land for oil palm cultivation in parts of the state.
Ghana's Chief of the Defence Staff, Lieutenant General William Agyapong, and a delegation of 12 officers visited the farm's seven Zimmatic centre pivot systems, collectively irrigating 815 acres of grain fields under maize, soybean, and sorghum cultivation.
- Goshen Porsche
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18 December 2025
The largest Swiss pension fund has excluded the Bolloré Group from its investment portfolio due to its links with the Socfin Group.
Presco Plc has announced the acquisition of 10,000 hectares across the Nsadop and Boki plantations in Cross River State to expand its oil palm plantations in Nigeria
- Investors King
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18 December 2025
Dalam pengarahan ke kepala daerah se-Papua dan Komite Eksekutif Percepatan Pembangunan Otonomi Khusus Papua (16/12/2025), Prabowo mempertegas “daerah Papua harus ditanam kelapa sawit untuk BBM, tebu dan singkong untuk etanol” semua bertujuan demi swasembada energi. Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakyat mengidentifikasi ada 94 perusahaan perkebunan kelapa sawit di Papua dengan luas 1.332.032 hektar. Ironisnya, perkebunan sawit dimaksud hanya dikuasai dan dimiliki segelintir korporasi yang dekat dengan penguasa.
- Pusaka Bentala Rakyat
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17 December 2025
This famine in Sudan is not merely a product of the war that began in April 2023 but is the culmination of a decades-long structural shift: the systematic reorientation of Sudan’s fertile land and water toward export-oriented agriculture serving Gulf food-security systems.
- Al-Akhbar
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17 December 2025
El fondo brasileño de inversión Patria, conjunto con el fondo estadounidense Lexington Capital, está entrando en el mercado de tierras agrícolas en México, tomando control de AgroFibra
- Comunicae
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16 December 2025