Gigantes da economia contestam restrições à empresas nacionais com maioria de capital estrangeiro para adquirir terras. O tema tem gerado guerras empresariais entre empresas nacionais e corporações e fundos de investimentos estrangeiros.

The Lands ministry has ordered the suspension of a process to secure 5,750 acres for Terra Agri Solutions Ltd to establish a farm in Agago district, following complaints from locals.

«Les investisseurs potentiels ont raison de douter des projets de l’entreprise, qui sont à la fois extravagants et néfastes pour les communautés locales», assène le porte-parole de la Convergence globale des luttes pour la Terre et l’Eau en Afrique de l’Ouest, Massa Koné.

Nigerian luxury real estate developer is pursuing a rice farm estate spanning 30,000 hectares in Nigeria's Enugu State that will also include housing, farm hospitals, hotels and markets.

The Swiss-based multinational ASC Impact claims to have acquired 22,000 hectares in Ethiopia’s remote Gambela state along the border with South Sudan for large-scale tree plantations, carbon credits and agriculture.

A Strategic Investment Partnership Agreement was formalized in Qatar between Dinara Group Holding and Qatar National Enterprises which will upscale Dinara's dairy, meat and crop farms and erect additional dairy farms

The Regenerate European Sustainable Agriculture Fund will invest €40 million to establish blueberry farms in Central and Southern Portugal under the name Regen Blue

A showdown is looming in South Sudan over the draft land ownership policy as the Central Equatoria State Assembly rejected the “land belongs to the people” policy, claiming it is a secret deal to legalize land grabbing.

Entre las reivindicaciones de las organizaciones figura el fin de la financiación de proyectos de adquisición de tierras a gran escala, acaparamiento de tierras e inversiones especulativas por parte de agentes privados y bancos de desarrollo.

The Agriculture and Livestock Ministry has opened up 21,000 acres of idle land belonging to the National Youth Service and Tana and Athi Rivers Development Authority for commercial leases to boost food security.

New report by EIA shows cacao and palm oil companies have systematically contributed to clearing at least 13,000 hectares between 2012 and 2021 in Peru’s most forest-rich regions of Loreto and Ucayali.

The world’s largest manager of farmland assets, Nuveen Natural Capital, has taken advantage of Treasury Wine Estates’ decision to downsize its commercial wine business after acquiring water rights and 434 ha of its orchards.

The communities will lease a minimum of 10,000 hectares of land for 50 years to establish commercial farms and farm estates for mechanised production of rice, sesame, soya and maize

“I’m there to make money,” Heilberg says. This time with carbon credits.

A 20% year-over-year increase of agricultural exports from Laos in 2023 was largely on the back of Chinese plantations, according to trade officials, meaning that the country will reap few of the profits.