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19 Feb 2026
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AgriTouch Group and SanLucar to establish 180-hectare blueberry plantation in Georgia Fresh Plaza | 18 Feb 2026
AgriTouch Group, in partnership with international agri-food company SanLucar, plans to establish a 180-hectare blueberry plantation in western Georgia.
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IPC releases its position paper on agrarian reform ahead ICARRD+20 IPC | 18 Feb 2026
The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty says land, water, forests and oceans are increasingly concentrated in the hands of corporations and financial actors, driving dispossession, inequality and ecological collapse.
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Australia: US pension fund behind major sheep farm buy with dairying the new focus Farm ONline | 16 Feb 2026
40 South Dairies, a dairy farming joint venture owned in part by the Washington State Investment Board, has emerged as the buyer of the Peltzer family's prized 2683 hectares Logan estate.
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Madagascar turns to private sector to expand rice area by 150,000 hectares Ecofin | 15 Feb 2026
On February 14, the Agriculture Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding with private firm COM'ON HOLDING & PARTENAIRE to support its plan to develop 150,000 hectares of new rice-growing areas.
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Land seizures spread across Uzbekistan as farmers cite push for Chinese capital RFE | 14 Feb 2026
A wave of land disputes that began in eastern Uzbekistan has spread to Sirdaryo, where farmers say authorities are using courts, debt enforcement, and administrative pressure to shift farmland into a system that favors foreign, particularly Chinese, investors.
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Another controversial land deal in Suriname threatens the Amazon rainforest Mongabay | 11 Feb 2026
Critics in Suriname are speaking out against plans for a public-private partnership to develop 113,465 hectares of rainforest for industrial agriculture in the district of Nickerie.
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Community complaints in limbo as Socfin cuts ties with Earthworm Foundation Mongabay | 10 Feb 2026
After eight years, multinational plantation company Socfin and the environmental consultancy Earthworm Foundation have cut ties.
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Investors commit $5-billion to Farm Credit Canada for farming and food innovation G&M | 10 Feb 2026
FCC has convened a coalition of more than 20 investment organizations, including venture capital, private equity and Royal Bank of Canada. It will connect these investors to opportunities in land acquisition, manufacturing and new ag-tech startups, among other projects.
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How LPs are pushing real assets like farmland and timber closer to 401(k) plans GAI | 09 Feb 2026
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.
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Roc partners-backed Australia’s Oyster Coast expands footprint with acquisition of NSW oyster farm AIM | 09 Feb 2026
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.
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Dubai-based firm bets $1.6 billion on Africa’s AI data centres and farmland Business Insider | 06 Feb 2026
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.
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Al Dahra signs US$100M deal with TISEZA to expand irrigated farming in Tanzania Milling MEA | 06 Feb 2026
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.
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Egypt’s Nile Sugar to invest $450M in Uzbekistan's project Caspian Post | 06 Feb 2026
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.
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Confusion and alarm over ASC Impact’s carbon plantations in Gambella, Ethiopia REDD-Monitor | 06 Feb 2026
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.
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Land and the right to food UN HRC | 06 Feb 2026
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.
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Israel’s largest avocado grower launches 400 ha farm in Kenya Seed Farm | 05 Jan 2025
The Israel-based company has begun avocado farming in Kenya on a 400-hectare farm where it has planted 55,000 trees of avocado with the ultimate target of 300,000.
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Huile de palme : Opalm affiche ses ambitions en acquérant l’usine de la Socapalm d’Eséka Investir au Cameroun | 19 fev 2026
La Société camerounaise de palmeraies (Socapalm), filiale du groupe luxembourgeois Socfin, a annoncé le 18 février 2026, dans un communiqué officiel, la cession de « sa plantation d’Eséka » (région du Centre) à la société Opalm
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Pilleurs de terres, un film sur les exactions de Bolloré en Afrique et en Asie Les Soulèvements de la terre | 16 fev 2026
Ce documentaire suit les démarches de deux communautés dans le cadre des procès juridiques, avec l'aide de réseaux d'activistes et d'avocats. Il montre les conséquences de l'accaparement des terres sur la vie quotidienne et sur la culture des populations affectées. Il décrit aussi les implications de la loi sur le devoir de vigilance des entreprises.
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Madagascar : un partenariat public-privé pour étendre la riziculture de 150 000 hectares Agence Ecofin | 16 fev 2026
Le gouvernement malgache a signé un protocole d’accord avec l’entreprise privée COM’ON HOLDING & PARTENAIRE portant sur 150 000 hectares de nouveaux périmètres rizicoles, qui serviront le marché local et l'exportation.
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Souveraineté foncière : Tahirou Sarr propose une loi pour réserver la terre aux Sénégalais Xalima News | 08 fev 2026
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.
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Les terres sénégalaises «bradées» aux étrangers Seneplus | 06 fev 2026
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.
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