In Ethiopia and Mauritania, reports from community organizations highlight tensions where Elite Agro projects have displaced smallholders or restricted traditional grazing lands.
Overseas investors could face fewer hurdles to purchase farmland as the Treasurer proposes "automatic approvals" as part of significant reforms.
President Ruto is said to have offered Qatar 2.5 million acres for large-scale irrigation farming, as an opportunity to bolster food security and enhance export capacity for both nations.
Regenerate Asset Management will invest an initial €25 million to acquire over 2,000 hectares of farmland under dairy production in Denmark.
A new report challenges one of the most persistent and harmful myths shaping Africa’s development agenda — the idea that the continent holds vast expanses of “unused” or “underutilised” land waiting to be transformed into industrial farms or carbon markets.
Mirova adds Coca-Cola and the foreign affairs ministries of the UK and Canada as investors in its fund targeted at "low-carbon" agricultural and forestry projects
L’enquête met en lumière trois problèmes récurrents sur les plantations de Socfin : exploitation sexuelle, conflits fonciers et violences
Humundi (ex SOS Faim) publie une analyse sur les crédits carbone autorisés par l'Union européenne. Les crédits carbone sont une fausse solution qui menace les communautés paysannes d'Afrique, d'Asie et d'Amérique latine.
«Les violences sexuelles sont documentées dans différentes plantations de Socfin depuis plusieurs années. Il s'agit d'un problème systémique», déplore Juliette Müller, responsable romande de la Coalition pour des multinationales responsables, une association de défense des droits humains et de l'environnement.
La Coalition pour des multintionales responsables sort un dossier sur les plaintes d’exploitation sexuelle, de violence, d’expulsion et de pollution autour des plantations de caoutchouc et d’huile de palme du groupe Socfin, dont une grande partie du négoce agricole se fait via la Suisse.
Le nouveau ministre de l’Aménagement du Territoire et des Services fonciers à Madagascar, le général Lylison René de Rolland Urbain, a fait de la restitution des terres à leurs propriétaires légitimes l’une de ses priorités.
German human rights activists accuse Berlin-based agricultural company Amatheon Agri of violently forcing Zambian farmers off their land and seizing their livestock.
Nouvelle Blooms is helping investors access 1.8 million acres [728,434 ha] of Kenyan government land for large-scale farming, particularly for maize and soya beans that are critical for poultry feed formulation.
"Ce que nous avons constaté, c’est que de nouvelles expulsions de terres ont eu lieu récemment, par exemple en 2021 à Galakpaye et à Ballan, où des personnes ont été dépossédées de leurs terres sans juste et préalable indemnisation. Ce qui est contraire au droit international et aux lois guinéennes."
Uganda is inviting Qatari investors to participate across the value chain—from livestock farming, agro-processing, oil storage, and medicine, to exporting high-value products such as citrus, coffee, vanilla, avocado, grapes, and tea, its ambassador tells Uganda-Qatar Business Forum.
Nigeria's federal minister of livestock development says plans are underway to convert 123,000 hectares of grazing reserves in Katsina into modern ranches to develop halal meat exports to the Middle East through public-private partnerships
La corporación en cuestión es la Olam Group, con sede en Singapur, que controla 2,36 millones de hectáreas agrícolas propias o de operación directa.
The Serbian government bought 11 hectares from UAE's Al Dahra to build a stadium. This is the same land that the government sold to Al Dahra seven years ago during a privatisation process, but it has now been repurchased at a price 13 times higher.
The blank check company registered in the Cayman Islands plans to target businesses within the food production and agribusiness sector, including in land cultivation and aqua culture, in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Chile.
« La Soguipah a tout pris, il n’y a plus où cultiver, donc nous sommes obligés de travailler pour la Soguipah. »
Around 3.7 million hectares of oil palm plantations have been seized by Indonesian military, with nearly half transferred to nascent state firm Agrinas Palma Nusantara, catapulting it into the world's largest palm oil company by land size. A sweeping military-backed takeover that has sent a chill through the world's biggest palm oil producer and its 16-million-strong workforce.
According to a new 2025 Land Matrix Initiative report, millions of hectares are being acquired for carbon offset projects. In Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo are epicenters, with over a million hectares each already under contract.
Programa Camino Verde Brasil para conversión de 40 millones de ha de pasturas degradadas en monocultivos de granos, cómo soya y maiz, intenta atraer inversión extranjera, especialmente de China, al ofrecer participación accionaria en propiedades brasileñas, lo que pone en riesgo a la soberanía de la tierra, y la concentración de la propiedad.
Une enquête menée par une organisation de la société civile révèle des irrégularités dans l’attribution de certaines concessions foncières à la Socapalm mais celle-ci soutient que les reproches reposent sur des interprétations erronées.
The National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) has signed an MoU with agribusiness firm Arzikim Noma for the management and financing of the 5,000 hectare Renewed Hope Mega Farm Estate in Ora, Kwara State.
The investment arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints owns farms and orchards in 29 of 50 US states and 10 countries across the Americas, Europe and most recently Australasia.
Ghana's finance minister says large-scale agricultural transformation requires patient capital, and that is why his government is working closely with the World Bank, IFC, and other development partners to mobilise financing and catalyse private sector participation.
The Mayuge hub — which also covers Bugiri and Namayingo districts — marks the first phase of an oil palm cultivation project in Busoga, following years of preparation and feasibility studies.
Guyana's Minister of Agriculture told a private sector delegation from the Brazilian state of Roraima that Region Nine was an ideal area for expanding agricultural investments, with availability of land suitable for mega-farms.
Une enquête accablante révèle les zones d’ombre autour de près de 1 000 hectares de concessions foncières, plongeant les communautés locales dans un bras de fer avec la puissante filiale de Socfin.
