India's National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development and Rabo Bank are pursuing a project in Karnataka to plant trees on mango plantations as a way to generate carbon credits.
A French billionaire controls 400,000 hectares across Africa through a web of Swiss companies and colonial-era land titles. This is how modern extraction works.
- Buried Signals
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27 July 2025
L’accord prévoit l’exploitation de 30 000 hectares de terres réparties dans six provinces de l’est du pays. La concession est attribuée pour 25 ans et bénéficie d’un régime fiscal préférentiel.
- La Nouvelle Tribune
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26 July 2025
The Kenyan government has awarded sections of the 250,000-acre irrigation scheme to three firms: Selu Africa Limited, Nyumbani Foundation, and Al Dahra of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Une manifestation contre le replanting de Socapalm à Mbimbè, le 14 juillet 2025, et a été fortement réprimée par les forces de sécurité camerounaises, avec à la clé des arrestations de quelques villageois, relaxés quelques jours plus tard.
Sinohydro Group of China will invest more than $100 million in Angola to develop a 25-year, tax-free 30,000 hectare land concession to produce soybeans for export.
Farmland investors say a tax imposed uniquely by Queensland on foreign-owned agricultural land is having a “chilling effect” on new investment and prompting existing offshore investors to divest Queensland assets and replace them with investments in other states.
- Sheep Central
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23 July 2025
L’opération de replanting vire à l’affrontement à la Socapalm de Mbambou. Les jeunes contestataires n’ont pas souhaité s’exprimer, se disant encore ébranlés par leur récent passage à la prison centrale d’Édéa et préférant rester prudents.
- Voix du Koat
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22 July 2025
Cette enveloppe servira au développement de près de 100 000 hectares de terres, principalement pour la culture de soja et du maïs.
- Agence Ecofin
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22 July 2025
Subsidiária do conglomerado estatal chinês Citic projeta plantar 100 mil ha de soja e milho em Angola, com 60% para exportação, para garantir o abastecimento de longo prazo em meio à guerra comercia. 8 mil ha já foram desmatados
Despite a track record of financing linked to land grabbing and deforestation, agricultural investment funds, or Fiagros, have been cleared by Brazil’s Monetary Council to receive up to 10% of pension fund assets
- O Joio e o Trigo
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21 July 2025
Citic Construction Co. will invest $250 million over five years to develop as much as 100,000 hectares of land, according to Fan Juntao, the managing director of the company in Angola.
One of the country's biggest agricultural landholders is set to hit the auction block after Macquarie Asset Management told investors it would take its Paraway Pastoral Company to market after 17 years of ownership.
Mardi 8 juillet, plusieurs membres du gouvernement américain ont annoncé leur volonté d’interdire aux investisseurs chinois l’acquisition de terres agricoles aux États-Unis, invoquant un enjeu de sécurité nationale. Trump semble avoir également dans le viseur les actuels propriétaires.
- Le Club des juristes
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18 July 2025
Sudan proposed a trilateral partnership to combine Sudan’s fertile land, Pakistan’s agricultural expertise, and Saudi investment to launch impactful joint ventures.
Community land Rights defender Olupot James and his wife Apio Sarah are amongst a few remaining families that resisted the Kiryandongo Sugar Limited's violent eviction and repression.
- Witness Radio
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18 July 2025
Discovery of illegal palm crops comes as Grupo BBF grapples with financial problems sparked by warnings over its human rights record
- Climate Home News
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18 July 2025
The companies said the two separate projects will plant 11 million trees across 8,000 hectares
- https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/nestle-barry-callebaut-regreen-restore-areas-brazils-cocoa-coffee-regions-2025-07-17/
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16 July 2025
Crypto powerhouse Tether, the world's largest digital assets company, is leveraging its recent acquisition of a South American agricultural firm to make a strategic play for the multi-trillion dollar a year global commodities trade.
Proterra's Asia Food Fund 3 is backing a greenfield blueberry cultivation project in the southern Paksong district, Laos with Mekong Blue Singapore.
British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, today announced a €30 million investment in MHP, Ukraine’s leading agribusiness.
The meeting focused on strategic projects aimed at boosting food security and modernising agriculture in Libya. Both sides discussed proposals for large-scale initiatives involving advanced technologies and public-private partnerships.
- Libya Observer
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14 July 2025
The Norrenberger Financial Group has disclosed that it plans to cultivate 1,000 hectares of arable land in Kano State as part of its support towards boosting food production and ensuring food security in the country.
In May this year, a subsidiary of the Italian oil company Eni began producing agri-feedstock with other edible crops, such as sunflower and soy, which could have a negative impact on local food security.
One of the country’s biggest milk producers – backed by the Rich Lister Perich family and China’s New Hope Group – has sold one of its major farms in Victoria’s north for close to $55 million.
The Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC), Anjuman Mazareen Punjab (AMP) and Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (HKP) jointly raised their concerns over the alleged state sponsored push for corporate farming, widespread land grabbing, and the forced eviction of peasants from lands they have cultivated for generations.
- Business Recorder
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12 July 2025
Ghana is partnering with Onesta Ghana Ltd to launch the Redgold Oil Palm Plantation Project, which will cover 10,000 hectares
Standard Bank Namibia has invested N$40 million into a large-scale blueberry farming initiative by Namibia Berries, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's Loxworth Capital
When Microsoft announced a 10-year carbon removal deal with US forestry credits firm Aurora, some people with a Bristol, UK pension pool were paying close attention.
- Net Zero Investor
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10 July 2025
La Chine a condamné mercredi les mesures envisagées par l'administration américaine pour interdire aux investisseurs chinois d'acquérir des terres agricoles américaines, dénonçant une pratique «discriminatoire».