The horticulture sector is drawing renewed interest from Private Equity investors, driven by the sector's limited correlation with the broader economy, resilient demand fundamentals, and meaningful consolidation potential.

The strategy of the US$500mn fund is built around the acquisition and operation of high-quality permanent and specialty farmland across the US, with regenerative organic certification positioned as a value driver

The governor received a delegation of Chinese investors from Wuhan Province interested in alfalfa farming and livestock development who had visited parts of Jigawa, particularly Hadejia, to inspect available land, existing pilot projects, and private farms in operation.

A delegation from the Chinese Chamber of Commerce met with the Sri Lanka’s Minister of Agriculture to discuss the acquisition of "currently unused land to develop large-scale dairy farms and export-oriented agricultural products such as vegetables and fruits.”

One of Australia’s largest cattle producers, Consolidated Pastoral Company, now owned by UK billionaire Guy Hands, has acquired a 711,638-hectare sheep station in Western Australia for $35 million amid the company’s rapid ramp-up into the sector.

The company — backed by Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ — farms about 250,000 acres globally. It will focus on farming and the sale of commodities it produces, its press office said

Accaparement de terres, travailleurs exploités et combat des populations locales... Al Jazeera fait le point.

Le Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee a tenu son 4ᵉ Congrès fédéral à Lahore, élisant une nouvelle direction et annonçant une mobilisation nationale contre l’agriculture industrielle, l’accaparement des terres et la crise agraire croissante.

Coalition of civil society organizations and victims of Indonesia National Strategic Project, members of Solidaritas Merauke are strongly condemn the state from issuing regulations and decisions on the changes in the allocation of forest areas and for granting of Right to Cultivation and Right to Build to PT Agrinas Pangan Nusantara covering 328,000 hectares of customary land in South Papua.

Since foreign land ownership is legally restricted in the country, the idea is that foreign investors can participate as minority shareholders in agribusiness investment funds (Fiagros) and partner with Brazilian landowners.

Carbon credits are derived from Kijani Forestry’s Smallholder Farmer Forestry Project in northern Uganda, which establishes woodlots on degraded land, with roughly 30 million trees planted to date in collaboration with local growers.

It is a subsidiary of Alpha MBM Investments, a Dubai-based company developing a US$4 billion oil refinery in Uganda, whose chairman is a member of Dubai’s royal family.

Christopher Robinson, a local elected official who already controls roughly one million acres of land, acquired the 916,000-acre Pathfinder Ranches just four years after buying the neighboring 86,000-acre Stone Ranch.

O Ministério da Agricultura do Brasil pretende apresentar em fevereiro a fundos soberanos árabes uma proposta de investimento em terras no Brasil para apoiar a conversão de pastagens para áreas agrícolas. Como a propriedade de terras por estrangeiros é limitada no Brasil, a ideia é que os investidores estrangeiros possam entrar como cotistas minoritários de fundos de investimento no agronegócio (Fiagros) e se associar a proprietários brasileiros.

Se trata de una superficie equivalente a Grecia o a la cuarta parte de España. Los autores advierten contra el cambio de la Ley de Tierras que promueve Milei

The Hong Kong–based carbon project and crypto coin developer signed an agreement for the restoration of approximately 32,000 hectares of mangroves in cooperation with Senegal’s Aire Marine Protégée authorities.

Landa, vehículo de inversión alternativa gestionado por Bankinter Investment y Nuveen, ha cerrado la compra de una nueva finca de cítricos de aproximadamente 250 hectáreas ubicada en la provincia de Huelva. El fondo ha levantado 138 millones de euros para invertir en tierras agrícolas de España y Portugal.

Les projets de compensation conçus pour permettre aux gros pollueurs de réduire le bilan de leurs émissions de CO2 sont en majorité pilotés par des entreprises étrangères. Ils couvrent un peu plus de 5 millions d’hectares.

The Arizona state government will start limiting groundwater pumping in a desert valley where a Saudi-owned dairy company grows hay, and where aquifer levels have been dropping.

Communities affected by the operations of the Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) and the Liberia Agriculture Company (LAC) have forcefully rejected Socfin Group’s 2024–2025 progress reports, accusing the multinational agribusiness of masking persistent environmental and human rights abuses behind what they describe as “paper compliance.”

Investigadores del Conicet elaboraron un mapa interactivo donde ponen el foco en la propiedad del suelo argentino, en un contexto donde Javier Milei insiste con derogar la denominada Ley de Tierras. Las estadísticas oficiales relevan que dos departamentos de La Pampa están por encima del promedio nacional, que se ubica en torno al 5 %.

The project dreamt of transforming dunes of Cholistan into farmlands by contracting out vast tracts to private companies who were supposed to vanguard a corporate farming revolution. But the companies involved are disillusioned, with one foot already out the door.

À Lokumete, dans le territoire de Basoko, en RDC, des accrochages sanglants ont opposé jeudi 8 janvier la population locale aux gardes industrielles de la société PHC. Ces affrontements ont impliqué les éléments de la police et ont fait 4 blessés graves dont une femme enceinte.

Kernel, one of Ukraine’s largest agribusiness groups, has acquired a major agricultural holding with 41,000 hectares of farmland and a network of grain elevators, in a deal valued at over $100mn, the company confirmed this week.

La Socapalm a martelé qu’il ne s’agit pas d’orienter les travaux des journalistes.

Delta State Governor charges the Steering Committee of the World Bank-funded Framework for Responsible Investment in Land-Intensive Agriculture to “promote transparency in land acquisition and resettlement for large-scale agribusiness investment."

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto on Wednesday said that Indonesia may seize an additional 4 million to 5 million hectares of palm oil this year

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.

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.