Klimat X intends to expand operations in Sierra Leone beyond the 57,000 ha that have been secured to date to at least 100,000 hectares and will transfer the same model to other countries across Africa, starting in Ghana and Liberia
While top executives stand accused of multimillion dollar fraud, communities living near the plantations suffer from being deprived of their lands and violent harassment by PHC’s security forces.
- Oakland Institute
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01 Mar 2024
Saudi Arabia and South Africa discussed agriculture investment possibilities following agreement on a protocol for red meat exports, with the South African side aiming to expand domestic production on over 2 million hectares.
- Food for Mzansi
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29 February 2024
Some of the world's largest pension funds bet big on Brazilian farmland. Communities, and the climate, are paying the price
Eni is pursuing agricultural production for biofuels in six African countries, including the Republic of the Congo where collaboration with ‘Big Agri’ companies risks land dispossession and environmental degradation.
“The Emiratis are farming and have withdrawn so much water from the ground that the entire town of Wenden has sunk by four feet,”
- The Cool Down
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27 February 2024
Purchase of Australia's largest fruit grower by Driscoll's and US and Canadian private equity and pension funds includes six blueberry farms in Morocco and four berry farms in China.
Arizona’s Auditor General has released a scathing report, criticizing the State Land Department for leasing land to a Saudi-owned company in western Arizona at cheap rates.
- Capital Media Services
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24 February 2024
Niger Foods has signed a lease agreement to develop a 30,000-hectare farm estate in Ishau District, Nigeria.
- Vanguard
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24 February 2024
The largest landowners in Serbia are Matijevic Meat Industry, Al Dahra (UAE), Delta Holding, Almex, Login EKO, Coric Agrar, Mile Blagojevic, Elite Agro (UAE), Al Rawafed (UAE) and Nicko, Forbes Serbia reports
- Beta Briefing
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22 February 2024
A comprehensive study of thousands of agribusiness and other projects funded by the World Bank’s IFC from 1994-2022 finds that the average project "causes 7.6 additional armed conflict events in the year after it is introduced”.
While farmers across Europe protest high costs and foreign competition, agribusiness investors continue to fortify their positions in the Spanish and European agricultural sector.
- Euronews
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22 February 2024