Uganda

The Bugala Farmers Association has called on the UNDP to sever its ties with Bidco Africa, a Kenya-based edible oil producer accused of land-grabbing, human rights violations and environmental disasters in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania

The Netherlands Academy on Land Governance / IDS Utrecht University has conducted a scoping study on Dutch flower farms, land governance and local food security in eastern Africa

The Iranian ambassador to Kenya said the country plans to lease land in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to grow rice, corn and wheat

Foreign Affairs Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Tuesday told Parliament that Bangladesh had started ‘contract farming’ in the African countries with appointment of 11 Bangladeshi farmers in Zambia.

Book provides a variety of ingenious, creative, and practical strategies for proactively confronting the forces that undermine community land and natural resource tenure security in Africa.

Mr Museveni particularly cited those still frustrating oil palm growing on Kalangala Islands, saying they don’t deserve to live because they don’t want Uganda to become self-sustaining

Investors have poured tens of millions of dollars into a war torn landscape in northern Uganda now dotted with tracts of maize, rice, sunflower, sesame and commercial forests.

The Ugandan Government has released a statement to disprove allegations levelled against Kenya’s Bidco Oil Company over land.

As land grabs by firms linked to multinationals drive small-holder farmers out of business, a group behind a February bid for compensation by 100 farmers says rights violations and environmental degradation are also at stake.

La Banque mondiale n’a pas pris de mesures suffisantes pour empêcher ou dissuader les gouvernements d’intimider les personnes critiques à l’égard des projets financés par la Banque, a déclaré Human Rights Watch dans un rapport publié aujourd’hui.

European banks and investors are a major source of finance for large-scale destructive agriculture; forestry; and pulp and paper projects.

Those keen to see an end to years of environmental destruction and see genuine change in the behavior of major palm oil producers and suppliers feel there is still a lot to be mistrusting of.