After signing a 25-year lease from Kenya's Lands Ministry in Nairobi, Burgess made auxiliary payments to various groups to ensure that the plan could continue unhindered. Unfortunately, the people of the Luo tribe and members of other tribes in similar situations are unhappy.
While Dominion Farms is honored that Business Week saw our company as a global front runner in doing business in Africa, we are disheartened by the lack of commitment to the true story of Dominion Farms.
Agribusiness and global investors are scooping up farmland. Are corporate farmers the new colonialists? asks BusinessWeek
Because of the political sensitivity of the modern-day land grab, it is often only the country's head of state who knows the details. Der Spiegel investigates.
Activists say as many as 150,000 people in the Tana River delta could be displaced by the Qatari land-lease deal -- and it is not the only one in Kenya.
“MPs want ActionAid to keep off”, screams the caption of a story in the East African Standard of January 3, 2006. The story is attributed to MPs Oburu Odinga and Ayiecho Olweny who claim that the NGO is inciting residents of trouble ridden Yala Swamp rice scheme in which American investor Dominion Group of Companies has been embroiled in a tussle with the community over issues of land dispossession
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The AfCFTA and land in Africa: towards a surge in land grabbing?
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New Zealand outlines rules to curb large-scale carbon farming
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