Nigeria

Land Grabbing: il nuovo colonialismo?
- Cronache Internazionali
- 10 January 2013
Si tratta dell’appropriazione o acquisto, da parte di governi o imprese multi-nazionali, di vasti terreni locali mediante operazioni di leasing finanziario.
Olam dismisses Muddy Waters report findings
- Olam
- 28 November 2012
Olam's rebuttal provides new information on its rice farming operations in Nigeria, including its cooperation with the Africa Rice Centre of the CGIAR.
Oil palm firm, group clash over land grab
- All Voices
- 18 November 2012
Oil palm giant, Wilmar Nigeria Limited, and the Rainforest Resource and Development Centre (RRDC), an environmental rights group, are currently at logger heads over a massive land grab in a rural community in Cross River State, Southern Nigeria.
Land grabbing, foreign investment and Nigerian agriculture
- Business Day
- 08 November 2012
By virtue of Dominion Farms’ responsibility to train young students in farming techniques in Kenya and then absorb them into the enterprise or equip them for owning their own enterprises, this is not your typical land-grabbing project, writes Tukeni Obasi
How Africa could feed the world
- CNN
- 06 November 2012
Former Nigerian president Obasanjo calls on African Union to develop a framework for managing foreign investment in agriculture, and says governments should consider a moratorium on large-scale land deals pending legislation to protect smallholder farmers.
Large scale land acquisitions in Africa: Current and recent debates
- Centre LSD
- 27 September 2012
We are witnessing a second scramble for Africa and other poor countries by rich nations and agribusinesses to acquire land for agricultural and biofuel purposes.
AKSG RICE PROJECT WITH TRANS4MATION AGRITECH SUFFERS SET BACK …AS DREAM OF 4000 JOBS FOR AKS PEOPLE REMAINS A MIRAGE
- Ephraimiteblog
- 26 September 2012
"The project has been terminated due to the failure of T4M inability to fulfill their side of the agreement"
Sokoto, Swiss firm sign MoU on rice production
- This Day
- 06 September 2012
Nigeria's Sokoto State Government and Novel Management Services of Switzerland sign a N35 billion deal for a rice project covering 25,000 ha of land in the River Rima basin.
The scramble for African land (1)
- Leadership
- 09 August 2012
"Today, all patriotic Africans are weeping when they see how African governments are giving out African lands, dispossessing the African people of their ancestral land, for practically next to nothing, in the name of attracting foreign investors!", writes Abba Mahmood
Commercial viability & value creation in West African palm oil production
- Hardman & Co
- 06 August 2012
Overview of the palm oil sector in West Africa - major players (Siva, SIAT, Sime Darby, SIFCA, Bolloré, Olam...), hectarage under foreign corporate control, etc.
US firm plans $60m investment in agric. sector
- Vanguard
- 24 July 2012
Dominion Farms will start planting rice in December 2012 on its 30,000 ha rice farm in Taraba and has trained 50 commercial farmers in Kenya who will soon start their own commercial rice operations in Nigeria.
Les actualités foncières ouest-africaines. Bulletin n°80
- Le Hub Rural
- 11 July 2012
Le dernier bulletin d'information du Hub Rural sur les actualités foncières ouest-africaines vient de sortir.