• Del Monte is turning Kenya into a Pineapple Republic
      • Jacobin
      • 18 Mar 2024

      In Kenya’s lush Thika region, stealing pineapples is a de facto capital crime. At least nine men have allegedly been killed by security guards employed by Del Monte, the world’s largest producer of pineapples.

    • Palm oil: a holding company has paid 142,000 euros to Cameroonians opposed to the Bolloré group
      • AFP
      • 13 Mar 2024

      On Wednesday, the Luxembourg holding company Société financière des caoutchoucs (Socfin) paid €142,000 to Cameroonian plaintiffs, a fine imposed by the French courts for failing to produce documents that could establish its links with the French company Bolloré.

    • We're razing forests for palm oil plantations again
      • Mongabay
      • 13 Mar 2024

      Palm oil companies in Indonesia, the world’s top producer of the commodity, cleared 30,000 ha of forest last year to make way for plantations. France-based TheTreeMap used plantation concession data from Greenpeace to identify 53 companies behind the plantation expansion and resulting deforestation, of which 20 had cleared carbon-rich peatlands.

    • Dozens of Cambodians charged in land dispute: activist
      • AFP
      • 13 Mar 2024

      A Cambodian court has charged 29 people with illegally occupying state land following an incident in which authorities fired live rounds in a crackdown on a longstanding land dispute.

    • The Vicuñas and the $9,000 sweater
      • Bloomberg
      • 13 Mar 2024

      Thirty years of providing the world’s finest wool to the fashion house Loro Piana has done almost nothing for the Indigenous people of the Peruvian Andes.

    • Skewed policies in favor of forest-destroying tycoon
      • Pusaka Bentala Rakyat
      • 13 Mar 2024

      Two oil palm plantation companies related to the Fangiono family and Ciliandry Arky Abadi Group are set up in the land belong to the Moi Sigin and Moi Kelim Indigenous communities in Southwest Papua. Fangiono family is one of the richest palm oil tycoons in Indonesia reportedly have taking over 100,000 hectares of land forest areas in the Moi Sigin and Moi Kelim indigenous territory.

    • Provincial authorities use weapons in Preah Vihear land dispute, nearly 30 residents detained
      • CamboJa News
      • 12 Mar 2024

      At least 30 residents have been charged by provincial court in Cambodia for allegedly illegally occupying state land. The detention stems from an incident when authorities mounted a mass crackdown during a clash over a long-disputed land. The authorities said the land belonged to a rubber company called Seladamex, having received an economic land concession (ELC) from the state.

    • Brazilian growers go bust in blow to $7 billion farm-credit boom
      • Bloomberg
      • 11 Mar 2024

      Tumbling corn and soybean prices are sparking defaults, undermining returns for so-called Fiagros, the Brazilian investment funds backed by agricultural receivables such as interest, dividends and land-lease payments.

    • Saudi dairy company Fondomonte ceases water pumping in far west Arizona
      • KTAR
      • 11 Mar 2024

      A Saudi dairy company that once pumped water through a lease on local farmland in far west Arizona has officially ceased operations.

    • Abu Dhabi-owned Unifrutti eyes further Latam growth after fresh acquisitions
      • Reuters
      • 09 Mar 2024

      The company has reached a deal to buy both AvoAmerica Peru and Bomarea from U.S.-based Solum Partners and Alpine Fresh, it said on Saturday, following its January acquisition of Verfrut, which produces fruits in Chile and Peru.

    • Carbon Done Right buys London Carbon Exchange ahead of AIM listing
      • Investing News
      • 08 Mar 2024

      The Company intends to expand operations in Sierra Leone and will transfer the same model to Ghana and Liberia and other countries across Africa, where approximately 90% of land suitable for restoration is held by smallholders.

    • Sampofu seeks investors to put up green schemes in Zambezi region
      • Namibian
      • 05 Mar 2024

      Zambezi's appeal to investors for developing green schemes over fertile land aims to transform Namibia into a food basket, marking a significant step towards sustainable agriculture and food security.

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