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Scotland’s billionaires are turning climate change into a trophy game
- The Atlantic
- 20 May 2022
A net-zero land rush is sweeping the country, and both locals and wealthy “green lairds” are trying to buy in
Discussing the Malen situation
- Land for Life
- 18 May 2022
Press Statement on the disagreement between members of the Malen Affected Land Owners Association (MALOA) and Socfin Agricultural Company (SAC) in relation to the RSPO Certification, the counter-report of the Pujehun District Multi-stakeholder Platform (DMSP) and the position of Land for Life Consortium
Socfin: Troubles in Guinea
- ReAct Transnational
- 18 May 2022
In April 2022, Socfin’s Swiss subsidiary Socfinco FR announced it will stop providing managerial assistance to the state-owned Guinean rubber and oil palm company Soguipah by the end of 2022. A commentary.
Museveni promises to pay evictees of Kiryandongo sugar factory land
- Monitor
- 16 May 2022
President Museveni has promised to compensate residents who were evicted after he donated lands in 2017 to Kiryandongo Sugar Factory, Agilis Partners of the US, and Great Season to pave way for large-scale farming.
Little progress in practice: Assessing transparency, inclusiveness and sustainability in large-scale land acquisitions in Africa
- Land Matrix
- 16 May 2022
Land Matrix report says large-scale land acquisitions in Africa do not respect the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure
China firm invests $70M in mango project
- Phnom Penh Post
- 15 May 2022
Green Sea Agriculture Co Ltd's plantation currently covers a total area of 1,200 ha, and it plans to invest an additional $500 million to expand mango cultivation and export the fruit to the Chinese market on a large scale
Okomu rides on palm oil price spike
- Daily Trust
- 09 May 2022
Okomu Oil, one of the two commercial palm oil producers listed on the Nigeria's stock exchange, is reaping record profits from current rise in the price of palm oil.
Stakeholders at CSOs-OPWG engagement meeting
- New Republic
- 09 May 2022
Participants of Liberia's Civil Society Organizations Oil Palm Working Group, through the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), have agreed on several strategies to work within making the sector better.
Sierra Leone: Arbitrary harassment and criminalization of land activists in Malen Chiefdom, peacefully objecting to the RSPO certification of SOCFIN
- Green Scenery
- 06 May 2022
Signatories of a petition objecting to the certification of SOCFIN Agricultural Company by the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil have been a target of arbitrary harassment and criminalization.
Australians support further restrictions on foreign ownership of farmland, Vote Compass data shows
- ABC
- 06 May 2022
When the ABC's Vote Compass asked whether the federal government should further restrict foreign ownership of Australian agricultural land, 88 per cent of voters said they "somewhat" or "strongly" agreed that it should.
Film by RECOWA denounces land grabbing in West Africa
- CIDSE
- 05 May 2022
Film by Reunion of Episcopal Conferences in West Africa shows how land grabbing and extractivism are depriving communities of their livelihood and making the fight for social justice increasingly urgent.
PHC/KKM2, a breath of relief for workers and local communities: the case of the Lokutu Area, Tshopo Province, DR Congo
- MUDEV
- 05 May 2022
Report prepared by MUDEV on the case of Plantations et Huileries du Congo.