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Minister heralds Chinese agri investments
- Phnom Penh Post
- 18 January 2022
Cambodia's Minister of Agriculture hosts meeting on agricultural cooperation with a Chinese company identified only as “Hualong”.
AgDevCo offloads Babator Farming Company to Ghanaian Oba Pack Limited, accelerating investment in farming hub
- Food Business Africa
- 17 January 2022
A Ghanaian-owned agribusiness has acquired a 356 hectare irrigated commercial farm developed by AgDevCo.
Cameroon: 145 local residents against the Bolloré group dismissed in France
- AFP
- 07 January 2022
Some 145 Cameroonians have been dismissed Friday by the French courts as they sought to force the Bolloré group to provide documents they hoped would show its links with a Cameroonian company that they accuse of violating their rights.
Finlays scales down operations in Sri Lanka with sale of tea estates to Brown Investments
- Food Business Africa
- 07 January 2022
Finlays, a subsidiary of the UK Swire Group, is selling its 30 Sri Lankan tea plantations to Brown Investments, which already controls 12,000 ha of tea farms in the country
High Court gives Mnangagwa greenlight to evict Chilonga villagers
- New Zimbabwe
- 07 January 2022
The government in February last year planned to evict 12,000 villagers after it set aside 12 940 hectares of communal land in their area for lucerne project by Dendairy.
Indonesia revokes more than 2,000 mining and plantation permits
- Reuters
- 06 January 2022
More than 2,000 mining, plantation and forest-use permits have been revoked by Indonesian government due to non-compliance or because they had been unused, tightening oversight of the nation's natural resources.
Beginning farmers, farmers of color outbid as farmland prices soar
- Civil Eats
- 06 January 2022
The pandemic-fueled land rush has brought wealthier buyers to rural areas, making land even harder to access—a crisis that has become especially acute in the Northeast of the US.
US: Corporations are consolidating water and land rights in the West
- The Counter
- 04 January 2022
With farms, ranches and rural communities facing unprecedented threats, a worrying trend leads to a critical question: Who owns the water?
Lao villagers refuse to cede land for Chinese-owned banana farm
- RFA
- 04 January 2022
Villagers in southern Laos’ Saravane province are refusing to hand over community land to a planned Chinese banana farm, saying if they lose their land they will have no way to feed their families.
Brazil’s MST on land occupation and resistance to Bolsonaro
- Alborada
- 03 January 2022
Faced with multiple challenges Brazil's landless workers' movement (MST) has adopted new political lines and more occupations to fight the current crisis are now planned.
Friends of the Earth Africa documentary on industrial plantation impacts on women
- FoE Africa
- 28 December 2021
New FoEAfrica documentary shows the impacts of industrial plantation expansion on women in Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire and Mozambique
Dutch banks finance US$3.5 billion in deforestation projects affecting Liberia
- Liberian Observer
- 24 December 2021
Dutch Banks ING Group, ABN AMRO, and Rabobank have provided 3.1 billion Euros (nearly US$3.5 billion) to agriculture projects that have led to deforestation, land grab and human rights violations around the world in the last five years, a new report has found.