Schweppes Zimbabwe Limited has undertaken to invest US$35 million in the next 10 years into a 2 700 hectare citrus plantation as it seeks to increase production and valued addition at its Beitbridge Juice Processing Plant.
The Cambodian farmers who sued the Breton businessman for land grabbing were dismissed by the court of Nanterre.
Farmers gathered to protest the seizure of their lands by a sugar company owned by Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest person.
Farmers in Adamawa State Nigeria have staged a protest against the seizure of their lands by a sugar cane company owned by the Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest person.
Eighty Cambodian farmers of the Bunong ethnic group were dismissed on Friday by the judicial court of Nanterre. They believed that they had been robbed of their ancestral forest by the Bolloré group, who replaced it with rubber plantations. The farmers' lawyer has appealed against this judgment.
Local communities hold a press conference today to protest against the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil certificate awarded to Socfin’s subsidiary company SAFACAM in Cameroon on 30 December 2020
As natives continue to resist illegal evictions, multinational companies opt to hire livestock as a new tactic to forcefully evict smallholder farmers from their land.
New report for Misereor reviewed scientific literature on the microeconomic and social effects of large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa
The company owned by Itochu Corp of Japan is currently cultivating 300 out of 4,335 hectares leased under agreements with landowners in Lugbu Chiefdom, Sierra Leone
Singapore-based Japfa, through its 75 per cent-owned subsidiary AustAsia Investment Holdings, has agreed to buy two dairy farms in Shandong, China.
An Australian company backed by Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board has purchased a grain farm in Yuna, Australia for about $30 million
The village in Guatemala is surrounded by oil palm plantations belonging to the HAME Group but residents feel none of the benefits
