Thailand: Stop foreign land grabs
      The latest report on Chinese investors buying protected forest land to expand their durian plantations is worrying. This is more than just an illegal land grab, however. Soon, the whole durian supply chain will feel the impact. These blatant land grabs must be stopped with a sense of urgency.
      • Bangkok Post
      • 14 Mar 2025
      The “biggest trout farm in Africa” and the failed R5,000 community fund
      In order to apply for a licence from the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, private equity owned SanLei Premium Trout had to show how local communities would benefit. But the Catchment Resilience Fund initiative seems to have crumbled after less than a year.
      • Ground Up
      • 14 Mar 2025
      Solidaritas Merauke Declaration
      For four days on 11-14 March 2025, more than 250 indigenous peoples and local communities affected by Indonesia National Strategic Projects, as well as various civil society organisations, gathered in Merauke, South Papua to challenge the mega projects for rice, sugarcane, oil palm as well as others that will grab million of hectares of community and indigenous territories across the country.
      • Solidaritas Merauke
      • 14 Mar 2025
      Egypt launches new initiative for expats to invest in 1.5mln Feddan Project
      In a bid to enhance investment opportunities for Egyptians abroad, the New Egyptian Countryside Development Company has launched a new initiative titled “Your Farm in Egypt,” in collaboration with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Migration and Egyptians Abroad Affairs.
      • Daily News
      • 12 Mar 2025
      Cairo, Beijing keen to consolidate agricultural ties
      The Egyptian government and a Chinese business delegation are planning for the establishment of an agricultural investment project in the New Valley Governorate through “China Railway,” one of China’s major companies, to produce potatoes, wheat, and soybeans.
      • Egyptian Gazette
      • 12 Mar 2025
      Tanzania: Carbon projects undermine Maasai land rights
      Study finds that two large-scale carbon projects on the grazing lands of the Maasai in Tanzania have committed serious abuses and make traditional grazing practices impossible.
      • MISA
      • 11 Mar 2025
      Nigeria: Amo farm acquires 1,800-acre from UAC in Oyo
      Amo Farm Sieberer Hatchery Ltd says it has acquired the 1,800 acres to develop a 1.2 million broiler capacity, establish a state-of-the-art broiler processing plant, a beef processing facility, multiple hatcheries, fish ponds, and a dam.
      • The Nation
      • 10 Mar 2025
      Indonesia to run palm plantations seized from troubled firm
      The Indonesian government took over management of palm oil plantations seized from a corporation facing a graft probe, under an initiative that may be extended to other troubled commodity-production sites.
      • Bloomberg
      • 10 Mar 2025
      Buvuma: more community land rights defenders are getting targeted, facing judicial harassment, and others are jailed on trumped charges
      In Buvuma District, Uganda, the push for the palm oil project expansion has emboldened land spectators and oil palm brokers to seize more land from neighboring communities. Those who resist often face harsh consequences.
      • Witness Radio
      • 06 Mar 2025
      Microsoft signs 30-year carbon removal afforestation deal in India
      The project, spanning 20,000 hectares in Madhya Pradesh State, will see up to 11.6 million mixed native trees planted across farmer and community land.
      • ESG Today
      • 06 Mar 2025
      Kuy indigenous demand resolution over land dispute in Preah Vihear
      Indigenous community members in Preah Vihear province sought intervention for their communal land, which has been allegedly cleared by a company, Santana Agro Product Co Ltd., said to belong to a senior provincial official — a claim that has been denied by another official on the basis that it involves individual developers instead.
      • CamboJa News
      • 04 Mar 2025
      Foreign investors snap up Rawlinna sheep station
      The famed Consolidated Pastoral Company, now owned by English financier Guy Hands, has bought Australia’s biggest sheep station Rawlinna after it was put on the block when tycoon Andrew Forrest last year dumped plans to buy it for a renewable energy project.
      • The Australian
      • 04 Mar 2025

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