Investor gets ADC nod to grow crops in vast Galana farm

• The Star
• 12 May 2024

The Nyumba Foundation has received the go-ahead to grow edible oil crops on 40,000 acres Agricultural Development Corporation land in Kilifi county.

World Bank out of land!

• International statement
• 12 May 2024

On the opening day of the World Bank's 2024 Land Conference, small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, workers, grassroots communities, and civil society issue statement denouncing the World Bank for land grabbing and ecosystem destruction.

Edea I Subdivision: How SOCAPALM’s replanting project threatening communities’ survival

• Guardian Post Cameroon
• 10 May 2024

“The problem we have here is the replanting by SOCAPALM and we are asking for vital space for our survival, but SOCAPALM does not want to cooperate,” Yomba Bernard, a notable of Apouh told The Guardian Post.

Ekiti signs multi-billion naira agricultural MOU with Cavista Holdings

• Nigeria Current
• 10 May 2024

Nigeria's Ekiti State Government has signed an MOU with Nigerian investment company – Cavista Holdings (owners of Agbeyewa Farms Limited) to establish a state-of-the-art cassava farm spanning 100,000 hectares within the State.

Delhi High Court grants bail in alleged economic offences

• Lawyer E News
• 07 May 2024

In a significant ruling, the Delhi High Court has granted bail to Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, Director of Karuturi Global Limited, in a case involving alleged economic offences under IPC §420 and §409. The FIR was lodged against Karuturi on allegations of failing to fulfill agreements with the Government of Djibouti and misappropriating funds meant for land development in Ethiopia.

Indonesia to grow 2 million hectares of sugarcane for bio-ethanol fuel development

• VNA
• 06 May 2024

The Government approved Decree 15 of 2024 signed by President Joko Widodo on April 19 to form a task force for the acceleration of sugar and bioethanol self-sufficiency stationed in Merauke district, South Papua province.

Swedish fast food chain Max is offsetting its emissions - so we can eat burgers with a clear conscience

• Aftonbladet
• 04 May 2024

Tree planting in Africa is said to help save the climate and fight poverty, but silently, it is resulting in hunger and poverty. Farmers in Uganda have had enough. They're cutting down climate trees - and turning them into coal.

Whipping up disaster: how Brazil became a lab for financial agro-investments

• GRAIN
• 03 May 2024

How did Brazil become a laboratory for agroinvestment? Through an alliance between big finance and agribusiness. Now, ordinary people are being pulled into financing land- and watergrabbers themselves.

Controversial carbon offset project spells hardship for local communities

• HEKS
• 03 May 2024

An investigation into a large-scale tree plantation project by Swiss Church Aid HEKS/EPER and four Sierra Leone NGOs reveals that numerous farming families who own the land have apparently not agreed to the project in the manner prescribed by law.

DRC: Mystery and collusion in the disappearance of environmental defenders fighting palm oil multinationals

• Kilalo
• 03 May 2024

Environmental rights defenders were arrested, and an environmental journalist was abducted after displaying three banners denouncing the mistreatment by the PHC company in Kinshasa.

Global pension funds flock to Australian farmland

• Asian Investor
• 03 May 2024

Global institutional investors, led by Canadian pension funds, are piling into the sector, a trend mirroring growing allocations to the farming and related rural sectors worldwide.

Locals protest over land for Pader oilseed project

• Monitor
• 02 May 2024

Residents of Pader Sub-county are protesting the allocation of 2,611 acres to Panacea Agribusiness Ltd, saying that more than 3,000 farmers in the area will have nowhere to grow their crops.