The CEO of the Mano Palm Oil Plantation has been caught on tape instructing the head of his company’s private security to stage a protest against against the residents of the communities where his company operates.
The Australian government's Clean Energy Finance Corporation has committed up to $30 million to a carbon farming fund that seeks to expand its existing 100,000-acre landholding to 500,000 acres.
On September 2nd, security forces looted and burned down houses in the Nigerian village of Agbede – a further chapter in the conflict between local people and the Okomu Oil Palm plantation company, reports Rainforest Rescue
The oil palm plantations of BIDCO, a company partially owned by Wilmar, in Kalangala Island, Uganda, generated devastating impacts. But the company's plans to expand to Buvuma Island are met with organized opposition!
Le projet d’exploitation des 60.000 ha du Bas-Mangoky en suspens. Les investisseurs qui ont manifesté leur intérêt sur ce projet souhaiteraient d’abord « que l’Etat mette en place les facilités » nécessaires à leur implantation sur le site.
IMC specializes in the cultivation of cereals, oilseeds and milk production on about 123,300 hectares of land in Poltava, Chernihiv and Sumy regions of Ukraine.
Olam says 4,000 ha of its large rice farm in Nigeria were submerged and that damages could be worth as much as $15 million.
Environ 25 000 hectares de terres agricoles du groupe français en Ukraine sont déclarées "toxiques"
Um evento na Universidade do Estado da Bahia denunciava a grilagem de terras e avanço do latifúndio sobre o Matopiba, região formada por áreas majoritariamente de cerrado nos estados do Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí e Bahia.
Large-scale land acquisitions repeatedly fall short of their acclaimed socioeconomic benefits. In Laos, the government has started to question its own “Turning Land into Capital” policy, and reviews land acquisitions or concessions with regard to their socioeconomic impacts.
About 100 families from five villages in Bousra commune, Mondulkiri province, Cambodia have agreed to end a long-running land dispute with the Socfin-KCD company that is active in the rubber plantation industry.
The partnership is between UK investment group United Green and Kisumu County 42 Lake Ventures Company will include primary farms that will integrate with 100,000 hectares of surrounding farming communities via a unique smallholder farmer scheme.
