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AgDevCo sells its stake in Saise Farming to Buya Bamba
- Food Business
- 26 Mar 2025
AgDevCo has officially exited its investment in Saise Farming Enterprises Limited, Zambia’s leading commercial seed potato producer.
Mbonjo : La Socapalm multiplie les menaces sur les communautés
- Pages Jaunes
- 25 Mar 2025
« Pendant que nous sommes au champ le 1er Février 2025, nous avons reçu la visite des agents de sécurité et les militaires employés par Socapalm nous demandant d’arrêter tout travail car ce site est dans la concession de Socapalm. »
Nigeria: Gov Otti to revamp Ogwe Golden Chicken Farm, welcomes investment offer from Israeli Livestock Company
- Daily Champion
- 25 Mar 2025
Abia State Governor Otti disclosed this while receiving in audience a delegation of an Israeli – Agro business Investment Company, AgroTop Israel and their development partners from Max Agro Farm.
Nigeria: JR Farms, Cross River partner to develop 30,000 hectares of coffee plantation
- The Nation
- 25 Mar 2025
A Nigerian-owned agribusiness firm, JR Farms, has entered a partnership with the Cross River Government to develop a 30,000-hectare coffee plantation across the 18 local government areas of the state over the next five years.
Harvard stole Brazilian land. It’s time to make amends.
- Harvard Crimson
- 25 Mar 2025
Perhaps no country has been affected by Harvard’s land grabs more than Brazil, home to nearly half of the University’s farmland acquisitions.
SRC’s revival brings hope, dignity to workers
- Liberian Observer
- 24 Mar 2025
Optimism is reverberating among workers as issues of decrepit housing and a plethora of other problems left behind by Socfinaf - a Luxembourg multinational, partly held by France's Bolloré group, that owned SRC until it divested in August 2024 - are now being addressed.
Peru to spend $24 billion on irrigation to expand farmlands
- Reuters
- 24 Mar 2025
Peruvian Agriculture Minister Angel Manero on Monday announced some $24 billion in largely public-private projects to improve irrigation in the Andean nation, as the government looks to expand its farmlands by some one million hectares
The case against a carbon credit farm in Madagascar
- New Lines Magazine
- 24 Mar 2025
The Italian multinational Tozzi Green has begun planting trees on land that local residents claim was stolen from them
A USD$25 billion public-private Ghana climate futures and socio-economic initiative is agreed
- CarbonPura
- 24 Mar 2025
The Ghana Green Guard USD$25 billion climate futures initiative is a public-private collaborative partnership that will generate over 305 million carbon credits across 12 million hectares with projects based on reforestation, regenerative agriculture and other activities.
Litige foncier à Edéa : Apouh et la Socapalm au cœur d’un contentieux foncier colonial
- La voix du Koat
- 21 Mar 2025
Alors qu’une nouvelle campagne de replantating des palmiers à huile est annoncée, la Socapalm craint la paralysie de ses activités par une nouvelle incursion des riverains dans ses plantations. Le Préfet de la Sanaga-Maritime est appelé à la rescousse.
State to lease large irrigation schemes to boost food production
- KBC
- 21 Mar 2025
The Kenyan government is planning on leasing at least 350,000 acres of land under its control to private companies as part of plans to increase food production over the next decade.
IFC Board approves response to CAO investigation related to IFC’s investment in Salala Rubber Corporation in Liberia
- IFC
- 20 Mar 2025
The World Bank unit's "action plan" is an attempt to respond to its own compliance advisor's recommendations on issues ranging from land grabs to sexual exploitation on the plantation.