Africa is at the forefront of the land grab crisis in the Global South, with nearly 1,000 large-scale land deals for agriculture recorded across the continent since 2000.
Experts say the economic forces now reshaping agriculture are similar to ones that have transformed residential real estate over the last two decades, with investors — from pension plans to well-to-do urban families — fuelling speculation and driving up real estate prices
Russia's Agro-Industrial Holding Company has confirmed plans for the construction of a 500 ha greenhouse complex in the Keles district of the Turkestan region.
Les grandes familles agricoles demeurent les plus grands joueurs au pays, mais les investisseurs institutionnels et les spéculateurs gagnent du terrain dans l'Ontario, au Canada
Des membres du collectif ”Sauvons la commune de Mbane” ont organisé une marche pacifique dans les artères de la commune de Mbane, dans le nord du Sénégal, pour dénoncer l’accaparement des terres de leur collectivité territoriale.
Elite Agro exploite des fermes localement et à travers une centaine de projets dans le monde, dont l'Afrique, pour satisfaire le marché emirati.
Les communautés riveraines des plantations de la société Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC) au nord-est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) revendiquent un peu plus de 58 000 hectares de terres et veulent accéder aux titres fonciers de la société pour connaître les limites de ses concessions.
The Bodi people have been decimated since the Gibe III dam came into operation and diverted the Omo River’s waters to large-scale irrigation schemes.
Carbon Done Right plans a stock market flotation and says it has secured access to 57,000 hectares in Sierra Leoone—but no leases have been registered with local authorities
Representatives of the Awyu and Moi communities from the Indonesian province of West Papua held traditional ceremonies outside the country’s Supreme Court calling for their traditional land and forests to be protected from palm oil plantations. The Awyu have also intervened in appeals taken by two other palm oil companies against a decision to cancel permits that it had previously issued for them to clear Indigenous lands.
Temasek-owned GenZero is among investors backing the first phase of an ecosystem restoration project, which at full scale targets to plant thicket on 100,000 ha of land across the Eastern and Western Capes of South Africa.
Since 2019, the country has added some 175,000 hectares of tree plantations, almost all the fast-growing, carbon-sucking Pinus radiata pine
