Un collectif d'organisations de la société civile demande aux autorités nigériennes d'arrêter le processus en raison du tort qu'il causerait aux petits agriculteurs.
Last month people in Yala Swamp in Kenya won a court decision against Dominion Farms, a company from the United States, which has been grabbing their land since 2003.
A Korean palm oil company has been dropped by buyers after footage emerged that allegedly shows the illegal burning of vast tracts of tropical forest on lands it holds concessions for in Indonesia.
A Dutch-run flower farm in northern Ethiopia was among a series of foreign-owned plantations attacked by anti-government protesters as unrest in the country spreads.
Au Nigéria, le chinois Wuhan Longfecund Agricultural Development Company Ltd a annoncé son intention d’installer une ferme de production de maïs dans l’Etat de Cross River.
Des communautés villageoises réclament la propriété de 11 000 ha à Famienkro que l’Etat Ivoirien a octroyé à la Compagnie hévéicole de Prikro, filiale du groupe belge SIAT
Cables obtained by the non-profit Oakland Institute through a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that U.S. government officials pushed Cameroon to approve a deeply controversial oil palm development owned by Herakles Farms.
The Chinese company joining forces with Gina Rinehart to buy the Kidman cattle empire has one hurdle to clear in a separate deal to secure a cluster of stations in the Goldfields.
EU Ambassador to Ethiopia responds to criticism of EU's joint project with Ethiopia to facilitate large-scale farmland investments.
The Tanzanian government has issued an order prohibiting customary lands from being sold on long lease to individuals or institutions, as a large portion of land belonging to villages had turned targets of various local and foreign investors.
The current economic model of transferring land to foreign investors on a massive scale fails to acknowledge the rights of rural communities to collectively own and manage their territories.
There is an epidemic that grips Africa, says Father Aniedi Okure
