Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. should allow lands given to agrarian reform beneficiaries be leased by bigger corporations that are into agribusiness, a business leader said Thursday.
Tensions between local communities and large-scale agriculture companies are running high in Cameroon and disputes over land and environmental impacts have increased over the years.
Security guards working for the multinational fruit company Del Monte have been accused of running over two teenagers at a pineapple farm in Kenya that is currently at the centre of an investigation into alleged human rights abuses.
Mr Youval Rasin, the CEO and Chairman of DekelOil Agri Vision PLC, entreated Ghanaian Agric entrepreneurs to approach it for agricultural processing expertise, logistics and farming operations.
Palm Côte d’Ivoire, avec plus de 40 000 ha de plantations industrielles, vient d’acquérir les filiales SAO et TCI qui exploitent 1 300 ha de palmeraies, pour un montant non divulgué, auprès de Touton Négoce Côte d’Ivoire.
"Empresas transnacionais do agronegócio causam violência, grilagem de terras e destruição no Cerrado" é o título de um novo relatório da Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos
"La position de la société civile est très claire : nous défendons les populations locales", a précisé Babacar Diop, un dirigeant du Conseil national de concertation et de coopération des ruraux lors d’un atelier consacré à la gestion de la terre au Sénégal.
In southern Cameroon, about 150km from the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, a bitter story from the colonial era is playing out. Rubber companies are once again destroying rainforests and communities.
Dubai Investments and E20 Investment, an Abu Dhabi-based agribusiness investment company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop 3,750 Ha of agricultural land in Angola, espeically for rice and avocados
A growing list of global household brands, from PepsiCo to L’Oréal to Hershey’s, have suspended their purchases from Astra Agro Lestari (AAL), Indonesia’s second- largest palm oil producer, in the wake of reports of land grabbing, environmental degradation and criminal persecution of human rights defenders by AAL and its subsidiaries operating in Central Sulawesi province.
Les Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC) et l’Institut international d’agriculture tropicale (IITA) ont signé un protocole d’accord pour la production intensive de semences de riz, maïs, soja et manioc qui seront utilisées pour la mise en œuvre du programme de développement des 145 territoires (PDL-145T) dans le volet de la Transformation Agricole
Con la proyección de que se mantengan los precios internacionales, mejore la capacidad local de producir y un mayor uso de la genética moderna, comenienzan a subir las consultas para comprar y alquilar tierra agrícola y ganadera en el país
