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Uninhabited isles bought for new salmon farm sites
- BBC
- 17 February 2025
Fish farming giant Mowi has bought two uninhabited islands off Scotland's west coast for the siting of new salmon farms.
Indonesian prelate warns of legal action against critics
- UCA News
- 17 February 2025
An Indonesian archbishop has appointed a lawyer, threatening legal action against those criticizing his support for a food estate project in South Papua province, that indigenous people oppose fearing destruction of their forests.
Ukraine businessmen eye investment in poultry industry
- PNG Bulletin
- 17 February 2025
Papua New Guinea's Foreign Affairs Minister says the delegation is going to finalise their numbers to invest their money and effort and everything in building a new poultry farm in Lae.
UK Asset Green signs a $600M project agreement with EIH, EABC
- FanaBC
- 17 February 2025
The Ethiopian Investment Holdings and Agricultural Works Corporation signed a 600 million USD shareholders agreement to jointly invest in a 15,000 ha Integrated Dairy and Commercial Farming Project with the United Kingdom’s Asset Green Company.
THACO invests $1B in Cambodia agriculture, eyes $800M yearly revenue by 2028
- Phnom Penh Post
- 17 February 2025
THACO AGRI, a subsidiary of Vietnam’s Truong Hai Group Corporation (THACO), operates fruit farms and cattle ranches on over 33,000 ha in Kratie and Ratanakiri provinces.
Ukraine and Saudi Arabia will hold a joint business forum in May
- Odessa Journal
- 16 February 2025
Ukraine and Saudi Arabia are determined to strengthen cooperation in the agricultural sector and a joint forum with the participation of business representatives from both countries will take place in May.
Indonesia: Fear and raiders in Papua
- The Gecko Project
- 14 February 2025
How thousands of Indonesian soldiers are forcing through a vast agricultural project in indigenous lands and forests
Al Dahra: "We're proud to announce a landmark partnership with the Government of Kenya!"
- Al Dhara
- 14 February 2025
UAE company Al Dhara announces that, under the patronage of H.E. Dr. William Ruto, President of the Republic of Kenya, it has signed an MoU to develop and manage up to 200,000 acres of irrigated farmland in the Galana-Kulalu Ranch
Land Grabbers, with support from sectors of the state, attack communities in the Cerrado of Piauí
- Rede Social
- 13 February 2025
Threats, intimidation and armed militias prevent the free movement of community residents in their own territories. The Collective of Traditional Peoples and Communities of the Cerrado denounces violence by land grabbers, who are supported by sectors of the state.
Uganda: Palm oil plantation expansion
- Witness Radio
- 12 February 2025
A disturbing alliance between a palm oil company, district officials, and a college school is actively seizing land from farming communities in Buvuma district for their own profit
Cameroon’s striking workers win against French sugar giant despite “bloody repression”
- Peoples Dispatch
- 12 February 2025
Longstanding labor unrest over low wages, union suppression, and unsafe work conditions at Cameroon’s largest sugar company, owned by a French agro-giant, erupted into a strike on January 26 over delayed payments.
Propietarios y arrendatarios, los dueños del agro
- El coehete a la luna
- 11 February 2025
Frente a crises de pools de siembra como de Los Grobo, empresas agroexportadoras - (ABCD, Vitarra (fusión de Bunge y Glencore), COFCO - que antes tenían los puertos para exportación, extendieron su actividad, primero al acopio, y luego al alquiler de campos bajo los esquemas del sistema financiero, que son básicamente los mismos que compraron los títulos de deuda de la Argentina.