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Crise sociale à la Socapalm : appelé au banc des accusés, le chef du village Apouh rectifie la copie du préfet
- La Voix du Koat
- 11 April 2025
Droit de réponse à la suite du point presse du Préfet de la Sanaga Maritime
Pakistan: Peasant unions to mobilize on April 13 against corporate farming, land grabs, and for fair crop prices
- LVC
- 11 April 2025
Peasant unions, including the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC), have announced a nationwide protest on April 13 to oppose the so-called Green Pakistan Initiative, which they claim is a front to open up the country’s agriculture sector to corporate farming.
Position officielle de la Socapalm sur le conflit foncier à Apouh : dialogue, responsabilité sociale et engagement durable
- Camer Press Agency
- 10 April 2025
Selon une déclaration officielle transmise à Camer Press Agency, l’entreprise se dit « attachée à un dialogue constructif avec les communautés riveraines et les autorités locales, dans le respect du cadre légal et des droits de chacun »
Cameroun : le chef du village Apouh dénonce l’accaparement des terres par la Socapalm et l’inaction de l’État
- Camer Press Agency
- 09 April 2025
La principale revendication porte sur la restitution d’un espace vital estimé à environ 3000 hectares.
Kyrgyzstan to plant 10 million trees in Issyk-Kul via carbon credit initiative
- Times of Central Asia
- 09 April 2025
The joint initiative with UK-based Valor Carbon aims to plant over 10 million trees across 25,000 hectares in the Issyk-Kul region, with the potential to attract up to $180 million in climate financing.
Concessions granted for large-scale durian farming in Laos
- Vientiane Times
- 09 April 2025
Authorities in Attapeu province have awarded concessions to three Lao companies, enabling them to grow durian on hundreds of hectares of land as part of the government’s broader effort to boost the cultivation of fruit on a commercial basis.
Uganda: Palm oil project investor in land grab
- Witness Radio
- 09 April 2025
Witness Radio has petitioned the Buganda Land Board (BLB) to investigate and address concerns regarding forced land evictions of Kabaka’s subjects and tenants of BLB, whose land is targeted for oil palm expansion in Buvuma district.
Liberia: Gov’t prosecutes Mary Boimah, others, in 2024 SRC protest
- New Dawn
- 07 April 2025
The Liberian government has taken legal action against former union leaders of the Salala Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia following violent protests at the Salala Rubber Corporation in Margibi County on June 27, 2024.
World's largest deforestation project destroys forests for bioethanol fuel, sugar and rice in Indonesia
- National Observer
- 07 April 2025
Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on the land to survive.
‘Carbon grabs’ are the new ‘land grabs’ in Africa, says Bank chief
- Heritage Times
- 06 April 2025
The head of the African Development Bank says big foreign companies are not paying Africa fairly for its role in fighting climate change. He calls this unfair practice “carbon grabs.”
Australia: Chris Corrigan leads investors in $500m farm sale to Canadian fund
- AFR
- 06 April 2025
A venture backed by Canada’s PSP Investments has bought out its co-investors in the Kooba aggregation in New South Wales, which has 30,000 hectares of cotton, crops and livestock and 1,400 hectares of almond orchards.
‘I bought their dream’: How a US company’s huge land deal in Senegal went bust
- The Columbian
- 06 April 2025
Rusting pipes in a barren field and unpaid workers are what remain after a U.S. company promised to turn a huge piece of land in Senegal — about twice the size of Paris — into an agricultural project and create thousands of jobs.