• Alan Kessler calls for digital leap to transform African agriculture
    • Alan Kessler calls for digital leap to transform African agriculture
    • 24 June 2025

    Alan Kessler, a leading figure in agricultural development and innovation, has issued a bold call for a “digital leap” to drive transformation across Africa’s farming sector. According to Kessler, incremental improvements are no longer sufficient to address the complex and urgent challenges facing farmers across the continent. Instead, he urges stakeholders to embrace a full-scale digital revolution to modernize agriculture and enhance food security.

  • African Food Security: Cultivating Sustainable Solutions for Africa’s Agricultural Future
    • African Food Security: Cultivating Sustainable Solutions for Africa’s Agricultural Future
    • 24 June 2025

    As food insecurity continues to affect over 280 million people across the African continent, new initiatives are emerging that aim to transform agricultural production at scale. Among them is African Food Security (AFS), a New York-based agribusiness company now operating expansive farms in Africa with a stated commitment to sustainability and local development.

  • UN calls out Indonesia’s Merauke food estate for displacing Indigenous communities
    • Mongabay
    • 24 June 2025

    U.N. special rapporteurs have raised concerns that Indonesia’s food estate project in Merauke district is displacing Indigenous communities, clearing forests without consent, and using military forces to suppress dissent, threatening more than 50,000 Indigenous people.

  • Crypto et corruption : la facette cachée du plan d’achat de terrains en $CAR 
    • Afrique IT News
    • 23 June 2025

    Les 1 700 ha mis en vente par le gouvernement centrafricain étaient des plantations agricoles

  • PBB soal PSN Merauke, koalisi sebut respon pemerintah tak jujur
    • Mongabay
    • 22 June 2025

    Koalisi masyarakat sipil dan masyarakat adat yang terdampak Proyek Strategis Nasional (PSN) Merauke, Papua Selatan, menyanggah tanggapan pemerintah Indonesia terhadap sembilan Pelapor Khusus Perserikatan Bangsa-bangsa (UN Special Procedure Mechanism) ihwal pelanggaran Hak Asasi Manusia (HAM) dan dampak lingkungan proyek tersebut.

  • Saudi prince to launch $5bn funds for GCC food security
    • MSN
    • 20 June 2025

    A Riyadh private equity firm established by a Saudi royal is joining forces with Canadian asset manager Cordiant Group to set up two funds worth $5 billion for agricultural investments across the GCC and globally.

  • Farming the Future: African Food Security ignites hope in Somaliland’s drylands
    • https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2025/06/11/farming-the-future-african-food-security-ignites-hope-in-somalilands-drylands/
    • 20 June 2025

    In the arid yet resilient landscapes of Somaliland, a quiet revolution in agriculture is beginning to unfold. African Food Security (AFS), a New York-based agribusiness firm, has launched a transformative initiative aimed at cultivating sustainable, community-led farming across the region.

  • Negocio arrocero entre Vietnam y Cuba transforma paradigmas en cesión de tierras
    • Inter Press Service en Cuba
    • 19 June 2025

    En un raro acuerdo, el gobierno cubano entrega el control de 1.000 hectáreas a una empresa extranjera. La empresa asiática Agri VMA cultivará arroz por tres años vendiendo su paquete tecnológico, como semillas híbridas y pesticidas, mientras Cuba obtiene ingresos por el alquiler de la tierra y la sustitución de importaciones.

  • Communities cry foul over IFC’s weak response to SRC abuses
    • Daily Observer
    • 19 June 2025

    In 2019, 22 communities in Liberia filed a complaint with the World Bank Group’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, accusing the International Finance Corporation of fueling abuse and environmental destruction through a loan to the Salala Rubber Corporation to expand its rubber plantations—with devastating consequences.

  • Are Chinese investors grabbing Zambian land? Study finds that’s a myth
    • The Conversation
    • 19 June 2025

    Researcher argues that Chinese investors have preferred different investment models according to the specific rules of land access, transfer and control of three land tenure systems in Zambia.

  • 'Lihat langsung hutan, hak dan kehidupan kami direbut paksa' – Masyarakat adat Merauke minta pelapor khusus PBB datang ke Papua
    • BBC
    • 19 June 2025

    Sembilan pelapor khusus PBB telah mengirimkan surat kepada pemerintah Indonesia dan perusahaan PT Global Papua Abadi meminta tanggapan dari kedua pihak atas dugaan pelanggaran HAM dan lingkungan hidup dalam pengembangan perkebunan pangan dan energi skala luas melalui Proyek Strategis Nasional (PSN) Merauke. Lebih dari 630.000 ha akan diubah jadi lahan tebu, pengolahan gula dan produksi bioetanol dan lebih dari satu juta hektare akan dijadikan lahan sawah dan perkebunan tanaman lainnya.

  • Nigeria: Cassava farmers raise alarm over alleged land grabbing in Ekiti
    • Guardian
    • 18 June 2025

    The Nigeria Cassava Growers Association (NCGA) has raised an alarm over the alleged illegal occupation of 6,000 hectares of farmland in Ipao-Ekiti by the Agbeyewa Group of Companies, accusing the Ekiti State Government of fraudulently reallocating land that the association legally acquired.

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