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Jaguar scheme opts for forestry and farmland
- Pensions Expert
- 04 November 2018
According to its latest investment report, the Jaguar Pension Plan placed $16.5m in an agriculture fund managed by Boston-based Folium Capital
Okomu Oil warns NGO to desist from spreading false allegation on its RSPO status
- Vanguard
- 04 November 2018
OKOMU Oil Palm Company Plc has warned Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria to desist from spreading spurious and libellous allegations that the company has been parading an RSPO certificate which it does not possess
Affaires Daewoo et terrain de la FJKM: les abus fonciers de Ravalomanana
- News Mada
- 03 November 2018
Certains tentent de faire oublier les affaires louches impliquant l’ancien président malgache Marc Ravalomanana actuellement en campagne pour ré-élection.
Une caravane pour lutter contre l'accaparement des terres et les semences OGM
- RFI
- 03 November 2018
« Ils sont en train de produire du niébé Bt et de l’arachide Bt probablement pour l’imposer et pour le diffuser au niveau des pays de l’Afrique de l’Ouest » affirme Sidy Ba du CNCR
Huile de palme : front social orageux pour Olam au Gabon
- Jeune Afrique
- 02 November 2018
Un conflit social sur la principale plantation gabonaise de palmiers à huile du géant singapourien a pris ces derniers jours une tournure violente. Plusieurs salariés ont été interpellés.
Swazi sugar corporation accused of illegal evictions
- Farmers Weekly
- 02 November 2018
The Swaziland Justice Forum has accused the Royal Swaziland Sugar Corporation of being complicit in the illegal eviction of sugar cane farmers and their families from what should have been by now their freehold land.
Quick take: Why is African agribusiness luring GCC investors?
- The National
- 31 October 2018
Investors from the Middle East have been tempted by African agribusiness for years, and a report on Monday by real estate consultancy Knight Frank suggests demand is growing.
Paraguay: Territorio en disputa
- BASE-IS
- 31 October 2018
Un nuevo Informe Especial, elaborado por los investigadores Abel Areco y Abel Irala, refleja la situación de la Colonia Yvypé, un territorio en disputa entre sojeros brasileños y los pequeños productores campesinos que buscan recuperar las tierras irregularmente ocupadas por los impulsores del modelo de agronegocios.
Sénégal : Des milliers d'hectares affectés à des investisseurs étrangers sans l'accord des populations
- Sud Quotidien
- 31 October 2018
Le phénomène de l'accaparement des terres perdure dans la région de Saint-Louis où les litiges fonciers sont monnaies courantes.
Sign the statement! RSPO: 14 years failing to eliminate violence and destruction from the industrial palm oil sector
- WRM
- 31 October 2018
We invite organizations to sign on and support the statement, which denounces that the RSPO, since it was created 14 years ago, has been a tool that served the corporate interests of the oil palm sector.
Three MoUs signed at Agriscape 2018
- Gulf News
- 30 October 2018
MOUs signed by UAE government include a 2,500 ha SEZ zone with Uganda for large-scale agricultural development and another with Al Dahra Holding for collaboration on the implementation of the National Strategy for Future Food Security.
Seeds of resistance, harvests of hope: Farmers halt a land grab in Mozambique
- FoodTank
- 30 October 2018
With a massive Chinese rice plantation project floundering, the Tsakane farmers of Xai-Xai offer a vivid demonstration that perhaps the best way to grow more food is to give poor food producers more land.