By scoring countries in terms of ease of accessing land for agribusiness, the World Bank's new EBA land indicator seeks to accelerate land privatization and to facilitate corporate access to land in developing countries.
Elite Agro LLC, registered in Abu Dhabi, recently acquired the 100% ownership in Al Rawafed Holding, thus also becoming the owner of 12,000 hectares of arable land in Serbia and one of the largest landowners in the country.
Following its acquisition of 17,954 ha from the Edo State government for palm oil cultivation, Dufil Prima Foods has embarked on a crop compensation payment to 1,628 farmers across 14 communities.
Dans le cadre d'une campagne d’information sur les violences faites aux femmes riveraines des plantations de palmiers à huile, l’Ong Muyissi Environnement organise une tournée dans des villages gabonnais impactés par la multinationale Olam
Au lieu de destiner les terres malgaches à être occupées et exploitées par des Etats, entreprises et individus étrangers venant de pays plus riches, les dirigeants malagasy devraient procéder à l’organisation d’un meilleur accès des Malagasy à la terre dans toutes les régions
France Télévisions a remporté son quatrième procès face à Vincent Bolloré, mais le chef d'entreprise a décidé de saisir la Cour de cassation
At least six people have been killed in a series of deadly Amazon land conflicts in Brazil, stoking fears of rising violence in the region under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
Abu Dhabi-based Elite Agro LLC, a cereal-producing company, recently acquired 100 percent ownership of AL Rawafed Holding, making the Arab company the owner of 12,000 hectares of arable land in Serbia and joining the group of leading domestic landowners.
À l'origine des manifs qui ont amené à la chute du reǵime : la hausse du prix du pain, multiplié par trois. Pourtant, le Soudan exporte des produits agricoles vers les pays du Golfe, qui ont pris contrôle de plus d'un million d'hectares de ses terres pour leur propres besoins alimentaires.
Founder and CEO of the firm that was active in the rush to buy global farmland on the heels of the 2008 financial crisis has been arrested for defrauding investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Brazil's Alliance of Indigenous Peoples warned about President Bolsonaro's pledges to allow more farming and logging in the Amazon, and called on the EU to put pressure by refusing import of Brazil's agricultural products unless guaranteed that it's not comes from native lands or violated indigenous people's rights.
This historic case against French corporation Bolloré does more than send a strong signal supporting freedom of the press: it is a recognition of the reality for villagers living in the shade of the plantations of SOCAPALM in Cameroon.
