Turkey has been planning since 2014 to meet a significant portion of its food needs by cultivating farmland leased in Sudan but lands have yet to be allocated and there are no staff working at the project's agricultural company.
- Nordic Monitor
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17 April 2022
The first “Ecuadorian Fruits and Vegetables Export Investment Fund” for local and foreign investors has begun with 10 hectares planted in the canton of Batat.
- Aviation Analysis
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17 April 2022
Allocution de bienvenu d’un des Chefs Traditionnel des Communautés Mbonjo suite à la visite de courtoisie et prise de contact du nouveau Directeur de Plantation SOCAPALM par intérim de Dibombari.
Around 150 farmers demonstrated in the Flemish-Brabant city of Halle against the supermarket chain Colruyt, which they claim is buying up too much farmland in Belgium.
- Brussles Times
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16 April 2022
According to the inked deal, Congo will grant Rwanda 12,000 hectares of exploitable land in at least three Departments in the south of the country.
En Belgique, la chaîne de supermarchés Colruyt a acheté plus de 175 hectares de terres agricoles à un prix très fort, devenant un symbole de l’accaparement des terres en Belgique.
The Taliban-run administration inaugurates a US$230M agricultural project covering 20,000 hectares in the eastern Laghman province that will be a joint venture with the private sector and will produce for export.
African Agriculture Inc’s vision, according to Gora Seck, President of the Board, LFT Senegal, is to create 5,000 jobs, sow over 20,000 hectares and develop exports of alfalfa to other countries.
The digitalisation of information on land and natural resources is exacerbating land grabbing in the remaining agricultural frontiers of Latin America.
Agilis is one of the three multinational companies that have been implicated in the land grabbing scandal which has rendered thousands of smallholder farmers homeless in the Kiryandongo district, Uganda.
- Witness Radio
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15 April 2022
The company will make investments worth 25 million euro in Serbia this year, including 9 million euro in the modernisation of farming machinery in Serbia, the company said in an e-mailed statement.
Public authorities using PHC tractors dismantled and burnt down an encampment set up within PHC's Lokumete Estate by villagers for the production of alcohol from the sap of oil palm.