AgDevCo secures $90mn in funding to further invest in African agribusiness
- GAI
- 03 June 2024
The funding comes from the UK's CDC Group. Norfund and the US DFC.
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The World Bank and land: some questions
- Zimbabweland
- 03 June 2024
A new World Bank report on land in Africa acknowledges the failures of large land deals but still promotes large-scale land investments.
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Land squeeze: The hidden battle for Africa’s soils
- African Arguments
- 03 June 2024
Africa is at the forefront of the land grab crisis in the Global South, with nearly 1,000 large-scale land deals for agriculture recorded across the continent since 2000.
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Investors reshaped Canadian home real estate. Something similar is happening in agriculture
- CBC
- 03 June 2024
Experts say the economic forces now reshaping agriculture are similar to ones that have transformed residential real estate over the last two decades, with investors — from pension plans to well-to-do urban families — fuelling speculation and driving up real estate prices
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Kazakhstan to build the world’s largest greenhouse
- Times of Central Asia
- 03 June 2024
Russia's Agro-Industrial Holding Company has confirmed plans for the construction of a 500 ha greenhouse complex in the Keles district of the Turkestan region.
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Les terres agricoles sont-elles la proie d’investisseurs et de spéculateurs?
- Radio Canada
- 03 June 2024
Les grandes familles agricoles demeurent les plus grands joueurs au pays, mais les investisseurs institutionnels et les spéculateurs gagnent du terrain dans l'Ontario, au Canada
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Manifestation à Mbane sur le foncier : Un collectif marche contre l’accaparement des terres
- Leral.net
- 03 June 2024
Des membres du collectif ”Sauvons la commune de Mbane” ont organisé une marche pacifique dans les artères de la commune de Mbane, dans le nord du Sénégal, pour dénoncer l’accaparement des terres de leur collectivité territoriale.
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Emirats arabes unis : cultiver des produits frais... dans le désert !
- RFI
- 31 May 2024
Elite Agro exploite des fermes localement et à travers une centaine de projets dans le monde, dont l'Afrique, pour satisfaire le marché emirati.
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En RDC, les communautés tentent de récupérer leurs terres spoliées par le géant de l’huile de palme PHC
- Mongabay
- 30 May 2024
Les communautés riveraines des plantations de la société Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC) au nord-est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) revendiquent un peu plus de 58 000 hectares de terres et veulent accéder aux titres fonciers de la société pour connaître les limites de ses concessions.
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“After the dam, nothing is good”: How Ethiopia’s mega project devastated centuries of survival strategies
- African Arguments
- 29 May 2024
The Bodi people have been decimated since the Gibe III dam came into operation and diverted the Omo River’s waters to large-scale irrigation schemes.
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‘Saviour of carbon markets’ faces questions over African land rights
- Source Material
- 29 May 2024
Carbon Done Right plans a stock market flotation and says it has secured access to 57,000 hectares in Sierra Leoone—but no leases have been registered with local authorities
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Papuans head to Indonesian court to protect forests from palm oil
- Al Jazeera
- 28 May 2024
Representatives of the Awyu and Moi communities from the Indonesian province of West Papua held traditional ceremonies outside the country’s Supreme Court calling for their traditional land and forests to be protected from palm oil plantations. The Awyu have also intervened in appeals taken by two other palm oil companies against a decision to cancel permits that it had previously issued for them to clear Indigenous lands.
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