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Moo Moo Farm looks to expand dairy operations
- Phnom Penh Post
- 19 January 2023
Government says it will not give company a concession for an additional 10,000ha of land in Mondulkiri province, in accordance with a 2012 government decision.
"Beware of land grabbing: Central Africans are in danger of becoming foreigners in their own country", say the bishops
- Agenzia Fides
- 19 January 2023
Bishops say they are witnessing a veritable avalanche of citizens from other countries in the African region and even from other parts of the world buying up land in the Central African Republic.
Athlete investment platform Patricof Co. makes an initial investment in farmland
- GAI
- 18 January 2023
The $5 million investment is the first in what Patricof Co. stated will be a broader farmland strategy that will ultimately include investments in four more US farms.
Tchad: À Kana, interrogations sur les zones franches prévues par l'État
- RFI
- 18 January 2023
Au Tchad, la création d’une zone économique spéciale dans la province du Logone Occidental alimente la controverse.
Community land rights defenders that have been on trial since 2020 are set to return to court this January
- Witness Radio
- 17 January 2023
Great seasons SMC Limited is one of the multinationals that have forcefully evicted thousands of local people and criminalized activities of smallholder farmers resisting illegal evictions in the Kiryandongo district.
Cat Urbigkit: Corporate capture of ag lands is happening now
- Cowboy State Daily
- 17 January 2023
NFFC says that a new “land grab” is underway in the US, with Wall Street investors, pension funds, and other financiers looking for a safe place to park their money and turning to farmlands as their preferred investment.
At a rubber plantation in Liberia, history repeats in a fight over land
- Mongabay
- 17 January 2023
Communities say a SOCFIN subsidiary used a $10M loan from the World Bank's IFC to turn the forests where they’d farmed and held sacred rituals into a massive rubber plantation.
Sierra Leone: Living and resisting around Socfin’s oil palm plantations
- WRM & WONARPI
- 17 January 2023
Episode 1 of a new podcast that highlights the different layers of oppression women face once industrial plantations invade their territories.
Poscast: Las voces de las mujeres que viven alrededor de las plantaciones de palma aceitera de Socfin en Sierra Leona
- WRM
- 16 January 2023
La empresa de plantaciones de palma aceitera Socfin ha traído violencia y opresión a varios países africanos. Sierra Leona no es una excepción.
PLS Plantations formed JV with Japanese companies to cultivate durian farming project
- New Straits Times
- 16 January 2023
PLS LESB will partner with Japan's Millennium Agriculture Technology and MyFarm Inc, Japan to develop up to 1,000 hectares of durian plantations in Pahang, Malaysia.
Polémique autour de la réquisition des terres par le gouvernement tchadien
- VoA Afrique
- 16 January 2023
Au Tchad, des habitants de la province du Logone Occidental dénoncent ce qu’ils considèrent comme accaparement des terres.
Government approves new economic land concession despite moratorium, conflict ensues
- CamboJa News
- 16 January 2023
Cambodian government awarded a new Economic Land Concession (ELC) in March 2022 for the first time in nearly a decade despite an existing moratorium on ELCs. The new ELC site comprises more than 5,000 hectares of forest land in Stung Treng province.
Ikun Dairy Farm: Ekiti pays N21m compensation to landowners
- PM News
- 15 January 2023
Nigeria's Ekiti State government says 263 farming families were compensated for lands that were taken to establish a joint venture dairy farm with the South Africa-based dairy company Promisador.
Logone Occidental: Polémique autour de 3500 hectares réquisitionné par l’Etat dans le Lac-Wey
- Safi News Tchad
- 15 January 2023
L’Etat tchadien s’accapare de 3500 hectares de terres agricoles pour une ZES. Des jeunes et moins jeunes résistent.
Le Resac demande la suspension des travaux de bornage de la Zes du Logone occidental
- DBnews
- 14 January 2023
Dans une déclaration commune, les représentants du Réseau des acteurs du changement des deux Logones, au Tchad, demandent la suspension des travaux de bornage pour une Zone économique spéciale et la réalisation des études d’impact environnemental et social avant la mise en œuvre de ce projet.