La concession économique de 42.000 hectares a été accordée en 2011, et pour une durée de 70 ans, à cinq entreprises chinoises appartenant toutes au même conglomérat, le Hengfu Group Sugar Industry. Douze ans plus tard, les souvenirs malheureux des évictions sont plus amers que jamais pour les habitants de Preah Vihear : pas rentable et mal financé, le projet agricole a périclité.
- Equal Times
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11 December 2023
Governor Mohammed Bago of Nigeria's Niger State has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Blue Carbon for a carbon capture project to plant one billion new trees on 760,000 hectares in the state.
- Guardian
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08 December 2023
PLAAS continues its discussion with Yan Hariong, exploring China’s ‘Going Out Policy' and its intricate linkages with other developing countries, especially in Africa
British sugar company Tate & Lyle enriched itself off the harvest of stolen land. More than 12,000 Cambodians have been forced off their land, leaving them to suffer through years of destitution.
- Equitable Cambodia
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07 December 2023
Upon listing, African Agriculture will be the first pure-play US-listed agriculture company operating in Africa.
- Globe Newswire
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06 December 2023
Mirova's LDN Fund has raised $208 million from public institutions and private investors and invested in companies like the Swiss company Pamoja which operates nut farms in Kenya and Tanzania
- Fintech Global
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06 December 2023
A World Bank Group entity has agreed to a settlement to end a case alleging that it is liable for financing a notorious palm oil company’s violent land-grabbing campaign in Honduras
- EarthRights
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06 December 2023
African Agriculture Inc, a US company which controls almost 3 million hectares for alfalfa and carbon credit production in Africa, will now be listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
- 10X Capital
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05 December 2023
The people of Okomu community in Edo State have decried the alleged neglect and marginalisation of the area by Okomu Palm Oil, a multinational company and the management of National Park.
- Nigerian Tribune
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05 December 2023
The Dutch company wants to grow to 100 hectares of its own and 100 hectares of cultivation by partner growers in the coming years.
- Horti Daily
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05 December 2023
En la Cámara de Representantes y por iniciativa del gobierno de Gustavo Petro, se radicó un proyecto de ley que prohíbe la propiedad de la tierra en cabeza de personas naturales o jurídicas extranjeras
- Caracol Radio
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04 December 2023
Según Minagricultura, la iniciativa responde a la necesidad de proteger la soberanía nacional y garantizar derechos del campesinado sobre la tierra.
- Portafolio
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04 December 2023
Between 10 and 15 million acres of tropical forests, an area larger than Switzerland, has been razed in Southeast Asia alone since the 1990s to feed our hunger for rubber.
Una investigación de seis meses de Gideon Sarpong, Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi y Audrey Travère ha sacado a la luz las graves repercusiones que la explotación de los recursos de caucho y aceite de palma del Grupo Socfin han causado en la deforestación y el desplazamiento forzado de poblaciones indígenas en Nigeria y Ghana.
- Global Voices
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01 December 2023
Grupo Socfin han causado la deforestación y el desplazamiento forzado de poblaciones indígenas en Nigeria y Ghana con el avance de los monocultivos de palma aceitera y caucho.
- GlobaVoices
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01 December 2023