Uganda: Palm oil plantation expansion
- Witness Radio
- 12 February 2025
A disturbing alliance between a palm oil company, district officials, and a college school is actively seizing land from farming communities in Buvuma district for their own profit
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Cameroon’s striking workers win against French sugar giant despite “bloody repression”
- Peoples Dispatch
- 12 February 2025
Longstanding labor unrest over low wages, union suppression, and unsafe work conditions at Cameroon’s largest sugar company, owned by a French agro-giant, erupted into a strike on January 26 over delayed payments.
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Propietarios y arrendatarios, los dueños del agro
- El coehete a la luna
- 11 February 2025
Frente a crises de pools de siembra como de Los Grobo, empresas agroexportadoras - (ABCD, Vitarra (fusión de Bunge y Glencore), COFCO - que antes tenían los puertos para exportación, extendieron su actividad, primero al acopio, y luego al alquiler de campos bajo los esquemas del sistema financiero, que son básicamente los mismos que compraron los títulos de deuda de la Argentina.
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Museveni meets EcoNetix delegation to explore Uganda’s carbon market potential
- Ugdiplomat
- 11 February 2025
Talks with a delegation led by Austria's former Minister of Agriculture Elisabeth Köstinger focused on leveraging Uganda’s vast natural resources to generate carbon credits.
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Philippines: MIC, Thai group to form $1-B investment fund
- Inquirer
- 11 February 2025
The country’s sovereign wealth fund signed an MOU with the CP Group laying the groundwork for the establishment of of a $1 billion private equity fund that will target agriculture, food production, digital innovation and green energy.
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El papa denuncia la amenaza a los pueblos indígenas por el acaparamiento de sus tierras
- EFE
- 10 February 2025
El papa Francisco denunció este lunes la amenaza que suponen a los pueblos indígenas «el incremento del acaparamiento de las tierras de cultivo por parte de empresas multinacionales, los grandes inversores y los Estados».
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Ley sudafricana sobre la propiedad de la tierra trata de salvar una dura brecha
- La Nación
- 10 February 2025
Nueva regla permite expropiar tierras - algunos casos sin indemnización - cómo reparación al legado colonial y del apartheid en el país. Solo el 4% de las tierras son propiedad de negros, que representan 80% de los 60 millones de habitantes de Sudáfrica. 26 millones de hectáreas -a tres cuartas partes de las tierras - siguen en manos de blancos - 8% de la población. .
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Sosucam : en colère, les employés détruisent 150 hectares de plantations de canne à sucre
- Investir au Cameroun
- 06 February 2025
La Société sucrière du Cameroun (groupe Castel) vient de voir 150 hectares de plantations partir en fumée suite à une grève des employés, qui a dégénéré en émeute le 4 février 2025 dans la localité de Nkoteng.
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Sécurité alimentaire - La COI aux côtés de Madagascar
- L'Express de Madagascar
- 06 February 2025
Avec ses millions d’hectares de terres cultivables, la Grande Île, qui ambitionne de retrouver son statut de grenier de l’océan Indien, peut s’aligner sur un objectif régional porté par Edgard Razafindravahy : la mise en place d’un “espace agricole de la Commission de l’océan Indien” où les États membres collaboreront pour valoriser des terres en vue de produire des denrées agricoles essentielles
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Burkina Faso – Nouvelles lois foncières interdisent aux étrangers l’acquisition de terres agricoles
- APR News
- 06 February 2025
Cette décision, prise lors du conseil des ministres du 5 février 2025, vise à améliorer la gestion du foncier et à renforcer le contrôle de l’État sur cette question cruciale.
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Nigeria: Taraba State land grab: A recipe for disaster
- Modern Ghana
- 06 February 2025
The Taraba State government's proposed acquisition of over 30,000 hectares of land from the Tiv communities in Wukari, Donga, and Bali Local Government Areas, and over 20,000 hectares from the Kuteb people of Takum and Ussa, has sparked widespread concern and condemnation.
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Vermont puts $35 million into agriculture fund
- P&I
- 06 February 2025
Vermont Pension Investment Commission, Montpelier, committed $35 million to U.S. Core Farmland Fund on behalf of the $6.8 billion Vermont State Retirement Systems.
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Norway strengthens partnership with Tanzania to advance the SAGCOT model to AGCOT
- SAGCOT
- 05 February 2025
Norway pledges US$15mn towards the implementation of the Flagship 7 (Agricultural Masters Plan), which focuses on creating an enabling environment for replicating the SAGCOT model in three additional Agricultural Growth Corridors, namely Mtwara, Central and Northern Corridors.
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Cameroun : face aux violences de Socfin, les femmes résistent !
- Revue Silence
- 04 February 2025
Enquête sur les violences sexuelles et sexistes dans les plantations du groupe Socfin au Cameroun
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No justice in sight for World Bank project-affected communities in Liberia
- Mongabay
- 03 February 2025
More than a year late, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation has finally submitted its response to an investigation that found evidence of grave human rights violations at the Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) that it helps fund in Liberia.
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