• South Sudan reviews National Land Policy
    • Radio Tamazuj
    • 10 July 2024

    The new policy will address post-war conflict over land rights, land grabbing, urban informal settlements as well as conflicts over access to land with pasture and water. Land grabbing, which is the acquisition without regard for the interests of the rights holders, and disagreements regarding county and payam boundaries, will be addressed by the policy.

  • Bolloré échappe à son exclusion du plus grand fonds souverain au monde
    • Les Echos
    • 09 July 2024

    Le plus grand fonds souverain au monde (1.564 milliards d'euros), celui de la Norvège, va rester investi sur le groupe Bolloré en dépit de l'avis contraire de son conseil d'éthique en rapport avec les conditions de travail et les délits supposés dans des champs d'huile de palme au Cameroun.

  • Allegations widen against Indonesian palm oil giant Astra Agro Lestari
    • Mongabay
    • 09 July 2024

    Allegations of illegal activity and land-grabbing against Indonesia’s second-largest palm oil company continue to mount as a new report reveals the firm’s violations appear to be more extensive than initially documented.

  • 10,000 farmers face eviction over sale of 2,000 hectares of Ondo forest reserve
    • Guardian
    • 09 July 2024

    Over 10,000 farmers cultivating farmlands in the Oluwa forest reserve in Odigbo Local Council Area of Ondo State have been thrown into confusion following the alleged sale of over 2,000 hectares of the reserve to the private company Acme Palms Limited by the state government.

  • Main basse sur les médias africains
    • Senenews
    • 08 July 2024

    Vincent Bolloré renforce son emprise sur le continent noir. Des tribunaux aux plantations, en passant par les chaînes de télévision, son influence s'étend comme une ombre. La journaliste Fanny Pigeaud lève le voile sur cette stratégie tentaculaire

  • Algeria and Italy’s Bonifiche Ferraresi sign EUR 430 mn agricultural agreement
    • Enterprise
    • 08 July 2024

    The pair will turn 36k hectares of land in the town of Timimoun in south central Algeria into a productive agricultural field to grow wheat, beans, and other crops, while 49% of the funding will come from Algeria’s investment fund and BF will provide the remaining funds.

  • Algeria and Italy sign $455mn agriculture deal
    • The Peninsula
    • 08 July 2024

    The scheme, which Italian officials called their country's largest agricultural investment in the southern Mediterranean, covers 36,000 hectares in Algeria's Timimoune province

  • Nigerian minister says Saudi Arabia has expressed interest in importing red meat, soybeans
    • Reuters
    • 08 July 2024

    Saudi Arabia has expressed interest in importing 200,000 tonnes of red meat and one million tonnes of soybeans annually from Nigeria, following meetings with the country's agribusiness entrepreneurs.

  • How land speculation drives environmental and human rights violations in Brazil’s Cerrado
    • WBO
    • 05 July 2024

    In the face of intensifying environmental and human rights violations, advocacy groups like Friends of the Earth are calling on the Brazilian and US governments to reign in land speculation and halt the expansion of soy plantations in the Cerrado.

  • Jah Oil to get 25-year approval to till Bayaba Rice Field - Lands Minister
    • The Point
    • 05 July 2024

    According to Gambia's Lands Minister Hamat Bah, the CEO of Jah Oil Company, Hamidou Jah, would be given a minimum of 25 years leasehold to use the Bayaba Rice field but 15 per cent of the developed land would be devoted to the local community.

  • 1000 hectares d’oliviers dans le désert de Tataouine pour une enveloppe de 174 MD
    • Webdo
    • 03 July 2024

    Un financement saoudien de 174 millions de dinars va permettre de créer un pôle d'oliveraies dans le désert de Tataouine, en Tunisie, sur une superficie de 1000 hectares.

  • Uganda: Sexual violence as a tool to grab land
    • Witness Radio
    • 03 July 2024

    When the industrial agriculture investor Agilis Partners targeted the lands of Kiryandongo for its investments, residents never knew that the company would empoly several tactics to force them out. One of them was sexual violence.

  • MVP firm eyes corn plantation in Northern Samar
    • PNA
    • 03 July 2024

    The Metro Pacific Agro Ventures Inc. (MPAV) led by business tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan is eyeing to set up a 500-hectare corn plantation in Northern Samar province, Philippines

  • Turkish investment in greenhouses in Kazakhstan
    • Times of Central Asia
    • 03 July 2024

    Alarko signed a contract with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan to invest $150 million in the country’s agro-industrial sector for the first stage of a project comprising the construction of greenhouses, spanning ​​200 hectares

  • Food security to be a core business for Mega First
    • The Edge
    • 03 July 2024

    Malaysia's MEGA First Corp Bhd has 1,830ha of coconut trees and 730ha of macadamia trees planted in Mondulkiri province, Cambodia, where it has slightly more than 6,000ha of concession land.

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