Earlier this year, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made an unexpected commitment related to foreign investment in land and community land rights.
In the past year, a total area of 90,682 hectares of the Cambodia ELCs land had been taken back from 23 companies and put under the management of the Environment Ministry
Aparte de que se sancione el acaparamiento de tierra, la Ecuarunari propone incorporar otros tres elementos: exoneración del pago del impuesto predial a quienes tengan menos de 10 hectáreas, libertad para parcelar la tierra y ejercicio de la autodeterminación en territorios ancestrales.
Ukraine's newly appoined Minister of the Economy has managed money-losing funds for years as partner of agribusiness investor East Capital, but he never presided over anything as hopeless as the Ukrainian economy.
The construction of a huge dam in Ethiopia and the introduction of large-scale agricultural businesses has been controversial, and finding out what local people think can be hard.
EIA organise un atelier pour renforcer les capacités de la société civile, des leaders des communautés et des peuples autochtones pour mieux appréhender les implications du développement du palmier à huile.
A regional workshop in mid-December brought Civil Society Organizations, local communities, and Indigenous people groups in the Congo Basin together to address the emerging threat of palm oil development in the region.
Cargill has acquired the Poliplant Group, giving it approximately 50,000 hectares of land adjacent to Cargill’s existing palm oil operations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
The executive supervising MIDROC's Ethiopian agriculture projects talks to The Africa Report about how rocketing consumption has been an opportunity for the company.
Olam has snapped up a diverse global portfolio of assets that includes rice farms in Nigeria, almond orchards in Australia, dairy operations in Uruguay and coffee plantations in Laos.
Organisations from Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, and the Republic of Congo, agree to a "joint position" on the expansion of palm oil in the region.
Amatheon’s Ugandan plans comprise rainfed growing of crops such as maize, soya beans, sunflower, rice and sorghum, and it is actively looking into livestock production.
Les agriculteurs maliens soutiennent les réformes lancées par le gouvernement, mais demandent aussi la fin de blocages dans le règlement des litiges fonciers.
La aprobación por Senado del convenio con China y la posterior visita del Vicegobernador de Río Negro al Dragón asiático reactualizan los incumplidos anuncios de inversiones por u$s 20.000 millones realizados por Néstor Kirchner y de € 1.148 millones el ex gobernador Saiz.
Des villageois protestent contre une compagnie chinoise qu’ils accusent d’accaparer illégalement leurs terres.
