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The slow massacre: East Phillips and North Desha Counties, Arkansas, then and now
- Arkansas Review
- 16 December 2023
How US pension fund TIAA purchased farmland with a legacy of racism and murder
COP28 : le capitalisme vert contre l’Afrique
- Europe Solidaire
- 14 December 2023
La COP28 ouvre une course effrénée à l’accaparement des forêts africaines par des multinationales présentes sur le marché des crédits carbone.
RDC: Kongo central, les communautés de Kolofuma réclament leurs terres spoliées par la société JVL
- Acutalité CD
- 13 December 2023
Plusieurs villages en République démocratique du Congo réclament leurs terres suite aux accords signés entre leurs ancêtres et la Société Jules Van Lancker (JVL) pendant époque coloniale
Billionaire Mark Cuban backing $1 billion Congo carbon plan
- Bloomberg
- 13 December 2023
A climate startup co-founded by a businessman behind a botched land deal for 400,000 ha in South Sudan has signed a deal to generate $1 billion of carbon credits in the DRC.
Tanzania unveils world-class investment opportunities in agribusiness
- TBI
- 13 December 2023
Tanzania is offering more than 60,000 hectares of fertile land to both foreign and domestic companies to invest in large-scale farming at Mkulazi area in Morogoro.
African Agriculture annonce un développement de ses activités au Sénégal
- Commodafrica
- 12 December 2023
"Nous avons l’intention d’accélérer nos activités opérationnelles suite à notre récente fusion et cotation au Nasdaq, ce qui permettra à African Agriculture de devenir la première société agricole africaine cotée aux États-Unis."
Indonesia prepares 1 mln hectares for sugar factories in Papua
- Antara
- 12 December 2023
The government is preparing one million hectares of land in Papua for investors interested in building sugar factories to help Indonesia achieve sugar self-sufficiency, says Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman.
Al Dahra and Agreena announce carbon farming project on the EU’s largest arable farm at COP28
- Agreena
- 12 December 2023
A partnership between UAE agribusiness, Al Dahra, and Danish climate agtech company, Agreena, will see the largest consolidated arable farm in the European Union transition to regenerative agriculture.
Large-scale landscape restoration: Spades and the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD announce partnerships
- PR Newswire
- 11 December 2023
US-based Spades reaches landscape restoration agreements with Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cote d'Ivoire for projects that span around 10 million hectares and involve the planting of 1.5 billion trees.
The intractable problem of land grabbing in Cambodia
- Equal Times
- 11 December 2023
Local residents who were evicted from their land for a 42,000 hectare sugar cane plantation are all the more bitter now that the unprofitable and poorly financed agricultural project has collapsed.
Au Cambodge, l’insoluble problème de l’accaparement des terres
- Equal Times
- 11 December 2023
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.
Niger, Blue Carbon sign pact on tree planting
- Guardian
- 08 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.
China’s ‘going out’ policy and global agrarian change
- PLAAS
- 07 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
Video: Bitter Harvest
- Equitable Cambodia
- 07 December 2023
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.
10X Capital Venture Acquisition Corp. II and African Agriculture, Inc. announce closing of business combination
- Globe Newswire
- 06 December 2023
Upon listing, African Agriculture will be the first pure-play US-listed agriculture company operating in Africa.