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Tell Samsung to stop its destruction of Indonesian rainforest for palm oil and timber production by dropping  joint venture with a Korean-Indonesian agribusiness company, Korindo
Please help sign the petition here.
 
 
Kindly support the struggle against large-scale industrial oil palm plantations by Okomu Oil Palm PLC (a member of the global SOCFIN) in Edo State, Nigeria. Sign on with this link and share: http://erafoen.org/index.php/2017/07/28/uphold-edo-state-government-revocation-order-on-okomu-oil-palm-company-plc/
 
Reuters | 22 Aug 2017
China's COFCO Capital draws new state, private shareholders

A group of state and private companies will invest a total of 6.9 billion yuan($1.04 billion) in COFCO Capital, a subsidiary of state-run agribusiness COFCO Group.

MNA | 21 Aug 2017
Iran to launch agricultural cultivation in Uruguay

Deputy Iranian agriculture minister, while pointing to imports of rice from Uruguay, said Iran had made an overseas farming plan for cultivating rice in the South American country.

The Telegraph | 19 Aug 2017
China's 'richest chicken farmer' front of brood for Moy Park

Liu Yonghao, chairman of China’s agrichemical business New Hope has joined a brood of bidders for a £1bn takeover of Northern Irish poultry giant Moy Park.

Reuters | 19 Aug 2017
China's COFCO forms U.S. grain supply partnership with Growmark

China's state-owned COFCO International Ltd (CIL) and U.S. farm cooperative Growmark Inc will partner in a deal that gives China more direct access to the food it imports.

African Business Magazine | 18 Aug 2017
Dangote turns to Nigerian agriculture

Nigeria’s biggest private sector company, the Dangote Group, has decided to turn its attention to agribusiness. Dangote will pay the state government N1.2bn ($3.7m) for 16,000 hectares of land and give it an equity stake in the company.

Mongabay | 17 Aug 2017
Indians win key land rights victory in Brazil’s Supreme Court

Brazil’s Supreme Court made two key decisions that strongly favored the country’s indigenous communities last Wednesday, against the claims of Mato Grosso state.

Arab Finance | 16 Aug 2017
South Korea to build $10bln integrated agricultural city in Egypt

Egypt and the Korea-Arab Society (KAS) signed a cooperation protocol to build a $10 billion integrated agricultural city in the North African country. The city will be stretched over an area of 300,000 feddans (126,000 ha) in the southeast part of the Qattara Depression.

All Africa | 16 Aug 2017
Angola: Companies invest over USD 300 million in agro-industry

A USD 310 million investment contract signed between private companies for Agro-industrial Complex of Capanda (PAC) in northern Malanje province, Angola. The Agro-industrial Park occupies an area of 411.000 hectares.

Global Voices | 16 Aug 2017
Global NGOs call for the release of Cambodian land rights activist Tep Vanny

65 civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-government organizations (NGOs) from across the world signed a unity statement urging Cambodian government to release land rights activist Tep Vanny, who has been in detention for the past 12 months.

Addis Fortune | 12 Aug 2017
French company relocates investment plant over land dispute

The Oromia Investment Commission (OIC) faced a challenge in relocating 600 farmers from the 335ha of land leased to European Food and Cattle Plc in East Shoa, Ethiopia. Farmers, who claim the compensation is too low, resist relocating from the area.

Business Wire | 04 Aug 2017
The Rohatyn Group to acquire GMO Renewable Resources

GMORR manages approximately $2.1 billion in rural real estate assets across eight countries and 600,000 hectares.

GAI | 24 Jul 2017
Hassad Australia sells Clover Downs Station for $27M

Hassad Australia, a $469 million farming company and wholly owned subsidiary of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has sold the Clover Downs Station located in Queensland, Australia, to farmer Bill Zell for $27 million.

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Libération des militants de l'#UACDDDD #Mali après 15 jours de détention arbitraire par le juge de la commune VI. #Touchepasànosmilitants — Caravane (@caravanecglte) August 11, 2017
 
CommodAfrica | 22 aout 2017
Dekeloil a démarré sa deuxième unité de palmier à huile en Côte d’Ivoire

Dekeloil a obtenu les droits pour planter des palmiers à huile sur une superficie d’environ 24 000 hectares, principalement sur d’anciennes plantations de cacao et palmier à huile.

Jeune Afrique | 22 aout 2017
Sénégal : recours devant la Cour suprême pour l’annulation d’une concession rizicole marocaine

Cette semaine un collectif de 2 000 habitants de la commune de Dodel porte ses récriminations à l’encontre d’un vaste projet rizicole devant la Cour suprême du Sénégal.

Le Monde | 21 aout 2017
Huile de palme : polémique autour des plantations de Bolloré au Cameroun

Des ONG et des villageois mettent en cause les immenses concessions qui occupent les terres et polluent l’eau.

Agence Ecofin | 21 aout 2017
Nigéria: le groupe Dangote indemnise les propriétaires affectés par son projet de raffinerie de sucre à Nasarawa

Dangote a débuté le paiement d’une indemnisation à plusieurs propriétaires terriens dans l’Etat de Nasarawa qui ont perdu leurs terres dans le cadre d’un projet de raffinerie de sucre de 60 0000 ha

Agence Ecofin | 18 aout 2017
Angola : 4 compagnies investiront 310 millions $ dans la production agricole à Malanje

Cette enveloppe ira à la production de céréales, de fruits, de légumes et de viande sur 35 000 hectares des 411 000 du Pôle agro-industriel de Capanda

| 17 aout 2017
Lettre ouverte à Monsieur Le Président de la République de Madagascar relative au "Rendez-vous Fotoambita n°12" consacré à la Terre et au Foncier.

Le Collectif TANY cherche des éclaircissements sur la politique du gouvernment malgache sur la vente des terrains aux étrangers

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