One final straw for the German company which owns 70,000 ha of land in Oromia has put a definitive end to its Ethiopian adventure.

Cameroonian environmental activist Nasako Besingi was arrested on Monday morning (25th September) in Mundemba, southwest Cameroon, at the headquarters of his NGO, SEFE (Struggle to Economize the Future Environment)

Urgent request from women in Africa to stop the suffering and the violent impacts the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations is creating on womens´ lives.

TIAA Global Agriculture Properties has acquired 10 of the 17 properties making up the SAF portfolio totaling 16,000 hectares across New South Wales, and Victoria.

A caravan of 200 women was stopped by police on their way to Pujehun to urge local authorities to take action against the Luxembourg-based oil palm plantation company SOCFIN for grabbing their lands and committing other related human rights abuses.

WRM talked with Nina Cynthia Kiyindou Yombo at the Congolese Observatory for Human Rights about what she saw during her visit to the ATAMA operations in the Sangha region of the Republic of Congo.

There is a large gap between SOCFIN's “responsible management” policy and the reality of violence and destruction around its plantations, where, with the complicity of national governments, the company attempts to suppress people’s resistance.

Oil palm plantations managed by the Canadian-based agribusiness company FERONIA Inc have been opposed by local residents ever since they were established

Swedish investor EcoDevelopment registered a claim at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes against the Tanzanian government on September 11, 2017 for revoking a land title amid concerns over the impact on local communities and a wildlife sanctuary.

Experience in Mozambique with agribusiness investments shows Investors need to better educate themselves about the local context in which their funds are deployed.

Karuturi Global Ltd., an Indian flower grower, demanded compensation from the Ethiopian government for a series of failed land deals as it prepares to exit the Horn of Africa nation.

Hong Kong based investors who recently took a 51 percent stake in northern NSW export beef processor, Bindaree Beef have plans to further develop their Western Australian grazing property investments, purchased in April last year.

COFCO Corp, China biggest agricultural products supplier by revenue, plans by 2020 to see 60 percent of its revenue contributed by overseas markets and control up to 50 million metric tons of foreign grain resources.

“Full speed ahead with the ProSavana!” is the position of the Mozambican government, despite the agricultural project raising a chorus of criticism.

Locals in Bewani, West Sepik Province are paid poorly for their labour on oil palm plantations by logging companies.

An obscure company’s quest to rebuild a century-old business could lead to the British stock exchange.

This study highlights the role of European Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in possible land grabs and questionable forestry projects in Africa.

Under fire from watchdogs and consumers of its smartphones, Samsung said it would not pursue a joint venture with Korindo amid an NGO campaign highlighting Korindo’s rainforest destruction for palm oil in Indonesia’s Tanah Papua region.

In June, Environmental Rights Action/FOE Nigeria and representatives of the Owan and Okomu communities delivered a letter to the Governor of Edo State urging him to uphold a revocation Order on 13,750 ha of land expropriated by Okomu Plc.

Le gouvernement a décidé de confier ses fermes d'Etat de 200.000 ha aux investisseurs nationaux ou étrangers qui les exploiteront en partenariat avec des Algériens

Alors que l’équivalent d’un département français disparaît tous les cinq ans sous le béton, la demande de terres agricoles a explosé et leurs prix se sont envolés : + 35% en dix ans. Le modèle agricole français de l’exploitation familiale risque-t-il de disparaître ?

Le militant camerounais de défense de l’environnement Nasako Besingi a été interpellé lundi matin à Mundemba, au sud-ouest du Cameroun, en zone anglophone, où est situé le siège de l’ONG Sefe (Struggle to Economize the Future Environment) qu’il a fondée.

Cette pétition contient la demande urgente de mettre fin aux souffrances et aux violences que l’expansion des plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile a pour effet sur les femmes, dans le continent africain et ailleurs.

Selon des témoignages recueillis par le quotidien britannique « The Guardian », les victimes auraient été abattues par un gang de criminels qui souhaitait s’emparer de leurs terres

Dangote et Sefrioui veulent désormais contribuer à réduire le gap de l’offre dans des produits alimentaires essentiels en Afrique.

La Commission de l’investissement de la région de l’Oromia est confrontée au défi de délocaliser 600 paysans de 335 hectares de terres d’un total de 800 hectares louées à la SARL European Food and Cattle