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06 Mar 2025
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Buvuma: more community land rights defenders are getting targeted, facing judicial harassment, and others are jailed on trumped charges Witness Radio | 06 Mar 2025
In Buvuma District, Uganda, the push for the palm oil project expansion has emboldened land spectators and oil palm brokers to seize more land from neighboring communities. Those who resist often face harsh consequences.
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Kuy indigenous demand resolution over land dispute in Preah Vihear CamboJa News | 04 Mar 2025
Indigenous community members in Preah Vihear province sought intervention for their communal land, which has been allegedly cleared by a company, Santana Agro Product Co Ltd., said to belong to a senior provincial official — a claim that has been denied by another official on the basis that it involves individual developers instead.
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Foreign investors snap up Rawlinna sheep station The Australian | 04 Mar 2025
The famed Consolidated Pastoral Company, now owned by English financier Guy Hands, has bought Australia’s biggest sheep station Rawlinna after it was put on the block when tycoon Andrew Forrest last year dumped plans to buy it for a renewable energy project.
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Private entities to gain access to state-owned degraded forests for afforestation Down to Earth | 04 Mar 2025
Private entities may soon be granted access to 60-year concessions of up to 10,000 ha of degraded forests in Madhya Pradesh for carbon credit tree planting projects
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A journey to Boteka: Where only oil palms enjoy the right to land in DRC’s Northwest InfoNile | 03 Mar 2025
Already in conflict with local communities over land grabbing, Plantation et Huilerie du Congo (PHC) has just acquired new concessions to expand its palm oil plantations in Boteka. This deprived local communities of nearly 2,500 hectares of arable land.
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Blueberry farming expands in Laos with new investment FreshPlaza | 03 Mar 2025
Australia-based Costa Group has launched a new blueberry farming project on the Bolaven Plateau in Laos, starting with 17 hectares of crops at Paksong.
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Nigeria takes a leap towards food security with the “IRRIGATE NIGERIA” Project launched by NASENI VMT | 02 Mar 2025
The project, funded by the government's Renewed Hope Infrastructure Development Fund, will initially support Tiamin Rice in cultivating approximately 30,000 hectares of land in Gamawa.
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Warakirri targets $500m-plus for new dairy farmland fund The Weekly Times | 28 Feb 2025
Australian agricultural asset manager Warakirri has announced it is targeting a $500m-plus expansion into the dairy farming sector via a new trans-Tasman investment fund.
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Chinese firm accused of Chachoengsao land grab Bangkok Post | 27 Feb 2025
Thailand's Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee is intensifying its investigation into a Chinese business illegally clearing over 600 rai of national forest land in Chachoengsao's Tha Takiab district to cultivate durian.
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La concession s’étale sur 36 000 hectares : L’italien BF décroche un acte de concession de 40 ans à Timimoun El Watan | 04 mar 2025
Du nouveau pour le mégaprojet de la société italienne Bonifiche Ferraresi (BF) en Algérie. L’entreprise a obtenu ce jeudi le contrat de concession de 36 000 hectares
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Sénégal: Ndingler, le test foncier de Diomaye SenePlus | 01 mar 2025
Quatre ans après l'éclatement médiatique du conflit entre villageois et l'industriel Babacar Ngom, la situation reste figée. Les terres contestées sont en jachère, inaccessibles aux agriculteurs depuis un arrêté préfectoral pris après des affrontements.
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Cuba contempla por primera vez otorgar por ley tierras en usufructo a extranjeros EFE | 04 mar 2025
El Gobierno cubano contempla otorgar tierras en usufructo a empresas y personas físicas extranjeras con residencia permanente en la isla, en una nueva medida para tratar de incrementar la producción agrícola, que atraviesa una profunda crisis, según EFE
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Algeria: Bf conclude iter per progetto agricolo da 420 milioni di dollari Nova | 27 Feb 2025
L’Algeria ha annunciato il perfezionamento dell’accordo con il gruppo italiano Bf Spa per una concessione quarantennale, rinnovabile, finalizzata alla realizzazione di un progetto agricolo integrato del valore di 420 milioni di dollari.
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