Al Dahra Group is interested in 180,000 acres. Selu Ltd, another private party has eyes on 20,000. Currently, NIA has 10,000 acres under irrigation with plans to add another 10,000 in the medium term.

Longstanding labor unrest over low wages, union suppression, and unsafe work conditions at Cameroon’s largest sugar company, owned by a French agro-giant, erupted into a strike on January 26 over delayed payments.

Norway pledges US$15mn towards the implementation of the Flagship 7 (Agricultural Masters Plan), which focuses on creating an enabling environment for replicating the SAGCOT model in three additional Agricultural Growth Corridors, namely Mtwara, Central and Northern Corridors.

More than a year late, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation has finally submitted its response to an investigation that found evidence of grave human rights violations at the Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) that it helps fund in Liberia.

The 25-year deal would enable Chestnut Carbon to plant trees on 60,000 acres of land across Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas

As millions in public money flows towards the planting of trees, some are also raising concerns about the environmental credentials of many schemes.

The world's leading private equity fund has just invested in Hasfarm Holdings, a flower export giant in Da Lat, Vietnam, marking a new step in the investment trend in the agricultural and food technology sector in Vietnam.

La combinación de concesión de tierras públicas gratuitas, un sistema de explotación laboral y generosos créditos fiscales había creado una economía rural extraordinariamente favorable para las grandes empresas nacionales y transnacionles, que llevan a la expansón de megagranjas, Palma y soya, cómo Agropalma, BBF, el grupo Cosan, Amaggi hasta las grandes traders.

A new report on land grabbing exposes the vulnerability of farmers and citizens to arbitrary abuse of the law when developers and the state lay claim to their farms and homes for commercial gain.

Par un nouveau projet de loi, le gouvernement du Québec vise à protéger les terres agricoles face aux pressions découlant de l’urbanisation du territoire et la spéculation foncière domestique.

L’Afrique est-elle à la veille d’un nouveau cycle d’accaparement des terres, non pas pour sécuriser les approvisionnements alimentaires de pays tiers, comme à la fin des années 2000, mais pour produire les crédits-carbone destinés à compenser les émissions des gros pays pollueurs ou celles des entreprises ayant pris pour engagement d’atteindre la neutralité carbone d’ici à 2050 ?

Dall'Emilia-Romagna fino in Madagascar per i crediti di carbonio. Storia del progetto da 6.700 ettari di Tozzi Green, accusata dalla comunità di aver rubato la terra e distrutto l'economia locale

After years investing in farms overseas, the Saudi government is now stepping up efforts to attract foreign investors to its domestic agriculture sector

Le mécontentement de ces riverains venus des villages Apouh à Ngong, Dehane, Ongue et Koukoue a clairement été exprimé au cours d’une conférence de presse organisée le 13 novembre 2024, par et le Réseau des Acteurs du Développement Durable en collaboration avec Green Peace Africa.

Desde 2016, la Red de Actores del Desarrollo Sostenible (RADD) apoya a las comunidades de las aldeas Apouh en Ngog, Dehane, Ongue y Koukohe, en su lucha por el reconocimiento de sus derechos humanos pisoteados por la multinacional que ocupa su patrimonio territorial.

In addition to the greenfield port north of Port Sudan, the project would have included a 400,000-acre agricultural development in the Nile region, hundreds of miles of new roadways, a large free trade zone

A group of non-profits say the German companies may be in breach of national due diligence law, due to a failure to ‘interrogate and act on’ risks in their soya supply chain.

Institutional investors are driving movement in Australia's poultry farm property market, underscoring sustained demand for agricultural assets that offer steady, passive income.

Corte de Delaware firma acuerdo poniendo fin a una demanda colectiva de las comunidades campesinas del Valle del Aguán en Honduras, reconociendo la responsabilidad de la Corporación Dinan y de la Corporación Financiera Internacional (CFI, por violencia armada -que resultó en al menos 40 asesinatos - para realizar el historico acaparamiento para expandir sus operaciones de aceite de palma.

One Chinese company that has joined Laos' durian rush is Jiarun, an infrastructure builder that has vowed to establish the world's largest durian plantation in Attapeu, a remote province in southern Laos, on 5,000 ha it has secured on a 50-year lease from the Laotian government.

Une cartographie des abus fonciers décriés par les communautés des villages Apouh à Ngog, Dehane, Ongue et Koukohe a été rendue publique lors d'une rencontre à Yaoundé.

Les contestations ont de nouveau repris ce matin sur les plantations querellées de la Société camerounaise de palmeraies (Socapalm) d’Édéa situées au village Apouh, au Cameroun

Prosegur company, linked to community violence cases at Agropalma's oil palm plantations, lost over US$ 6 million from the Norwegian Global Fund

Communities in Côte d'Ivoire are demanding compensation for the damage caused by the activities of the Belgian company SIAT, which specialises in the production of rubber and palm oil.

Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Corporation announced agreement for a business combination with the iconic Australian Food & Agriculture Company Limited, one of the largest diversified agricultural portfolios in New South Wales

The CSSF has put an end to a year-long dispute between small shareholders and Socfin's main shareholders, the Fabri family and French billionaire Vincent Bolloré: the 689,337 shares they not control between them will be bought back at €32.50 per share. This will take Socfin off the stock market at a time when it is the target of fierce criticism from a major Norwegian pension fund. It was also the end of an era for the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

La CSSF a mis fin à un an de «différends» entre de petits actionnaires et les principaux actionnaires de la Socfin, les Fabri et le milliardaire français Vincent Bolloré: les 689.337 actions qui leur manquent seront rachetées à 32,5 euros l’action. De quoi retirer la Socfin de la cotation au moment où elle est la cible de critiques virulentes du fonds de pension norvégien. La fin d’une époque, aussi, pour la Bourse de Luxembourg.

New York-based hedge fund Water Asset Management LLC spent $100 million to buy farmland and water rights in Western Arizona, stirring concerns about a future “water grab” from that rural area and of corporate control over a major groundwater source.

An investment arm of the largest private company in the U.S. — Koch, Inc — is investing in an agricultural business venture that will generate carbon credits while pulling local natural resources from almost 2.9 million hectares of land in West Africa.

Buyers from the UAE have expressed interest in investing in the local agriculture sector, taking advantage of favourable climate, vast tracts of fertile land and the availability of numerous water bodies.