La Coalition pour des multintionales responsables sort un dossier sur les plaintes d’exploitation sexuelle, de violence, d’expulsion et de pollution autour des plantations de caoutchouc et d’huile de palme du groupe Socfin, dont une grande partie du négoce agricole se fait via la Suisse.
- Coalition pour des multinationales responsables
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30 October 2025
Le nouveau ministre de l’Aménagement du Territoire et des Services fonciers à Madagascar, le général Lylison René de Rolland Urbain, a fait de la restitution des terres à leurs propriétaires légitimes l’une de ses priorités.
- L'Express de Madagascar
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30 October 2025
German human rights activists accuse Berlin-based agricultural company Amatheon Agri of violently forcing Zambian farmers off their land and seizing their livestock.
Nouvelle Blooms is helping investors access 1.8 million acres [728,434 ha] of Kenyan government land for large-scale farming, particularly for maize and soya beans that are critical for poultry feed formulation.
- Citizen Digital
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27 October 2025
"Ce que nous avons constaté, c’est que de nouvelles expulsions de terres ont eu lieu récemment, par exemple en 2021 à Galakpaye et à Ballan, où des personnes ont été dépossédées de leurs terres sans juste et préalable indemnisation. Ce qui est contraire au droit international et aux lois guinéennes."
Uganda is inviting Qatari investors to participate across the value chain—from livestock farming, agro-processing, oil storage, and medicine, to exporting high-value products such as citrus, coffee, vanilla, avocado, grapes, and tea, its ambassador tells Uganda-Qatar Business Forum.
- Gulf Times
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27 October 2025
Nigeria's federal minister of livestock development says plans are underway to convert 123,000 hectares of grazing reserves in Katsina into modern ranches to develop halal meat exports to the Middle East through public-private partnerships
- Katsina State
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27 October 2025
La corporación en cuestión es la Olam Group, con sede en Singapur, que controla 2,36 millones de hectáreas agrícolas propias o de operación directa.
- Juan Vilar
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24 October 2025
The Serbian government bought 11 hectares from UAE's Al Dahra to build a stadium. This is the same land that the government sold to Al Dahra seven years ago during a privatisation process, but it has now been repurchased at a price 13 times higher.
- Serbian Monitor
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24 October 2025
The blank check company registered in the Cayman Islands plans to target businesses within the food production and agribusiness sector, including in land cultivation and aqua culture, in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Chile.
- Renaissance Capital
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24 October 2025
« La Soguipah a tout pris, il n’y a plus où cultiver, donc nous sommes obligés de travailler pour la Soguipah. »
- Amnesty International
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23 October 2025
Around 3.7 million hectares of oil palm plantations have been seized by Indonesian military, with nearly half transferred to nascent state firm Agrinas Palma Nusantara, catapulting it into the world's largest palm oil company by land size. A sweeping military-backed takeover that has sent a chill through the world's biggest palm oil producer and its 16-million-strong workforce.
According to a new 2025 Land Matrix Initiative report, millions of hectares are being acquired for carbon offset projects. In Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo are epicenters, with over a million hectares each already under contract.
- Reconcile
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23 October 2025
Programa Camino Verde Brasil para conversión de 40 millones de ha de pasturas degradadas en monocultivos de granos, cómo soya y maiz, intenta atraer inversión extranjera, especialmente de China, al ofrecer participación accionaria en propiedades brasileñas, lo que pone en riesgo a la soberanía de la tierra, y la concentración de la propiedad.
- Revista Chacra
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21 October 2025
Une enquête menée par une organisation de la société civile révèle des irrégularités dans l’attribution de certaines concessions foncières à la Socapalm mais celle-ci soutient que les reproches reposent sur des interprétations erronées.
- News du Cameroun
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20 October 2025
The National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) has signed an MoU with agribusiness firm Arzikim Noma for the management and financing of the 5,000 hectare Renewed Hope Mega Farm Estate in Ora, Kwara State.
The investment arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints owns farms and orchards in 29 of 50 US states and 10 countries across the Americas, Europe and most recently Australasia.
Ghana's finance minister says large-scale agricultural transformation requires patient capital, and that is why his government is working closely with the World Bank, IFC, and other development partners to mobilise financing and catalyse private sector participation.
The Mayuge hub — which also covers Bugiri and Namayingo districts — marks the first phase of an oil palm cultivation project in Busoga, following years of preparation and feasibility studies.
- SoftPower
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19 October 2025
Guyana's Minister of Agriculture told a private sector delegation from the Brazilian state of Roraima that Region Nine was an ideal area for expanding agricultural investments, with availability of land suitable for mega-farms.
- Stabroek News
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19 October 2025
Une enquête accablante révèle les zones d’ombre autour de près de 1 000 hectares de concessions foncières, plongeant les communautés locales dans un bras de fer avec la puissante filiale de Socfin.
- La Voix du Centre
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18 October 2025
La Socapalm, filiale de groupe Socfin, a publié un communiqué officiel contestant un rapport de Green Development Advocate
- Investir au Cameroun
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16 October 2025
Liberian civil society and international allies are urgently demanding the RSPO maintain its stop-work order on GVL’s expansion to prevent further deforestation, protect communities’ rights, and ensure accountability for the company’s environmental and human rights violations.
Face aux événements survenus dans le pays, la paysannerie malgache unie s'oppose aux baux de location de terre accordés aux étrangers et demande leur arrêt. Elle revendique la priorisation de l’attribution de terre aux paysans malgaches.
Taking over Olam Agri would fit into Saudi Arabia’s food security strategy, which calls for investing in global companies to lock in supply and encourage them to bring production to the kingdom.
- Bloomberg
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14 October 2025
The Saskatchewan Government has made regulatory amendments to ensure Saskatchewan farm land is not owned by foreigners or corporations, and has removed an exemption that allowed the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to own land.
Chilean farmland investor Toesca and its London-based partner Astarte Capital Partners host an inaugural conference, with presentations from Nuveen Capital and Chile's public pension fund AFP.
En 2025 sigue activándose el fenómeno de acumulación de tierras rurales en manos extranjeras en Uruguay, despertando alertas sobre soberanía, equilibrio productivo y el futuro de los pequeños productores.
- Diario La R
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13 October 2025
DMCI President Isidro Consunji said the family's agriculture business was developing a 12,000-hectare African palm oil plantation in Negros Occidental, as well as a partnership with Japan's Marubeni and UP Los Baños to plant 1.5 million trees across 15,000 hectares for carbon credits.
- Manila Times
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13 October 2025
Legal analysis note by Green Development Advocates presents the blatant illegalities underlying the land issue at the SOCAPALM-Edéa plantation in Cameroon