PLS LESB will partner with Japan's Millennium Agriculture Technology and MyFarm Inc, Japan to develop up to 1,000 hectares of durian plantations in Pahang, Malaysia.
- New Straits Times
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16 January 2023
Au Tchad, des habitants de la province du Logone Occidental dénoncent ce qu’ils considèrent comme accaparement des terres.
- VoA Afrique
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16 January 2023
Cambodian government awarded a new Economic Land Concession (ELC) in March 2022 for the first time in nearly a decade despite an existing moratorium on ELCs. The new ELC site comprises more than 5,000 hectares of forest land in Stung Treng province.
- CamboJa News
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16 January 2023
Nigeria's Ekiti State government says 263 farming families were compensated for lands that were taken to establish a joint venture dairy farm with the South Africa-based dairy company Promisador.
L’Etat tchadien s’accapare de 3500 hectares de terres agricoles pour une ZES. Des jeunes et moins jeunes résistent.
- Safi News Tchad
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15 January 2023
Dans une déclaration commune, les représentants du Réseau des acteurs du changement des deux Logones, au Tchad, demandent la suspension des travaux de bornage pour une Zone économique spéciale et la réalisation des études d’impact environnemental et social avant la mise en œuvre de ce projet.
Entretien avec Bâ Adama Moussa, le maire de Boghé, sur le projet « Boghé ville Agro-écologique » et le rôle de African Agriculture Inc
- Financial Afrik
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14 January 2023
Grassley says young and beginning farmers are increasingly competing with institutional investors, such as pension funds and endowments, who are diversifying their financial portfolios with prime farmland.
- Chuck Grassley
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13 January 2023
The case of a community land rights defender in Mubende district forced to buy food for a family of 13 people for the last five years.
- Witness Radio
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13 January 2023
RIAO-RDC exige la libération des plusieurs autochtones, habitants des villages dans le groupement Mokoso, territoire d'Ingende pour la plantation de Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC).
The Guyanese president asked India to send a team of experts to set up millets farm in Guyana and promised all help in production and promotion of millets in the Caribbean and Latin American countries
- Statesman
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12 January 2023
Wisconsin Farmers Union says that it's very difficult to find out who owns the investment firms that have been acquiring farmland in the state.
A Ugandan villager is in a three-way legal battle for ownership of land with a sugar company that wants to expand its plantations and the National Forestry Authority, which says it is part of a forest reserve.
Le gouvernement français s'inquiète d'un soi disant « virage radical des activistes écologistes » qui défendent les terres de l’industrie du béton ou du lobby agro-industriel. Cette tribune collective, signée par plus de 3000 personnes, y répond.
- Les soulèvements de la terre
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09 January 2023
The Trade Secretary of the Philippines invites Chinese investors to consider the Philippines as "an investment destination for plantations and processing facilities"
Hacienda tiene sobre la mesa una propuesta para que las socimis puedan adquirir fincas agrícolas, más allá de los activos inmobiliarios de naturaleza urbana en los que actualmente pueden invertir.
Le contrat tripartite signé entre le gouvernement de Mauritanie, les coopératives agricoles des communautés de Boghé (regroupant plusieurs milliers de personnes) et la société African Agriculture, entreprise américaine, porte sur 2000 hectares en vue de la production de l’aliment de bétail.
Une plateforme citoyenne tchadienne dénonce, une fois de plus, les menaces d’expropriation des populations par Olam/Arise
- Tchad Infos
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04 January 2023
Le Groupement d’intérêt économique-Dental Yaakaare Ndema e Ngaynaakaoghé, de Boghé, a discuté du Protocole d’accord dénommé « Développement d’un projet d’agriculture commerciale » signé le 16 décembre 2022 entre le GIE DYNN, African Agriculture Inc et le gouvernement de la Mauritanie.
Minister said Ghana has 40,000 hectares of land readily available to support large scale rice production and encouraged delegates from the Thai company Jospong Group to take advantage of it.
- Business Ghana
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03 January 2023
La ruée vers le foncier africain a suscité une attention particulière ces dernières années. Mais ce phénomène est rarement abordé sous l’angle du marché du travail et de la main-d’œuvre. Pour Rama Salla Dieng, il est temps d’historiciser l’accaparement des terres afin de mieux y résister.
- Arique XXI
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02 January 2023
The Agriculture Minister of the German state of Brandenburg wants to enact a new law to prevent investors from outside the industry from buying up a large part of the agricultural land.
- Indo & NY
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01 January 2023
Arizona’s attorney general has called for an investigation into a 2015 deal between the Saudi agribusiness company Fondomonte and the Arizona State Land Department for desert farmland west of Phoenix at one-sixth its market value.
- HighCountryNews
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01 January 2023
Angola's Minister of Agriculture presented projects for large-scale agriculture to the UAE's Al Dahra Group and Elite Agro, while in the UAE on a six day visit.
- Africa Press
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30 December 2022
The wait is over the implementation of mega farms following the releasing of K500 million to facilitate the rollout of the farms.
- Malawi Exclusive
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20 December 2022
African Agriculture has agreed to a public-private partnership with the Government of Mauritania and the communities of Boghé on the Senegal River Valley for a phased commercial farming buildout up to $500mm of investment.
- PR Newswire
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19 December 2022
Mediapart dévoile des documents internes au gouvernement congolais et des témoignages prouvant que TotalEnergies s’est approprié des terres d’agriculteurs sans leur libre consentement
- Mediapart
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12 December 2022
Citing concerns about the environment, food security, and the fate of family farmers, Missouri legislators have filed several bills that would restrict foreign ownership of agricultural land.
- Missouri Independent
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12 December 2022
Local farmers say they can no longer afford to send children to school after the oil giant’s 40,000 hectare tree plantation barred them from their fields
- Unearthed
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12 December 2022
Global agricultural investor Nuveen Natural Capital has joined a growing pool of institutional fund managers targeting Australia’s burgeoning macadamia sector, after buying one of the country’s largest orchards