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Investigation shows Socfin/Bolloré plantations harm communities in Africa and Asia

- Weekly Times
NSW cropping farms sold for $32m-plus to foreign buyer
- Cavista
Agbeyewa Farms, NSCDC Ekiti State Command strengthen ties for enhanced security
- NAN
NSDC, Chinese firm sign $1bn sugar production deal in Nigeria
- ANSA
Italy supports sustainable agriculture projects in Ghana
- Agence Ecofin
Après le Congo, l’italien BF fait son entrée dans le secteur agricole au Sénégal
- La Voix du Koat
Crise sociale à la Socapalm : appelé au banc des accusés, le chef du village Apouh rectifie la copie du préfet
- LVC
Pakistan: Peasant unions to mobilize on April 13 against corporate farming, land grabs, and for fair crop prices
- Camer Press Agency
Position officielle de la Socapalm sur le conflit foncier à Apouh : dialogue, responsabilité sociale et engagement durable
- Camer Press Agency
Cameroun : le chef du village Apouh dénonce l’accaparement des terres par la Socapalm et l’inaction de l’État
- Times of Central Asia
Kyrgyzstan to plant 10 million trees in Issyk-Kul via carbon credit initiative
- Vientiane Times
Concessions granted for large-scale durian farming in Laos
- Witness Radio
Uganda: Palm oil project investor in land grab
- New Dawn
Liberia: Gov’t prosecutes Mary Boimah, others, in 2024 SRC protest
- National Observer
World's largest deforestation project destroys forests for bioethanol fuel, sugar and rice in Indonesia
- Heritage Times
‘Carbon grabs’ are the new ‘land grabs’ in Africa, says Bank chief
- AFR
Australia: Chris Corrigan leads investors in $500m farm sale to Canadian fund
- The Columbian
‘I bought their dream’: How a US company’s huge land deal in Senegal went bust
- Mongabay
Palm oil company uses armed forces, tear gas against protesting villagers in Cameroon
- Agence Ecofin
Congo : l’Italien BF s’engage dans un projet agricole à Dolisie
- La Voix du Koat
Crise foncière à la Socapalm d’Apouh : le Préfet de la Sanaga-Maritime rétablit les faits
- Coalition for Human Rights in Development
Joint statement: Urgent call on the IFC and the EBRD for remedy and accountability at Indorama Agro, Uzbekistan
- ICIJ
As IFC delayed a damning report on a Liberian rubber plantation, the owner sold the business
- Radio Nigeria
Farmers protest alleged land grab for Rice Project in Nasarawa
Interview de M. Etamane, riverain de la Socapalm Edéa
Open letter of civil society organisations to the Cameroonian authorities

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NSW cropping farms sold for $32m-plus to foreign buyer
- Weekly Times
- 14 April 2025
The investment arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has bought a fourth major Aussie cropping aggregation.
Agbeyewa Farms, NSCDC Ekiti State Command strengthen ties for enhanced security
- Cavista
- 14 April 2025
The Ekiti State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) has pledged to enhance its collaboration with Cavista Holdings and Agbeyewa Farms to fulfill its core mandate of securing critical national assets and infrastructure, including farmland security through the Agro Rangers Squad.
NSDC, Chinese firm sign $1bn sugar production deal in Nigeria
- NAN
- 13 April 2025
The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) and Chinese conglomerate, SINOMACH have agreed to jointly develop a large-scale sugarcane cultivation and processing project in Nigeria.
Italy supports sustainable agriculture projects in Ghana
- ANSA
- 13 April 2025
A Memorandum of Understanding on the implementation of sustainable and modern agriculture projects in Ghana was signed at the Residence of the Italian Ambassador in Accra, by the Minister of Food and Agriculture of the Republic of Ghana, Eric Opoku, the Managing Director of BF International Best Fields Best Food Limited, Federico Vecchioni, and the President of BF Ghana Ltd, Georges Mikhael.
Après le Congo, l’italien BF fait son entrée dans le secteur agricole au Sénégal
- Agence Ecofin
- 11 April 2025
Au Sénégal, le groupe agro-industriel italien Bonifiche Ferraresi, a signé un protocole d’accord avec le maire de la commune de Kaour pour la mise en œuvre d’un projet agroindustriel sur 10 000 hectares
Crise sociale à la Socapalm : appelé au banc des accusés, le chef du village Apouh rectifie la copie du préfet
- La Voix du Koat
- 11 April 2025
Droit de réponse à la suite du point presse du Préfet de la Sanaga Maritime
Pakistan: Peasant unions to mobilize on April 13 against corporate farming, land grabs, and for fair crop prices
- LVC
- 11 April 2025
Peasant unions, including the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC), have announced a nationwide protest on April 13 to oppose the so-called Green Pakistan Initiative, which they claim is a front to open up the country’s agriculture sector to corporate farming.
Position officielle de la Socapalm sur le conflit foncier à Apouh : dialogue, responsabilité sociale et engagement durable
- Camer Press Agency
- 10 April 2025
Selon une déclaration officielle transmise à Camer Press Agency, l’entreprise se dit « attachée à un dialogue constructif avec les communautés riveraines et les autorités locales, dans le respect du cadre légal et des droits de chacun »