Nigeria's Enugu State has signed a deal for a joint venture with Pragmatic Palms Limited that will give the newly formed company with no previous agricultural experience control over a 6,700 ha oil palm plantation concession.
On the opening day of the World Bank's 2024 Land Conference, small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, workers, grassroots communities, and civil society issue statement denouncing the World Bank for land grabbing and ecosystem destruction.
- International statement
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12 May 2024
En 2022, la République du Congo a concédé plus de 22 000 hectares de terres agricoles au Rwanda sur 25 ans. Cet accord commence à être de plus en plus critiqué par des Congolais.
- Digital Congo
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11 May 2024
Nigeria's Ekiti State Government has signed an MOU with Nigerian investment company – Cavista Holdings (owners of Agbeyewa Farms Limited) to establish a state-of-the-art cassava farm spanning 100,000 hectares within the State.
- Nigeria Current
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10 May 2024
La organización Iniciativa Cristiana Romero evaluó el comportamiento de dos empresas de palma aceitera en Guatemala y una en Honduras que exportan hacia Alemania. Los resultados indican contaminación del agua en los ríos, degradación ambiental, adquisición irregular de tierras y violación de derechos laborales.
Suite aux soupçons de malversations financières, le bras de fer s’intensifie entre l’État congolais et l’actionnaire SKKM2 au sein de PHC S.A. (anciennement Unilever)
En abril del año 1994, las tierras asignadas para la cooperativa El Chile fueron despojadas mediante una venta ilegal. Esta transacción fue realizada por personas sin representación legítima de los campesinos, para traspasar el territorio a manos de la Empresa Agropecuaria Camaro, quien a su vez cedió los títulos a Exportadora del Atlántico, perteneciente a la hondureña Corporación Dinant.
- Radio Zapatista
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08 May 2024
The Government approved Decree 15 of 2024 signed by President Joko Widodo on April 19 to form a task force for the acceleration of sugar and bioethanol self-sufficiency stationed in Merauke district, South Papua province.
Conclusion du dialogue national inclusif qui s’est tenu du 2 au 29 avril 2024, le « démentellement » d’Olam, Arise et d’autres sociétés interrogent quelque peu.
- Gabon Media Time
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05 May 2024
Ses opposants craignaient un risque de "financiarisation" de l'agriculture française.
Tree planting in Africa is said to help save the climate and fight poverty, but silently, it is resulting in hunger and poverty. Farmers in Uganda have had enough. They're cutting down climate trees - and turning them into coal.
How did Brazil become a laboratory for agroinvestment? Through an alliance between big finance and agribusiness. Now, ordinary people are being pulled into financing land- and watergrabbers themselves.
Como o Brasil está se convertendo em um laboratório de agroinvestimentos? Aliança entre capital financeiro e propriedades rurais pode gerar maiorias de sem-terra, sem-teto, e sem água, que podem financiar seus próprios expropriadores.
Dans un rapport publié jeudi, l’ONG EPER critique un projet d’accaparement de terres en Sierra Leone. Il aurait été cautionné par une entreprise genevoise et se ferait au détriment des populations locales
An investigation into a large-scale tree plantation project by Swiss Church Aid HEKS/EPER and four Sierra Leone NGOs reveals that numerous farming families who own the land have apparently not agreed to the project in the manner prescribed by law.