Ghana

Officials of UK-based Rainforest Builder say they will restore 2,000 hectares of degraded forest—double what they planted last year.

Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson says the government will acquire vast tracts of land to establish large-scale plantation farms and restore annual production to one million metric tonnes.

In appena un anno la concessione governativa è stata estesa fino a 10.000 ettari per la coltivazione di mais, soia, grano, riso, pomodoro, destinati al mercato interno e la produzione di banane destinata all'esportazione

The Dangote Sugar Refinery, located in Kwame-Danso in Ghana’s Bono Region, will reportedly bring 25,000 hectares of farmland under irrigation to support industrial-scale sugarcane cultivation.

Le projet comprend un domaine agricole de 25 000 hectares irrigués, déjà sécurisés

Violences sexuelles, accaparements de terres, répression : une nouvelle enquête éclaire les pratiques du groupe agro-industriel, écrit l'ONG Humundi

Bloomberg's Big Take podcast looks at an investigation into allegations of sexual coercion at plantations run by Socfin, a rubber company supplying top tiremakers.

Hubert Fabri and Vincent Bolloré own plantations accused of land appropriation and labor abuses. Their company says it has taken steps to improve matters, but a trip to West Africa shows sexual coercion claims remain widespread.

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.

The Ghana Green Guard USD$25 billion climate futures initiative is a public-private collaborative partnership that will generate over 305 million carbon credits across 12 million hectares with projects based on reforestation, regenerative agriculture and other activities.

The Asean African Consortium (AAC), a subsidiary of the Jospong Group of Companies, has acquired 200,000 acres of land across the country in a revolutionary move to boost rice production.

"Les conflits fonciers et sociaux dans les plantations de palmiers à huile et d’hévéas de SIAT perdurent depuis trop longtemps et doivent être résolus."