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Tanzania's government told parliament it is negotiating a takeover of over 2,000 idle hectares of Mo Dewji's MeTL tea estates in Mbeya to restart production and protect farmers, despite MeTL's US$24mn loan from the AfDB.

Les responsables de l’Etat malgache sont appellés à résoudre rapidement et de manière juste vis-à-vis des droits des 4.000 paysans, les problèmes fonciers provoqués par les décisions du Comité d’Attribution des Terres du projet Bas-Mangoky financé par la Banque Africaine de Développement, qui concernent 5.000 ha

Financial institutions and private investors from the global North are channelling hundreds of millions of dollars into the expansion of industrial tree plantations across Africa.

On the sidelines of an AfDB investment forum in Morocco, Nigeria's Zamfara State signed an MOU with Nigeria's Ministry of Finance under which it will provide arable land, infrastructure and policy incentives while the Ministry mobilises investors.

The project with MeTL will rehabilitate ageing tea estates, convert more than 1,000 hectares into organic plantations and upgrade processing factories to double production capacity. It will also establish at least 15,000 hectares of sisal plantations and a new 200-hectare macadamia plantation.

Civil society organizations have released a report challenging the dominant narrative advanced by the Africa Development Bank that Africa holds vast expanses of “unused” or “underutilized” land available for large-scale industrial agriculture and other land-based investments.

As African leaders, policymakers and researchers gather for the Sixth Conference on Land Policy in Africa (CLPA), civil society groups are issuing a powerful challenge to the dominant development model that treats African land as “vacant,” “underused,” and open for exploitation.

Explaining the idea behind the construction of agribusiness hubs, Governor Makinde explained that the hubs are being designed as anchors of the state’s agribusiness ecosystem, which would bring producers closer to processors and link farms to markets.

Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa yesterday launched the Building Better Tomorrow (BBT) Programme’s Project I, which focuses on large-scale farming, with a funding boost of 129.71 million US dollars from the African Development Bank.

La Repubblica Democratica del Congo (RDC) sta aumentando la coltivazione di olio di palma, con l'idea di diventare un Paese esportatore e di affacciarsi alla produzione di biocombustibili, rischiando però di mettere a repentaglio la sopravvivenza di intere comunità e di creare nuovi conflitti, in un Paese già ai primi posti delle classifiche mondiali per fame e insicurezza alimentare.

The head of the African Development Bank says big foreign companies are not paying Africa fairly for its role in fighting climate change. He calls this unfair practice “carbon grabs.”

L’Afrique est-elle à la veille d’un nouveau cycle d’accaparement des terres, non pas pour sécuriser les approvisionnements alimentaires de pays tiers, comme à la fin des années 2000, mais pour produire les crédits-carbone destinés à compenser les émissions des gros pays pollueurs ou celles des entreprises ayant pris pour engagement d’atteindre la neutralité carbone d’ici à 2050 ?