India

The Haryana state government, India has signed MoU for 100,000 acres of farm land in Tanzania. The MoU said to enable Indian farmers and entrepreneurs to pursue agricultural ventures in the East African country.

The negative impacts of oil palm plantations promoted by India's national policy to increase national oil palm production are already being felt in three villages in the state of Manipur, where the area are targeted for the plantation. The turmoil it is creating at the plantation villages indicates a departure from the indigenous ways of land governance and relations to a system designed to cater to a corporate economic system.

Le député non-inscrit Tahirou Sarr a transmis au président de l’Assemblée nationale une proposition de loi visant à protéger le foncier national et à instaurer une véritable souveraineté foncière au Sénégal. Cette initiative intervient dans un contexte de multiplication des acquisitions foncières par des entités étrangères.

Qu’elles soient Danone (France), Senegindia (Inde), Ovidi Tender (Roumanie), China Agricultural Development (Chine), India Agri Ventures (Inde), Senegal Agricorp (États‐ Unis) ou Franck Timis (Roumanie), ces entreprises étrangères ont été largement servies. Une proposition de loi de Tahirou Sarr exige entre autres la révocation de ces titres fonciers en titres révocables et précaires ouvrant la voie à une renationalisation.

A Dubai-based consumer electronics manufacturer, Maser Group, is making a major strategic pivot into agriculture and artificial intelligence infrastructure across Africa, committing $1.6 billion to farmland development and data centres in Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya over the next two years.

Protestors say the local BJP-led government is preparing to hand 3,000 ha of tribal lands over to agribusiness companies Ramdev and Godrej for palm oil cultivation.

India's National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development and Rabo Bank are pursuing a project in Karnataka to plant trees on mango plantations as a way to generate carbon credits.

SENEGINDIA a transféré son activité agricole à la société SWAMI AGRI.

The project, spanning 20,000 hectares in Madhya Pradesh State, will see up to 11.6 million mixed native trees planted across farmer and community land.

Private entities may soon be granted access to 60-year concessions of up to 10,000 ha of degraded forests in Madhya Pradesh for carbon credit tree planting projects

A UAE aquaculture company linked to the ruling Al-Maktoum family of Dubai has agreed to develop an aquaculture farm and research centre in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh at an initial cost of $461 million.

The Madhya Pradesh government plans to hand over between 10 and 1,000 hectares of forest land to private agencies for 60 years in which time they can plant species of their choice, trade in forest produce, and rate the forest for carbon sequestration to earn carbon credits.