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The Minister for Food and Agriculture disclosed that the government had completed advanced satellite-based mapping of rice-suitable lands across the country to provide investors with reliable, location-specific data to support investment decisions and agricultural expansion.

Investors expected to attend the Global AgInvesting event include APG Asset Management, one of Europe’s largest pension investors, Canada’s Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank.

The process of land consolidation in Ukraine stands to accelerate as the government leans into agribusiness as a vehicle for rebuilding the country, arguing that only large companies have the capital needed to repair an agricultural sector devastated by war.

Un piano d’azione per il risarcimento delle comunità i cui diritti terrieri e umani sono stati violati dai gestori della piantagione di gomma Salala in Liberia sembra essere bloccato.

Delta State Governor charges the Steering Committee of the World Bank-funded Framework for Responsible Investment in Land-Intensive Agriculture to “promote transparency in land acquisition and resettlement for large-scale agribusiness investment."

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.

The World Bank's IFC is set to expand its agriculture-focused investing with two proposed commitments targeting early-stage agri-tech in Africa and a timber and nature-based carbon removal fund managed by Patria Investments in Brazil.

Philippine's President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. made a special plea to foreign investors in his fourth State of the Nation Address: Invest in the country’s agriculture sector. Meanwhile, the World Bank criticises Philippine policy that aims to prevent the concentration of rural land ownership.

In 2019, 22 communities in Liberia filed a complaint with the World Bank Group’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, accusing the International Finance Corporation of fueling abuse and environmental destruction through a loan to the Salala Rubber Corporation to expand its rubber plantations—with devastating consequences.

"Whereas the Bank’s push for large-scale agribusiness is global, the African continent is its central target"

The World Bank Group’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman found that the IFC failed to follow its own safeguards, enabling widespread harm to land rights, community health, cultural heritage and women by the Salala Rubber Corporation.