Five men were arrested and beaten on accusations of stealing palm from GVL plantation, but they deny any wrongdoing.
- FrontPageAfrica
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09 Mar 2023
Zambia has allocated 20,000 hectares of land to large-scale farmers in Kenya to start growing maize which will be exported in the country.
The report details corporate land investments in the Mississippi Delta region, and ways that the growth of speculative farmland ownership exacerbates barriers that farmers face accessing and maintaining land in the region.
Tacama Gold, a company owned by Guyanase and Brazilian businessmen, requested 85,000 acres of land but was given 27,000, so that the venture could be assessed before additional land was given.
- Stabroek News
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05 Mar 2023
Japan’s MYFARM Inc will inject RM210 million into PLS Plantations Bhd’s durian plantation in Pahang, as the company looks to expand from 1,000ha to 10,000ha over the next five years.
Investigation reveals how SIAT Nigeria Limited is grabbing host communities' lands and paying them three times less then what local farmers typically pay to neighbouring villages to rent small plots of land for a season.
- Sahara Reporters
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03 Mar 2023
Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry says a total of 153,659 land agreements, covering 344,061 ha, have been signed since the land market was launched, including nearly 100,000 ha over the past year.
As land becomes more expensive in the US, wealth becomes a deciding factor in who gets cut out versus who has the opportunities and the means to procure land.
The directive outlines how EU institutions can implement fair, democratic and sustainable land policies to combat the economic, ecological and climate crises and guarantee food sovereignty.
Fayus Nigeria Limited has commenced the development of a 3,000-hectare plantation in Ugbeturu Community, Owan West Local Council in Edo State, Nigeria
WSIB has allocated a total of $400 million into a separate account with UBS Farmland Investors and a Homestead Capital USA Farmland Fund IV.
We should be concerned about the financialized logic promoted by investors and mega-farmers, which seeks to extract monetary value from every square inch of farmland.
- The Conversation
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28 February 2023