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Lao farmers driven from their land by foreign concessions, rising costs
- RFA
- 07 July 2021
Flooded farms, land grabs, and production costs are driving Lao villagers from their land to seek work in the cities.
When Noam Léandri from Angers was investigating land grabbing in Cambodia
- Ouest France
- 05 July 2021
The court of Nanterre has just dismissed 80 Bunong farmers who accused the French group of illegally appropriating their land in Cambodia. Ten years ago, Noam Léandri from Angers was commissioned by the International Federation for Human Rights to produce a report on the subject. He looks back.
Schweppes to ramp up production with US$35m investment
- The Herald
- 05 July 2021
Schweppes Zimbabwe Limited has undertaken to invest US$35 million in the next 10 years into a 2 700 hectare citrus plantation as it seeks to increase production and valued addition at its Beitbridge Juice Processing Plant.
Cambodia. Standing up to Bolloré, the Bunong ethnic group mourns its forest
- Ouest France
- 04 July 2021
The Cambodian farmers who sued the Breton businessman for land grabbing were dismissed by the court of Nanterre.
Farmers protest seizure of farmlands by Savannah Sugar Company in Adamawa
- Channels TV
- 03 July 2021
Farmers gathered to protest the seizure of their lands by a sugar company owned by Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest person.
Farmers protest seizure of farmlands by Savannah Sugar Company in Adamawa
- Channels TV
- 03 July 2021
Farmers in Adamawa State Nigeria have staged a protest against the seizure of their lands by a sugar cane company owned by the Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest person.
Court dismisses Cambodian farmers accusing Bolloré group of land grabbing
- France24
- 02 July 2021
Eighty Cambodian farmers of the Bunong ethnic group were dismissed on Friday by the judicial court of Nanterre. They believed that they had been robbed of their ancestral forest by the Bolloré group, who replaced it with rubber plantations. The farmers' lawyer has appealed against this judgment.
Socfin’s RSPO certification challenged by affected communities in Cameroon
- CED
- 01 July 2021
Local communities hold a press conference today to protest against the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil certificate awarded to Socfin’s subsidiary company SAFACAM in Cameroon on 30 December 2020
As lockdown bites, multinationals resort to the use of herds hired from pastoralists to evict locals off their land
- Witness Radio
- 30 June 2021
As natives continue to resist illegal evictions, multinational companies opt to hire livestock as a new tactic to forcefully evict smallholder farmers from their land.
What are the effects of large-scale land acquisitions in Africa on selected economic and social indicators?
- Misereor
- 30 June 2021
New report for Misereor reviewed scientific literature on the microeconomic and social effects of large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sierra Tropical limited invests in pineapple plantation
- Politico Online
- 30 June 2021
The company owned by Itochu Corp of Japan is currently cultivating 300 out of 4,335 hectares leased under agreements with landowners in Lugbu Chiefdom, Sierra Leone
Japfa to acquire two dairy farms for $165.7 million to strengthen foothold in China
- Straits Times
- 30 June 2021
Singapore-based Japfa, through its 75 per cent-owned subsidiary AustAsia Investment Holdings, has agreed to buy two dairy farms in Shandong, China.