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Russian firm to build $1.4-bln pork processing complex in Vietnam
- VN Express
- 27 January 2021
AVG Capital Partners will build a pig farm on 1,000 hectares of land in the Nghi Son Economic Zone to raise five million hogs a year.
Sudan wants to ‘turn the desert green’ in agricultural modernisation push
- FT
- 25 January 2021
DAL’s $225m greenfield project in Abu Hamad — a joint venture with the Royal Group of Abu Dhabi and about 10km from the banks of the Nile — is watered by 18km of canals drawing water from the world’s longest river.
Imbroglio around 20,000 ha in northern Senegal
- GRAIN
- 25 January 2021
Here is a new video about one of the biggest cases of agricultural land grabbing in Senegal: 20,000 hectares, first allocated to Senhuile-Sénéthanol, now known as Les Fermes de la Téranga.
On the commencement of the 54 million USD Rhombe Rice Project: Acting agriculture minister welcomes land surveying and mapping experts
- MAF
- 22 January 2021
Experts from South Africa conducted a 230,000 ha aerial land mapping and surveying exercise in Rhombe, Torma Bum and Komrabai Mamela as part of the UAE funded Rhombe Rice Project.
The agreements concluded by companies before the national contact point of the OECD must be respected
- Sherpa
- 21 January 2021
Hearing day in the case initiated against Bolloré by a collective of NGOs coordinated by Sherpa regarding the unethical practices of the Cameroonian Socapalm, directly linked to Bolloré.
Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil
- Mongabay
- 21 January 2021
Members of the Auyu tribe of Papua, Indonesia, are demanding a halt to the operations of palm oil company PT Indo Asiana Lestari (IAL), which appears to be gearing up to clear their ancestral forests. IAL’s concession is part of the Tanah Merah megaproject that is already dogged by allegations that key operating permits have been falsified.
Saudi Arabia triples agriculture investments abroad
- Gulf News
- 21 January 2021
A fund that supports Saudi agriculture investments abroad on the condition that at least 50 per cent of the project’s crops be exported to the Kingdom has tripled the value of its loans since 2016.
Feeding the world while saving the planet a 'difficult' balancing act
- Reuters
- 21 January 2021
A study of 1,500 large land deals totalling 37 million hectares - across Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and eastern Europe - showed that clearing the land for farming may have emitted about 2.3 gigatonnes of carbon emissions.
Dwindling number of Africans own land
- DW
- 20 January 2021
Researchers say the growing interest of companies in investing in agricultural land is the main cause for land inequality.
World Bank, EU ready to provide technical support for Ukraine to launch farmland reform
- UNIAN
- 20 January 2021
The World Bank and the European Union stand ready to provide technical support and other resources for Ukraine to successfully implement farmland reform, says World Bank economist.
Research finds that multinational land deals harm local food security
- OAG
- 20 January 2021
A new study examines the agricultural impact of multinational land deals (aka ‘land grabbing’), which are found to be directly harmful to local food security and livelihoods
Palm oil firm Korindo aims to silence NGOs with baseless “SLAPP” lawsuit
- Mighty Earth
- 19 January 2021
Germany’s Rainforest Rescue (Rettet den Regenwald) and Washington, D.C.-based Center for International Policy (CIP) blasted a baseless defamation lawsuit brought to the Hamburg Regional Court by a supplier to the Korindo conglomerate, a notorious Korean-Indonesian palm oil, logging and wind tower manufacturing giant.