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Olam pledges to boost agric value chain
- This Day
- 03 Mar 2020
Olam has embarked on a pilot tomato farming project through its subsidiary, Caraway Africa Nigeria, acquiring 20 ha of land to set up farms in Karfi, Kano State, as well as Jigawa State.
Indonesia’s point man for palm oil says no more plantations in Papua
- Mongabay
- 02 Mar 2020
The Indonesian minister in charge of investments, Luhut Pandjaitan, has declared there will be no new permits for oil palm plantations in the country’s Papua region. Activists are skeptical about the minister’s U-turn, given that Luhut has been the government’s most vocal defender of palm oil industry.
ANZ agrees to landmark settlement with Cambodian farmers displaced by sugar company it financed
- IDI
- 27 February 2020
The ANZ bank has agreed to provide a financial package to Cambodian families forcibly displaced by a sugar company the Australian bank loaned money to in 2011.
Uganda: 35,000 left homeless as private firms share Kiryandongo land
- Daily Monitor
- 25 February 2020
More than 35,000 people from 20 villages are homeless after being evicted from about 9,300 acres [3,764 ha] of land in Kiryandongo District to pave way for large scale farming by foreign-held companies
An enormous land transition is underway. Here’s how to make it just.
- Civil Eats
- 24 February 2020
In the next decade, 400 million acres of U.S. farmland will change hands. A land justice advocate sees a timely opportunity to counteract entrenched income inequality and systemic racism.
Massive farm sale makes Western Australian history
- The Standard
- 21 February 2020
Daybreak Cropping, a partnership between Warakirri Asset Management and the Canadian Public Sector Pension Investment Board, paid $97 million for the 22,000 ha broadacre farm.
Communities facing Zero Deforestation pledges: the case of OLAM in Gabon
- Muyissi and WRM
- 19 February 2020
Muyissi Environnement and WRM report on the experiences of communities located in and around concession areas used by the agribusiness company OLAM in the province of Ngounie, in Gabon.
Soybean mogul negotiating to buy Tejar’s Brazil unit
- Bloomberg
- 19 February 2020
The proposed acquisition of O Telhar by Amaggi encompasses all assets in Brazil, including about 70,000 hectares of farming land, cotton mills, warehouses and machinery
Land grabbing causing poverty in Africa, Archbishop Kaigama warns
- CISA
- 19 February 2020
Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos, Nigeria and President of RECOWA-CERAO has voiced against massive grabbing of agricultural land in Africa.
Open letter to halt land evictions by agribusiness companies in Kiryandongo District.
- witnessradio.org
- 18 February 2020
Letter calls on UK, US and Dutch governments to investigate the growing humanitarian crisis in Kiryandongo district, Uganda, where thousands of families are being evicted by an agribusiness company that they are backing.
Call for answers over British government financing of palm oil firm
- Leigh Day
- 16 February 2020
A letter has been sent to financier CDC Group PLC by a group of environmental NGOs demanding answers about investments in palm oil company Feronia Democratic Republic of Congo
Greenpeace Africa stands with jailed community leaders in Kisangani
- Greenpeace
- 14 February 2020
Greenpeace Africa joins a call for the release of five community leaders from villages affected by the plantations of Canadian multinational Feronia, whose scandalous practices have been exposed by GRAIN and Human Rights Watch.