Deal between the Kebbi Government and the Spanish company GB Foods Africa will proceed when legal backing is given to cultivate 1,000 hectares of farm lands to produce tomatoes in the Ngaski local government area.

Today’s Human Rights Watch report concerning our shared investment in PHC/Feronia highlights the need for further investment to improve environmental and working conditions

NGOs call on the CDC Group and all the development banks involved in the Feronia-PHC oil palm plantations to publicly issue a clear statement of support for the mediation process and to ensure the security of participating community members.

Four European development banks are financing a palm oil company in the Democratic Republic of Congo that is violating workers’ rights and dumping untreated waste, says a report by Human Rights Watch.

The UK development bank has been accused of failing to protect workers from exposure to dangerous pesticides and paying “extreme poverty” wages on palm oil plantations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The High Court of Sierra Leone adjourned the contempt of court hearing against the rights campaigner group, Green Scenery for the second time, after a heated debate between the rival counsels.

The Laos government has awarded land concessions to foreign and domestic companies for the use of about 11.7 million hectares. “But the amount of land actually being used for development is about 549,248 hectares,” Chairman of the Assembly’s Committee on Economy, Technology and Environment said.

The CDC Group says that it cannot release the findings of its investigation at this time but announces that the investigation found no evidence of a link between the homicide and Feronia.

Several agribusiness initiatives have stalled due to a combination of administrative logjams and a hostile political environment that increasingly questions the real motives behind the sudden interest by foreigners in African agriculture.

At a briefing to discuss the numbers, Minister of the Environment Ricardo Salles said the rise in deforestation showed the need for a new strategy to combat illegal logging, mining and land grabbing, which he said were to blame for the increase in deforestation.

Brazil and Japan plotted a farming revolution in Mozambique. But instead of sowing soya, they planted seeds of opposition.

"The World Bank Group congratulates the Ukrainian Leadership on the successful first reading of the law to lift the moratorium on agricultural land sales," the Bank said in a statement on Facebook