Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process has been initiated against Bengaluru-based Karuturi Global, which owns large rose farm holdings in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Pune and Bengaluru.
Twenty-four days have passed since land defender Joël Imbangola Lunea was brutally killed by Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc.'s chief of security at Bempumba, in the Province of Equateur of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
UK-based investor AgDevCo has expanded its geographic reach into Cote d’Ivoire with an €8.7 million investment in DekelOil, an agribusiness leader in the West African palm oil and cashew sectors.This investment brings AgDevCo’s portfolio to more than 40 active investments totaling $170 million across sub-Saharan Africa.
The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms. A war waged by deed of title has dispossessed 98 percent of black agricultural landowners in America.
US Ambassador visits large-scale farm of Asili Farms, a US owned-company farming maize and oilseed on 13,500 acres in Uganda.
Birhanu Fikade of "The Reporter" sat down with Atkyelesh G.M. Persson (PhD) to learn about her findings on large scale FDI that failed to deliver the desired results in Ethiopia
Scholar and employee of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Atkyelesh G.M. Persson, recommends that the government, private sector and academia further investigate the potential damages large scale farms have perpetrated in Ethiopia and beyond.
A record amount of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest was cut down or destroyed last month, fuelling concerns that under President Jair Bolsonaro, illegal miners and farmers are involved in a free-for-all land grab.
The agricultural company Al Ravafed Serbia, a majority-owned company of the same name from the United Arab Emirates, operated 3,500 ha in Karadjordjevo in 2018 with a loss of more than two million euros
COFCO announced it will finance the expansion of more than 60 million acres [24 million ha] of soybean production in Brazil.
Kiryandongo Sugar, allegedly owned by some Indians, Agilis, owned by an American called Philip Investor, and Sole Agro Business Company, also owned by Indians, have been named in the evictions of thousands of people in the western districts of Kiryandongo and Masindi in Uganda.
Nine Lao villagers held for over two years for protesting the loss of land awarded by the government to a Vietnamese rubber company have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from two to six years.
