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Controversial Rai family now targets Mumias sugar nucleus estate
- Kahawatungu
- 12 May 2019
Plans are underway to ensure the family gets a portion of Yala Swamp land - 3,700 hectares - to develop sugarcane.
China's Xinfadi Market has nearly 18,000 hectares of overseas plantations
- Fresh Plaza
- 09 May 2019
The Xinfadi Market has already established its own plantations in more than 8 countries, including the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand, to guarantee low prices and high quality for fruit imported to Beijing.
What we learned from two years of investigating corrupt land deals in Indonesia and what it says about how to fix the nation’s deforestation and land rights crisis
- The Gecko Project
- 08 May 2019
The last of investigative series “Indonesia for Sale” examined the corruption underpinning Indonesia’s land rights and climate crisis in unparalleled depth from the expansion of oil palm plantations in the country.
Sierra Leone: Parliament legalize Sierra Tropical operations
- Awoko
- 08 May 2019
Sierra Tropical Investment Company, a subsidiary of Dole Asia Holdings, has been given the green light to operate a 4,335 ha pineapple farm by the House of Parliament.
How a Chinese venture in Venezuela made millions while locals grew hungry
- Reuters
- 08 May 2019
Under a 2010 pact with the Chávez government, China CAMC Engineering Co Ltd was paid $100 million to develop rice paddies twice the size of Manhattan to feed millions. But 9 years later, locals are hungry and the project hasn’t yielded a single grain of rice.
Central Africa’s rainforests and people suffering from the expansion of palm oil and rubber plantations
- RFUK
- 08 May 2019
Investigations carried out by RFUK and its partner organisations find that three plantations in Cameroon and the Republic of Congo are responsible for destroying over 20,000 ha of forest, an area twice the size of Paris.
Green activists are fighting the great fight—but are being dragged down by petty lawsuits
- Newsweek
- 07 May 2019
In France, the holding company Socfin and its Cameroonian subsidiary Socapalm, both affiliated with Bolloré Group, sued journalists and nongovernmental groups who reported on villagers’ protests against the companies’ palm oil plantations in their communities and land.
21,500 hectares of land in Kawambwa offered to investors
- Lusaka Times
- 06 May 2019
Zambia's Kawambwa Town Council has allocated 21,500 hectares of farms to new more large scale investors to diversify the local economy driven by agriculture, mining and tourism.
Gulf capital and Egypt's corporate food system: a region in the third food regime
- Review of African Political Economy
- 05 May 2019
Gulf investment is one of the largest foreign capitals in Egypt's agribusiness sector and it owns companies that have controlling market shares of corporate food.
President John Magufuli senses fould play in land deal
- Daily News
- 03 May 2019
Follow-up verification by the Tanzanian government finds villagers still being denied lands lands of the Kapunga rice farm that were supposed to be surrendered by its owner, the Export Trading Group.
Land summit or land grab?
- ActNow PNG
- 02 May 2019
Jubilee Australia and the Oakland Institute denounce the National Land Summit, organized by the Papua New Guinea (PNG) government, as a dangerous attack on the country’s unique customary land tenure system.
China touts agriculture cooperation with Belt-Road countries
- Dim Sums
- 30 April 2019
China's investment in foreign agricultural projects is booming, according to statistics peddled by Chinese agricultural officials during "Belt and Road" summit held in Beijing.