The Ministry of Land Management yesterday gave authorities in Koh Kong, Kampong Speu and Preah Vihear provinces one month to identify people affected by years-long sugar company land disputes.
With its renewed promotion of what it calls the “Sunshine Industry,” the Philippine government is looking to cultivate another one million hectares of oil palm, 98 percent of which would be on the island of Mindanao.
ACT NOW! accuses the government of lying to the nation over the SABL land grab and says people across Papua New Guinea will be angry and disappointed.
English version of communications strategy document that provides guidance on how to weaken Mozambican peasant and CSO movements opposed to the ProSavana project finally revealed.
In a press conference, UN expert Baskut Tuncak spoke of “numerous claims of land appropriation by Socfin”, a Luxembourg company that produces palm oil in Sierra Leone and is part owned by the French group Bolloré.
AgDevCo expects that its investments in two large-scale commercial farming enterprises in Zambia will provide the “critical mass” needed to attract ancillary businesses along the supply chain
The AU-ECA-AfDB Land Policy Initiative and the government of Madagascar organised a workshop to validate the Country Report and Business Plan on Mainstreaming Land Governance in the National Agricultural Investment Plan.
The government said it wants to protect local farmers and prevent foreigners from taking over natural resources.
Between 2002 and 2011 the Papua New Guinea government issued more than 75 SABL leases covering more than 50,000 square kilometres of land. The leases were the subject of a Commission of Inquiry which found widespread fraud and other abuses.
Hassad Food – owned by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund the Qatar Investment Authority – is selling another major portion of its Australian farmland portfolio worth about $80 million.
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has a large agriculture aspect with large tracts of land expected to be leased out to Chinese firms for developing advanced planting and breeding bases.
About 100 community members locked in a long-running land dispute with the owners of Koh Kong Sugar Industry Company clashed with Chamkarmon district security forces after blocking the street in front of the Land Management Ministry
