The world’s most popular food companies are selling food containing palm oil tainted by shocking human rights abuses in Indonesia, with children as young as eight working in hazardous conditions, says Amnesty International.
A new book presents case studies on changing agro-food systems in Southern Africa within the context of large-scale land-based and agri-business investments.
The Tanzanian government has held a series of stakeholders meetings to enable different interest groups to present their views on the draft National Land Policy, 2016.
The secretary of the Myanmar Investment Commission said foreign investments in agriculture were low because Myanmar has unclear policies in relation to land ownership.
KLK announce withdraws from customary land in Collingwood Bay, but has not clarified overall plans for its total land bank of 44,342 ha in the region or its 37,000 ha plantation deal in Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
Across the globe, governments and investors from wealthy nations are buying up foreign farmland to support domestic food security.
Friends of the Earth and As You Sow are circulating a letter to TIAA clients calling on the firm to disclose information about all of its investments in companies with farmland and palm oil operations, and to commit to a deforestation- and land grab-free investment policy.
The agriculture industry is piquing the interest of investors around the world, according to an investment strategy expert.
The people of the Sinthiou Thirmoy village in Senegal are protesting against the British firm Société de Culture Légumière, accusing it of land grabbing.
Bidco Africa supported the highly controversial purchase of land in Kampala, Uganda, a UN probe has found. The finding draws the Kenyan-owned edible oils manufacturer to the centre of eviction claims by peasant farmers who are fighting the firm in court.
For several years in the Omo Valley numerous companies have operated to carry out various mega agro-industrial projects. New report examines how all these activities are undermining the Valley communities’ access to land and the role of Italian cooperation.
A project for the planting, processing and marketing of sugarcane, involving a 20,000 ha plantation, will be implemented in the northern Bengo province, in a partnership between Angolans and Chinese
