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    • Three Chinese companies won economic land concessions in Ratanakiri Province
      • Weixin
      • 16 Mar 2025

      According to Cambodian media, the Ratanakiri Provincial Information Bureau recently issued a notice announcing the approval of 17 foreign-funded enterprises to obtain economic land concessions (ELC) in the province, covering agricultural planting, agro-industrial integration and beef cattle breeding. Among foreign companies that have obtained economic land concessions, Vietnamese companies dominate, followed by Chinese and Indian companies. In addition, 10 local companies have also obtained land investment with a total area of ​​146,366 hectares.

    • US giant quits NT cattle station amid carbon confusion
      • AFR
      • 16 Mar 2025

      A global commodities trader and carbon player, part-owned by funds giant Brookfield, is quitting a 450,000-hectare Northern Territory cattle station where it hoped to set up an offset scheme, amid confusion and delays over new carbon rules.

    • Louis-Dreyfus family sells Russian agricultural firm at 'big discount', Interfax reports
      • Reuters
      • 16 Mar 2025

      Members of the Louis-Dreyfus family behind the eponymous global grain firm have sold their share of Russian agricultural firm RZ Agro, which farms on an area of over 100,000 ha in southern Russia, to co-owner Steppe Agroholding

    • Dari Merauke, Masyarakat Terdampak PSN Tolak Perampasan Tanah dan Ruang Hidup
      • Konsolidasi Solidaritas Merauke
      • 14 Mar 2025

      Suara penolakan dan perlawanan atas berbagai Proyek Strategis Nasional (PSN) bermasalah bergema dari Merauke, Papua Selatan, provinsi paling timur Indonesia yang tengah disasar proyek cetak sawah dan kebun tebu warisan pemerintahan Presiden Joko Widodo, dan kini dilanjutkan Presiden Prabowo Subianto.

    • Thailand: Stop foreign land grabs
      • Bangkok Post
      • 14 Mar 2025

      The latest report on Chinese investors buying protected forest land to expand their durian plantations is worrying. This is more than just an illegal land grab, however. Soon, the whole durian supply chain will feel the impact. These blatant land grabs must be stopped with a sense of urgency.

    • The “biggest trout farm in Africa” and the failed R5,000 community fund
      • Ground Up
      • 14 Mar 2025

      In order to apply for a licence from the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, private equity owned SanLei Premium Trout had to show how local communities would benefit. But the Catchment Resilience Fund initiative seems to have crumbled after less than a year.

    • Solidaritas Merauke Declaration
      • Solidaritas Merauke
      • 14 Mar 2025

      For four days on 11-14 March 2025, more than 250 indigenous peoples and local communities affected by Indonesia National Strategic Projects, as well as various civil society organisations, gathered in Merauke, South Papua to challenge the mega projects for rice, sugarcane, oil palm as well as others that will grab million of hectares of community and indigenous territories across the country.

    • Egypt launches new initiative for expats to invest in 1.5mln Feddan Project
      • Daily News
      • 12 Mar 2025

      In a bid to enhance investment opportunities for Egyptians abroad, the New Egyptian Countryside Development Company has launched a new initiative titled “Your Farm in Egypt,” in collaboration with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Migration and Egyptians Abroad Affairs.

    • Cairo, Beijing keen to consolidate agricultural ties
      • Egyptian Gazette
      • 12 Mar 2025

      The Egyptian government and a Chinese business delegation are planning for the establishment of an agricultural investment project in the New Valley Governorate through “China Railway,” one of China’s major companies, to produce potatoes, wheat, and soybeans.

    • Tanzania: Carbon projects undermine Maasai land rights
      • MISA
      • 11 Mar 2025

      Study finds that two large-scale carbon projects on the grazing lands of the Maasai in Tanzania have committed serious abuses and make traditional grazing practices impossible.

    • Nigeria: Amo farm acquires 1,800-acre from UAC in Oyo
      • The Nation
      • 10 Mar 2025

      Amo Farm Sieberer Hatchery Ltd says it has acquired the 1,800 acres to develop a 1.2 million broiler capacity, establish a state-of-the-art broiler processing plant, a beef processing facility, multiple hatcheries, fish ponds, and a dam.

    • Indonesia to run palm plantations seized from troubled firm
      • Bloomberg
      • 10 Mar 2025

      The Indonesian government took over management of palm oil plantations seized from a corporation facing a graft probe, under an initiative that may be extended to other troubled commodity-production sites.

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