Economic Commission for Africa and African Union representatives agree on the need for agricultural investment models that minimize land transfers and lead to shared prosperity at local and national levels.
Russia's sovereign wealth fund and the Israeli investment company LR Group have agreed to co-invest $100 million into dairy farming and milk processing in Russia.
Peasants in Honduras have sued a branch of the World Bank over its financing of the corporation Dinant, which has vast palm oil plantations in Bajo Aguán valley
Lands Minister Benny Allen is blocking the implementation of government decisions to end the SABL land grab and return stolen land to its customary owners.
Some Chinese investors plan to shutter their banana farms in Laos and relocate to other countries while others plan to replace the yellow herbaceous fruit with other agricultural crops after sustaining losses.
- Vientiane Times
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07 Mar 2017
Palm oil, rubber, cacao, and coffee were among the farm products that would be sought by investors, he said. Their target farmland will be in Paquibato and Marilog districts of the city.
By far the largest current risk to this uniquely valuable ecosystem in the Congo is a giant concession issued to Malaysian firm Atama Plantation for the development of palm oil.
Cape Town-based Polar Star Management Ltd plans to use its own money to buy small farms and processing companies in South Africa this year.
Our endorsement of the Open Letter of the Mozambican civil society organisations to JICA entitled "Protest against JICA’s action to the Mozambican society under the ProSAVANA programme"
This is the first letter that peasants and civil society organisations of Mozambique that are part of the “No to ProSavana Campaign” send to JICA.
- No to ProSavana
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01 Mar 2017
Stories of communities affected by Noble Group's plantation in Papua, recorded during the Conference for Indigenous Communities affected by Investment in the Land of Papua in December 2016.
- AwasMIFEE
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28 February 2017
One of Africa's largest palm oil companies that is majority-owned by the British government through foreign aid funding has failed to meet a promise to improve housing for its Congolese workers or pay them on time, investigations have revealed.