A group of community leaders from Colombia, Liberia, Indonesia and Peru have been raising awareness in Europe of the human and environmental impact of palm oil plantations on their communities. Radio interview with Ali Kaba of Liberia's Sustainable Development Institute.
Four years on, what has been done to realise these principles? What are the current debates surrounding implementation of the VGGT? What challenges and obstacles have emerged, and how are they being addressed and resolved in different contexts?
Peasants from more than 19 districts affected by the ProSavana programme and other organisations reiterate their rejection of the ProSavana programme, as it has been advancing against their expressed will for the last four years.
Chinese retailing giant the Dashang Group has snapped up one of Australia’s oldest herds of Wagyu cattle and a second highly productive farm in the prestigious upper Hunter Valley.
The lack of tenure over ancestral lands lies at the root of violent clashes on land leased to foreign palm oil producers in Liberia, a leading researcher said.
Kazakh National Economy Minister Yerbolat Dossayev resigned on May 5 after almost two weeks of protests against amendments to the Land Code that critics say would enable foreigners to buy more land.
One of the country’s largest flower farms Karuturi limited has officially been closed, with receiver managers and liquidators moving in to wind up the farm.
The processes of the Overseas Investment Office are proving to be a barrier to some companies looking to buy New Zealand land.
Kremlin says 51% of the $9.8bn management company will be held by the Russian Federation and 49% by Chinese partners and specifies that land can only be provided to Russian companies for agricultural production.
Indigenous and civil society leaders from Indonesia, Peru, Colombia and Liberia gathered in London Wednesday to urge a boycott of firms that commit human rights violations and land seizures to cultivate palm oil.
Institutional investors want access to farmland in Latin America, but they want it through a Delaware entity that can leap all of the local financial logistics.
"Our main priority in the Far East is to provide the conditions for investment in agricultural and infrastructure spheres," says Russian Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev, naming several regions near China's northeast.
