Some villagers say they are being pressured to give up fertile land traditionally used for subsistence farming for a project called the Malipati Agrihub, with no clear benefit or consent from the broader community.

The World Bank Group’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman found that the IFC failed to follow its own safeguards, enabling widespread harm to land rights, community health, cultural heritage and women by the Salala Rubber Corporation.

The Nasarawa State High Court sitting in Obi has ordered all parties in a land dispute involving 21 Tiv communities, the Nasarawa State government, and the Nigerian Army to maintain the status quo and preserve the disputed 10,000 hectares of ancestral farmlands pending the determination of the suit.

"Oman’s food-security programmes and water technology can link with East Africa’s arable land and examples are Kenya’s tea and coffee farms and Tanzania’s horticulture," the Chairman of East African Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture says

According to an article in Reporterre, TotalEnergies has quietly abandoned the project, with only 12.5% of the proposed trees planted.

The project with Israeli firm LR Group will develop a large farming hub spread over 10,000 hectares to grow rice, maize, and soybeans using advanced tools and techniques.

A long-standing land dispute has recently escalated between a subsidiary of the European holding company Socfin and the Indigenous Apouh à Ngog (Apouh) community in Cameroon’s Littoral region.

During the exchange, the Qatari representatives expressed to the Algerian Investment Promotion Agency their strong interest in entering the Algerian market and affirmed their serious intent to launch a large-scale agricultural investment project.

Swedish energy company Jord AB has secured 300 hectares of land in Sakar, southern Senegal, to develop a large-scale solid biofuel project, in a first phase of a broader program that aims to cover up to 1,000 hectares.

The Dutch-owned company that already holds 16,000 cows and more than 7,000 ha of cultivated land is planning the construction of a new 5,000-head cattle facility.

One of Hong Kong’s wealthiest tycoons, Li Ka-Shing, whose interests include energy and agricultural investments in this country, has forged into the carbon market, acquiring a vast Western Australian landholding earmarked for a ‘regenerative agriculture’ project.

The director of Sahal Agro-Holdings Limited, who is embroiled in a fierce legal battle over a 100,000-acre parcel of land at Galana Kulalu, was arrested on Friday.