An Oxford University boxing blue, a former Shell chairman, and an ex-SAS commanding officer are looking to raise $26.6m to build the biggest food company in Ebola-scarred Sierra Leone.
ESAT's WWH Show interviews Obang Metho on land grabs by Karuturi and other companies in Ethiopia.
Belgian NGOs organised a protest on the occasion of the World Bank’s annual conference on land and poverty which is taking place in Washington, DC this week.
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Seoung Sarat says he lost his right leg in 2009 because of a conflict with a company that was granted his land by the government to use for large-scale farming.
Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders calls upon the authorities of Sierra Leone to put an end to all acts of harassment against several members of the Malen Land Owners and Users Association.
EBG Capital surveyed 8 investment funds about their "responsible investment" practices in farmland deals.
The Coca-Cola Co has made a good start in axing land grabs from its supply chain, but it must work harder in proving that its bottlers and sugar suppliers do not violate land rights, development experts told the company.
Land is life. But for millions of small-scale farmers and food producers, including indigenous communities, access to land and resources is undermined by monopoly control of landlords and big corporations. Support "No Land, No Life" campaign.
The decision by the government to invite and accommodate investors in large scale farming has divided the nation into two alliances: the government-investor versus NGO-smallholder farmers.
Kuban Agricultural Holding is in talks to sell a stake with a number of Asian funds and investment companies, including Chinese firm CIC, which is interested in Basic Element's livestock division.
European food companies are illegally grabbing land from smallhold farmers in Africa as part of the G8 New Alliance project, says an Action Aid report published this month.
