Local residents who were evicted from their land for a 42,000 hectare sugar cane plantation are all the more bitter now that the unprofitable and poorly financed agricultural project has collapsed.
- Equal Times
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11 December 2023
Governor Mohammed Bago of Nigeria's Niger State has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Blue Carbon for a carbon capture project to plant one billion new trees on 760,000 hectares in the state.
- Guardian
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08 December 2023
PLAAS continues its discussion with Yan Hariong, exploring China’s ‘Going Out Policy' and its intricate linkages with other developing countries, especially in Africa
British sugar company Tate & Lyle enriched itself off the harvest of stolen land. More than 12,000 Cambodians have been forced off their land, leaving them to suffer through years of destitution.
- Equitable Cambodia
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07 December 2023
Upon listing, African Agriculture will be the first pure-play US-listed agriculture company operating in Africa.
- Globe Newswire
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06 December 2023
Mirova's LDN Fund has raised $208 million from public institutions and private investors and invested in companies like the Swiss company Pamoja which operates nut farms in Kenya and Tanzania
- Fintech Global
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06 December 2023
A World Bank Group entity has agreed to a settlement to end a case alleging that it is liable for financing a notorious palm oil company’s violent land-grabbing campaign in Honduras
- EarthRights
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06 December 2023
African Agriculture Inc, a US company which controls almost 3 million hectares for alfalfa and carbon credit production in Africa, will now be listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
- 10X Capital
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05 December 2023
The people of Okomu community in Edo State have decried the alleged neglect and marginalisation of the area by Okomu Palm Oil, a multinational company and the management of National Park.
- Nigerian Tribune
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05 December 2023
The Dutch company wants to grow to 100 hectares of its own and 100 hectares of cultivation by partner growers in the coming years.
- Horti Daily
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05 December 2023
Between 10 and 15 million acres of tropical forests, an area larger than Switzerland, has been razed in Southeast Asia alone since the 1990s to feed our hunger for rubber.
SAO Agro-Allied Service Limited was granted 100,000 hectares by the Ondo state government to cultivate oil palm, but some portions of the company’s concession are said to overlap with thousands of smallholder farms.
- Mongabay
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01 December 2023