The pact with China's Guangxi Fenglin Wood Industry Group and a company the Zambian government said was called Development Company Ltd. of China, will include 100,000 hectares of plantations of slash pine.
Belgian businessman Hubert Fabri and Vincent Bolloré's group want to take total control of Socfin by acquiring all the shares in the Luxembourg multinational, which is regularly accused of human rights violations.
Under Cibus Fund I’s ownership, Innoliva has doubled its footprint from around 4,300ha of “super high-density” olive-oil production to over 8,300ha of diversified products, including almonds and table olives.
In its first case to address a major palm oil commodity trader, the Dutch National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises offered its good offices in the complaint filed by Peruvian Indigenous Leaders against Louis Dreyfus Company B.V.
The consolidation of smallholding farms has long been taking place in advance of so-called economies of scale — but instead of benefiting farmers, this has so far benefited only land-grabbers.
The Communities who were contending over the equity distribution of ground rent by the owner of the estate, Wing Song M-House, finally reached a mutual understanding after a series of previous engagements with the ministry.
New report by the Oakland Institute examines the African Forestry Impact Platform bankrolled by European development finance institutions, Japanese oil interests, and an Australian investment firm.
Fears of China buying up farmland in the United States have been grabbing headlines despite the fact that China owns less than 1 percent of foreign-owned land.
Behind a process to transfer land and hand over 14,173 hectares to three villages stands Landesa, a land rights organization that designed the modality of the transfer process and coordinated the negotiations.
Twiga Foods boss Peter Njonjo transferred 20,000 acres handed to him by President William Ruto’s administration in the Galana-Kulalu scheme to his private company, the Business Daily has established.
Work is progressing on the joint venture between Demerara Distillers Limited and the LR Group of Israel, with land clearing and preparation of the first 100 acres currently in progress.
A delegation of agriculture and MSMEs agriculturists is set to travel to Paraguay, driven by the prospect of procuring land and initiating farming ventures.
