In a major move towards resolving long-standing tensions in Malen Chiefdom, Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister, Dr. Moinina David Sengeh, convened a dialogue on 4 August 2024 where he assured the community of the Government’s commitment to renegotiate the contract with Socfin Agricultural Company.
- Calabash Newspaper
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07 August 2024
President of the Philippines says CP Group committed an additional USD1.5 billion in investments to the country, starting with a 10,000-hectare modernized mega farm, during meeting at the presidential palace.
Twenty organisations and allies of communities affected by the Socfin group’s oil palm and rubber plantations express their dissatisfaction with the Norges Bank Investment Management's decision not to divest from Bolloré SE and Compagnie de l’Odet SE
Since 2010, the unpleasant experience, pain and suffering from the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate program have not ceased and have continued to pile up
- Pusaka & LBH
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30 July 2024
The transaction marks the World Bank's IFC's first engagement with an institutional timberland investment manager, which is expected to generate carbon credits through nature-based solutions in Brazil.
Across the US, large investment firms are driving up farmland prices. In many cases, farmland is sold at prices multiple times the regional average. The cost increases have hit young and beginning farmers the hardest.
Farmland LP, a California-based investment firm, has announced the acquisition of three properties in Northern California’s Sacramento Delta across 2,625 acres for a combined price tag of $35.6 million.
Civil society groups working on land-related issues and women land rights defenders from different communities in Uganda are meeting in Kampala to devise ways to strengthen women’s participation and decision-making in land governance.
- Witness Radio
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29 July 2024
Deregulation and financialisation, carbon offset and industrialised food systems are all factors that threaten equitable land access for farmers, says Nettie Wiebe, a founding member of La Via Campesina from Canada
- La Via Campesina
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29 July 2024
With scarce arable land and water resources, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are expanding their agricultural diplomacy to improve food access and vying for agricultural cooperation with Africa
Two prominent union leaders who were not present when the Salala Rubber Corporation buildings were set on fire have been jailed as retaliation for their efforts to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement for the plantation’s contract workers.
MEAG, the asset manager of Munich Re Group, acquired its first apple orchard in New Zealand on behalf of a client pursuing a New Zealand growth strategy in agriculture.