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Major rice farm hit by flood in Nasarawa
- Channels Television
- 08 October 2022
Olam says 4,000 ha of its large rice farm in Nigeria were submerged and that damages could be worth as much as $15 million.
Carbon emissions from land acquisitions in Laos
- Ecology and Society
- 05 October 2022
Large-scale land acquisitions repeatedly fall short of their acclaimed socioeconomic benefits. In Laos, the government has started to question its own “Turning Land into Capital” policy, and reviews land acquisitions or concessions with regard to their socioeconomic impacts.
Bousra villagers agree to accept Socfin-KCD compensation
- Khmer Times
- 04 October 2022
About 100 families from five villages in Bousra commune, Mondulkiri province, Cambodia have agreed to end a long-running land dispute with the Socfin-KCD company that is active in the rubber plantation industry.
Kisumu inks Sh30bn agriculture investment deal with UK firm
- The Star
- 04 October 2022
The partnership is between UK investment group United Green and Kisumu County 42 Lake Ventures Company will include primary farms that will integrate with 100,000 hectares of surrounding farming communities via a unique smallholder farmer scheme.
Investor keen on rice farming
- Post Courrier
- 03 October 2022
A potential large-scale rice farming company in the Philippines will be sending a delegation to Papua New Guinea in November this year to evaluate the country’s potential for large-scale rice farming in Central Province.
Australia: Expanding farming families spend big on livestock stations
- AFR
- 02 October 2022
Rising interest rates and higher production costs have failed to dent the appetite for prime livestock stations as demand from cashed-up farming families looking to expand outweighs a limited supply of properties for sale.
Special Economic Zones and land tenure : Global trends and local impacts in Senegal and Madagascar
- Foncier-Développement
- 30 September 2022
Many studies on SEZs focus on their economic performance. Less attention has been paid to how they affect land rights, or broader questions they raise about territorial governance, legislation and economic development models.
Cypriot court allegedly freezes $79 million of tycoon Bakhmatyuk's assets
- Kyiv Independent
- 29 September 2022
The District Court of Nicosia in Cyprus has granted a worldwide freezing order against Ukrainian agricultural tycoon Oleh Bakhmatyuk for $79.4 million.
Agua, tierra y despojo
- Prensa Rural
- 28 September 2022
La tierra y el agua están interrelacionadas y son inseparables, y el agua, en este sentido, es un aspecto esencial de la tierra y la vida
A decade of struggle to reclaim land from foreign agribusinesses in Senegal
- Oakland Institute
- 27 September 2022
New podcast, in English, featuring Ardo Sow from the Collectif pour la Défense du Ndiaël
Foreign investors are snapping up US land … but exactly how much, who knows?
- Investigate Midwest
- 27 September 2022
What if foreign investors, US corporation funds, pension funds, land development companies, and wealthy investors continue to buy more US farmland?
ATG-Bio Agro Lands contract to provide 30,000 tons of corn to SGMP subsidiary of SOMDIAA
- ATG
- 27 September 2022
The corn will be grown in Makabana in the Republic of Congo on 4,981 hectares of Bio Agro land, under contract by ATG, and there are an additional 2,000 hectares available to ATG under the agreement.