AIDESEP calls on Ocho Sur's international buyers to reiterate that they have an obligation to exercise due diligence before purchasing palm oil from this company.
The Brazilian government has approved the registration of more than 250,000 hectares (620,000 acres) of farms since April 2020 within Indigenous reserves that are still undergoing the demarcation process.
The company is currently scaling up sugar cane planting with the target to reach about 3000 hectares of cane harvest by January 2025, of the 78,000 hectares of land acquired by Dangote Industries Limited.
Tanmiah operates 93 farms as well as 6 hatcheries, 2 feed mills, 4 slaughterhouses, 3 food processing plants, and 13 dry and cold storage facilities located in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE.
Turkey is revisiting a plan it started in 2016 but failed to execute leasing farmland in Sudan to grow sufficient food for home consumption and export.
In early June of this year, a Russian business delegation during its trip to Iran suggested that Iran acquire more than 100,000 hectares of agricultural land in Russia and carry out "extra-territorial agriculture".
Proposal comes as part of recommendations to support land and carbon markets so they work to the public’s benefit, alongside the second part of a major report into Scotland’s changing land market.
A major loan was approved this week for an industrial food producer operating in Brazil, despite concerns that the money would ultimately fund activities that contribute to deforestation.
The North Dakota Attorney General has approved the sale and continued farming of about 2,100 acres of North Dakota farmland to a trust reportedly connected to billionaire Bill Gates.
So far, the government has made available 5,000 hectares of land at Chimwamkango estate for value crops and 5,000 hectares of land at Dwambazi estate in Nkhotakota for cattle raising
Other countries should be careful about allowing sales of farmland to hostile powers.
A new investigation has found that agricultural firms connected to powerful people, including the first family, were given non-transparent contracts to develop land in Karabakh.
