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Communiqué : Quand Socfin (Bolloré et Fabri) attaque Médor

MÉDOR
27 November 2025

Suite à la publication en 2019 d’une enquête « Socfin/Cambodge : les terres rouges des Bunongs perdues à jamais », l’entreprise Socfin (détenue par le groupe Bolloré et Hubert Fabri) a attaqué Médor devant la justice pénale luxembourgeoise. Six ans, des milliers d’euros, des auditions, des inculpations et des heures de défense et de stress plus tard, la justice a ordonné un non-lieu, le 30 avril dernier. Médor dénonce une procédure-bâillon.

Socfin's maze in Cameroon

27 November 2025

This is a case that illustrates the limits of legal provisions, as well as the difficulties faced by local communities in holding the multinationals operating on their land to account.

Au Cameroun, le labyrinthe de Socfin

Public Eye
27 November 2025

C’est un cas qui illustre les limites des dispositions légales ainsi que les difficultés des communautés locales à rendre responsables les multinationales qui opèrent sur leur terrain.

The partnership between Socfin and Earthworm Foundation has come to an end

Earthworm Foundation
26 November 2025

As of the 26th November 2025, the partnership between Socfin and Earthworm Foundation has come to an end, Earthworm announces.

Québec : Nouvelles restrictions pour l’acquisition d’une terre agricole

La Terre
26 November 2025

Depuis décembre 2024, la Loi sur la protection du territoire et des activités agricoles au Québec interdit l’acquisition d’une terre agricole de 4 ha ou plus située en zone agricole par un fonds d’investissement

Mexico wins arbitration case against U.S. company for 2.7 billion dollars

MPA
26 November 2025

Mexico obtained a decisive ruling in its favor in the international arbitration initiated by the US company Amway, which claimed more than 2.7 billion dollars in damages after the government returned 160 ha of farmland it was operating on to the community of San Isidro.

The case of Africa's 'vanishing' carbon deals

AFP
26 November 2025

Liberia's Blue Carbon deal has stalled. Other accords across Africa and elsewhere have also gone nowhere, while the UAE company itself appears to have fallen silent, according to a joint investigation by AFP and Code for Africa

Grilagem de terras, violência e morte das águas: relatório aponta os modos de expansão do agronegócio no Oeste da Bahia

Brasil de Fato
25 November 2025

No Oeste da Bahia, a atuação de empresas nacionais e transnacionais do agronegócio tem ampliado a grilagem de terras e a violência contra comunidades rurais. É o que aponta o relatório Especulação Financeira e Impactos Socioambientais do Agronegócio no Cerrado da Bahia, produzido pela Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos, com apoio da Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT) e Amigos da Terra.

African Development Bank approves $24 million to advance private sector-led agro-industrial growth in Tanzania

AfDB
25 November 2025

The project with MeTL will rehabilitate ageing tea estates, convert more than 1,000 hectares into organic plantations and upgrade processing factories to double production capacity. It will also establish at least 15,000 hectares of sisal plantations and a new 200-hectare macadamia plantation.

African Golden Food secures $1m investment for climate-smart agro-industrial in Africa

GBN
25 November 2025

AGF says the $1 million equity investment from FrugalFP B.V. of the Netherlands will accelerate its development of Africa’s first Smart Circular Agro-Food & Carbon Innovation Vehicle, a 10,000-hectare integrated agroforestry and cassava–sweet potato processing initiative based in Ghana’s Kwahu Afram Plains.

How control over crops may decide who holds power in a warming world

Geographical
25 November 2025

As governments from the Gulf to Beijing quietly buy up farmland around the world, a silent shift in global power is underway – one that few have noticed, but all will feel

Al Gore venture gets $200 million from firms including RBC

Bloomberg
25 November 2025

A venture set up by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management has attracted $200 million in new money for a strategy that targets the restoration of land degraded by farming and deforestation.

Communiqué : Quand Socfin (Bolloré et Fabri) attaque Médor

Socfin's maze in Cameroon

Au Cameroun, le labyrinthe de Socfin

The partnership between Socfin and Earthworm Foundation has come to an end

Québec : Nouvelles restrictions pour l’acquisition d’une terre agricole

Mexico wins arbitration case against U.S. company for 2.7 billion dollars

The case of Africa's 'vanishing' carbon deals

Grilagem de terras, violência e morte das águas: relatório aponta os modos de expansão do agronegócio no Oeste da Bahia

African Development Bank approves $24 million to advance private sector-led agro-industrial growth in Tanzania

African Golden Food secures $1m investment for climate-smart agro-industrial in Africa

How control over crops may decide who holds power in a warming world

Al Gore venture gets $200 million from firms including RBC

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