The Harvard Management Company, which handles Harvard University's $37 billion endowment, has recently been linked to an agribusiness that may have been involved in deforestation and fraudulent land titles.
Chiefs across Liberia are petitioning lawmakers while activists prepare for a sit-in protest in the nation’s capital as they push to secure ancestral land rights.
Chiefs across Liberia are petitioning lawmakers while activists prepare for a sit-in protest in the nation’s capital as they push to secure ancestral land rights.
Alors que Vincent Bolloré était toujours en garde à vue mercredi, le procès de son homme-lige Hubert Fabri et de la "galaxie Socfin" débute demain.
Alioune Ndiaye alerte sur la famine que connaissent certaines populations du Nord du Sénégal dûe au « phénomène de l’accaparement des terres opéré par les multinationales étrangères qui appauvrissent les cultivateurs ».
Connu pour ses stratégies offensives voire ses coups de force, l'industriel breton Vincent Bolloré se retrouve désormais en position défensive sur fond de soupçons de corruption en Afrique, après avoir aussi vu ses méthodes remises en question ailleurs.
“The goal for the palm oil industry is to have not less than 200,000 hectares of organised oil palm plantation by the end of my administration," Edo State Governor Mr. Godwin Obaseki said.
A mass board resignation at the Chinese firm that bought Australia’s largest dairy farm has fuelled concerns it may not fulfil its promises of local investment and environmental protection.
The birds are said to have migrated from Dominion Farms in the neighbouring Siaya County after the proprietor shifted from rice to sugarcane farming.
The board of Oromia Investment Commission has approved 167 investment projects worth 5.37 billion Br. Over 81pc of them are in agriculture and agro-processing sectors.
The prosecutor’s office in the state of Bahia said it’s reviewing allegations that a company linked to Harvard’s endowment isn’t the rightful owner of land in the region, and it’s determining whether to sue to reclaim the titles.
Karuturi Agro Products PLC says it is about to recommence the troubled commercial farms it was forced to abandon in Ethiopia, last year, with a new 25,000 hectare lease.