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Louis Dreyfus déchante en Côte d'Ivoire
- Jeune Afrique
- 07 January 2015
Deux ans après l'accord signé entre Dreyfus et Abidjan, l'enthousiasme suscité par l'arrivée de la multinationale est retombé.
Making agricultural investments work for land users & communities
- Focus on Land
- 07 January 2015
Earlier this year, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made an unexpected commitment related to foreign investment in land and community land rights.
Cambodia government seizes back economic land concession licenses from 23 companies last year
- China.org.cn
- 06 January 2015
In the past year, a total area of 90,682 hectares of the Cambodia ELCs land had been taken back from 23 companies and put under the management of the Environment Ministry
La Ecuarunari tiene reparos a la Ley de Tierras
- La Hora
- 06 January 2015
Aparte de que se sancione el acaparamiento de tierra, la Ecuarunari propone incorporar otros tres elementos: exoneración del pago del impuesto predial a quienes tengan menos de 10 hectáreas, libertad para parcelar la tierra y ejercicio de la autodeterminación en territorios ancestrales.
Can this man save Ukraine's economy?
- Bloomberg
- 06 January 2015
Ukraine's newly appoined Minister of the Economy has managed money-losing funds for years as partner of agribusiness investor East Capital, but he never presided over anything as hopeless as the Ukrainian economy.
The people pushed out of Ethiopia's fertile farmland
- BBC
- 06 January 2015
The construction of a huge dam in Ethiopia and the introduction of large-scale agricultural businesses has been controversial, and finding out what local people think can be hard.
Face à l’expansion de l’huile de palme, l’EIA organise un atelier
- Environmental Investigation Agency
- 06 January 2015
EIA organise un atelier pour renforcer les capacités de la société civile, des leaders des communautés et des peuples autochtones pour mieux appréhender les implications du développement du palmier à huile.
EIA hosts workshop as palm oil development increases
- Environmental Investigation Agency
- 06 January 2015
A regional workshop in mid-December brought Civil Society Organizations, local communities, and Indigenous people groups in the Congo Basin together to address the emerging threat of palm oil development in the region.
Cargill takes steps to meet growing demand for sustainable palm oil
- Cargill
- 06 January 2015
Cargill has acquired the Poliplant Group, giving it approximately 50,000 hectares of land adjacent to Cargill’s existing palm oil operations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Ethiopia: There is a big need for infrastructure - Jemal Ahmed
- Africa Report
- 05 January 2015
The executive supervising MIDROC's Ethiopian agriculture projects talks to The Africa Report about how rocketing consumption has been an opportunity for the company.
Olam ploughs ahead with Asean expansion
- Finance Asia
- 05 January 2015
Olam has snapped up a diverse global portfolio of assets that includes rice farms in Nigeria, almond orchards in Australia, dairy operations in Uruguay and coffee plantations in Laos.
Congo Basin communities and NGOs mobilise in response to growing palm oil threat in the region
- FPP
- 05 January 2015
Organisations from Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, and the Republic of Congo, agree to a "joint position" on the expansion of palm oil in the region.