Six days after the controversial revocation of Certificate of Occupancy of about 13,545 hectares of land belonging to Presco Plc by the Edo State Government, Governor, Monday Okpebholo has said as an investor he cannot be the one sending investors out of the state.
An ASX-listed real estate funds manager has pulled off a second major farmland coup in as many weeks, snapping up a portfolio of 22 properties in an off-market deal.
Large-scale land leases to Gulf and domestic agribusiness investors have undermined rural livelihoods by cutting off grazing routes and limiting access to land, primarily used for cultivating sorghum and other staple food crops, Nisrin Elamin explains.
Grassroots movements push for more inclusive climate governance as palm oil expansion threatens ancestral lands.
La prescription acquisitive pourrait prochainement être rétablie à Madagascar, après presque un an de suspension. Le gouvernement prévoit un encadrement strict pour éviter les abus et sécuriser les droits fonciers.
On the sidelines of an AfDB investment forum in Morocco, Nigeria's Zamfara State signed an MOU with Nigeria's Ministry of Finance under which it will provide arable land, infrastructure and policy incentives while the Ministry mobilises investors.
A long-running legal battle over the French media group Vivendi has coincided with growing scrutiny of the Bolloré family’s wider business interests by anti-corruption groups.
Le média indépendant belge « Médor » a dénoncé une procédure-bâillon de la part de l’entreprise Socfin (Société financière des caoutchoucs), détenue par Hubert Fabri et le groupe Bolloré.
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.
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.
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.
As of the 26th November 2025, the partnership between Socfin and Earthworm Foundation has come to an end, Earthworm announces.
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 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.
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
