The Mayuge hub — which also covers Bugiri and Namayingo districts — marks the first phase of an oil palm cultivation project in Busoga, following years of preparation and feasibility studies.
- SoftPower
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19 October 2025
Guyana's Minister of Agriculture told a private sector delegation from the Brazilian state of Roraima that Region Nine was an ideal area for expanding agricultural investments, with availability of land suitable for mega-farms.
- Stabroek News
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19 October 2025
Une enquête accablante révèle les zones d’ombre autour de près de 1 000 hectares de concessions foncières, plongeant les communautés locales dans un bras de fer avec la puissante filiale de Socfin.
- La Voix du Centre
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18 October 2025
La Socapalm, filiale de groupe Socfin, a publié un communiqué officiel contestant un rapport de Green Development Advocate
- Investir au Cameroun
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16 October 2025
Liberian civil society and international allies are urgently demanding the RSPO maintain its stop-work order on GVL’s expansion to prevent further deforestation, protect communities’ rights, and ensure accountability for the company’s environmental and human rights violations.
Face aux événements survenus dans le pays, la paysannerie malgache unie s'oppose aux baux de location de terre accordés aux étrangers et demande leur arrêt. Elle revendique la priorisation de l’attribution de terre aux paysans malgaches.
Taking over Olam Agri would fit into Saudi Arabia’s food security strategy, which calls for investing in global companies to lock in supply and encourage them to bring production to the kingdom.
- Bloomberg
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14 October 2025
The Saskatchewan Government has made regulatory amendments to ensure Saskatchewan farm land is not owned by foreigners or corporations, and has removed an exemption that allowed the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to own land.
Chilean farmland investor Toesca and its London-based partner Astarte Capital Partners host an inaugural conference, with presentations from Nuveen Capital and Chile's public pension fund AFP.
En 2025 sigue activándose el fenómeno de acumulación de tierras rurales en manos extranjeras en Uruguay, despertando alertas sobre soberanía, equilibrio productivo y el futuro de los pequeños productores.
- Diario La R
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13 October 2025
DMCI President Isidro Consunji said the family's agriculture business was developing a 12,000-hectare African palm oil plantation in Negros Occidental, as well as a partnership with Japan's Marubeni and UP Los Baños to plant 1.5 million trees across 15,000 hectares for carbon credits.
- Manila Times
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13 October 2025
Legal analysis note by Green Development Advocates presents the blatant illegalities underlying the land issue at the SOCAPALM-Edéa plantation in Cameroon
Funding from Italy will go towards the development of a 10,000 hectare model farm for the production of maize, rice, tomatoes, and soya managed by the Italian company BF International.
- Joy Online
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13 October 2025
Officials of the Malagasy state have leased land in three municipalities of the Ihorombe region to the company Tozzi Green for 30 years. Numerous studies have shown the pressures and manipulations exerted by the authorities, at all levels, to force local communities to accept the company's land use. Some residents refused to the end. Others, among those who agreed, say that they now regret having done so. New information now emerges.
- TANY Collective
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11 October 2025
Des responsables de l’Etat malgache ont loué des terres dans trois communes de la région Ihorombe à l'entreprise Tozzi Green pour 30 ans. De nombreuses études ont montré les pressions et les manipulations exercées par les autorités, à tous les niveaux, pour contraindre les communautés locales à accepter l’exploitation des terres par l'entreprise. De nouvelles informations surgissent.
- Collectif TANY
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11 October 2025