Study's results in the Amazon “clearly” reinforce “the notion that oil palm plantations can be extremely hostile to native tropical forest biodiversity, as has been shown in more traditional oil palm countries in South-East Asia, such as Malaysia and Indonesia.”
At the Global Landscapes Forum Investment Case Symposium land tenure was the primary issue that was repeatedly pointed to by members of the research, development and finance communities alike as the biggest risk for landscape investment.
Rising demand for leased farmland has convinced agricultural asset manager Growth Farms Australia to launch a 10-year investment fund which will buy mid-sized farming properties and lease them to primary producers.
Ou $2 milliards de greenwashing ?
Cross River State Governor says his administration intends to establish a yellow maize farm which will be the biggest in Africa, in partnership with South African agribusiness.
Some farmers in Oke Uhumwurde local government area and Owan East have called on the Federal and Edo State Government to prevail on Okomu Oil Palm PLC to complete the compensation for lands acquired for its plantations in their communities.
Les évêques sont intervenus en Tanzanie, au Soudan du Sud at au Mozambique où ils ont dénoncé l’achat ou la vente de terres africaines par des étrangers.
Malaysia's Bewani Oil Palm Plantation Limited is set to complete planting of 20,000 hectares of palms by 2019 in West Sepik province, Papua New Guinea
The Court of Appeal will tomorrow start listening to an appeal case filed by Karuturi Limited against CFC Stanbic Bank and its receiver managers.
Les Etats membres, le Parlement et la Commission européenne se sont accordés pour repousser la fin des importations d'huile de palme pour le diesel, malgré leur lien étroit avec les accaparements de terres, dans douze ans.
Un collectif d'associations de lutte contre l'esclavage et ses séquelles, s'est constitué pour aider les paysans à récupérer leurs terres.
KMP chair Danilo Ramos says the President and the head of the Department of Agriculture (DA) “got some explaining to do” as to the extent of agricultural lands being compromised in foreign agri-business deals signed in recent state visits.
“No leasing land to China even for one day,” read a banner hoisted during the recent protests.
Campaign reiterates its position against Prosavana in Mozambique
The Uganda government began handing over tracts of land for palm-oil production to Wilmar International Ltd.’s local unit, removing the final hurdle for an expansion project that’s been delayed for almost a decade.
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CAR offers land ownership using cryptocurrency
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