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.
Longtemps en difficulté, le groupe canadien arrivé dans le pays en 2009 dit qu'il devrait réaliser ses premiers bénéfices cette année.
L'américain African Palm Corp dispose déjà de 1,5 million d'hectares en palmiers et projette de porter cette superficie à 7 Mha à travers l'Afrique occidentale au cours des cinq prochaines années
El informe apunta a la extranjerización de las tierras para favorecer intereses de empresas europeas de pastas de celulosa y papeleras, en detrimento de los pequeños productores y del resto de la población en la región mesopotámica.
Second installment of Indonesia for Sale, an in-depth series of articles on the corruption behind Indonesia’s deforestation and land rights crisis. Ghosts in the machine exposing land deals behind the downfall of Indonesia’s top judge.
Mongabay journalists report on the impacts of the rapid expansion of agribusiness on the region’s environment and people.
Supporters of family farming who oppose the rise of big-business agricultural practices in Missouri gathered to lobby legislators against concentrated animal feeding operations and foreign ownership of Missouri farmland
Tokyo-based Nippon Life Insurance Company makes its first investment in a farmland investment fund through a US$92.5 million investment in an overseas farmland investment fund managed by Hancock Natural Resources Group
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