Alibaba founder Jack Ma visits New Zealand farm investment
    China's richest man, Alibaba founder Jack Ma, slipped into New Zealand incognito last month. The founder of the world's largest retailer, which specialises in e-commerce, was in Waikato during Chinese New Year to check out his latest investment.
    • NZ Farmer
    • 14 Mar 2018
    Madagascar: Rogue mayors, gangster politics
    Madagascar, still chafing from a major broil in 2009 after Ravalomanana made a land deal with Daewoo, is set to have a presidential election in November.
    • East African
    • 13 Mar 2018
    Global oil palm body rebukes GVL over Land Grab in Sinoe, Grand Kru
    RSPO rebukes Golden Veroleum for land grab in communities in Liberia, booking the company for not seeking the consent of communities and coercing locals into signing MOUs.
    • FrontPageAfrica
    • 13 Mar 2018
    PNG land grabbers could potentially face International Criminal Court
    Report finds that the PNG government distributed over 5 million ha of customary land  to private companies for large-scale agricultural development, without the free, prior and informed consent of all affected landowners.
    • ActNow
    • 13 Mar 2018
    Uganda allots 27 square miles of land to UAE investor
    President Museveni has promised to allot 7,000 hectares of land in Mbarara District to one of the UAE’s largest dairy companies, Al Rawabi, to set up model farm in the country. The investor and CEO, Dr Ahmad Eltigani Al Mansouri, will bring in new technology to fertilise cows that produce high milk, according to a press release from State House.
    • Africa Business
    • 12 Mar 2018
    UFF-NAIC Agriculture Fund acquires integrated farm
    The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority buys a 3,500 ha farm in Nasarawa State through a joint venture with UFF Agri Investment, a South African company owned by Old Mutual Property
    • Economic Confidential
    • 12 Mar 2018
    Hypocrisy and friends in high places in the Republic of Congo
    Earthsight report exposes the secrecy and collusion in industrial agriculture which are threatening the Congo Basin’s forests. This post details findings from The Republic of Congo.
    • Earthsight
    • 12 Mar 2018
    Govt secures Shs720b for oil palm expansion
    Since 2006, a section of conservationists have been opposed to the Kalangala Oil Palm project as was the case with the BIDCO Buvuma project saying it is a big threat to the environment.
    • Daily Monitor
    • 12 Mar 2018
    Agropalma é acusada de ‘grilagem’ de terras
    PF desmonta fraude fundiária a partir de documentos forjados no interior
    • Folha do Progresso
    • 12 Mar 2018
    Sénégal : Braquage à la ferme agricole de Senegindia à Mbane
    Plus de 130 millions de FCfa [200 000 euros] ont été emportés par des voleurs, qui ont réussi à cambrioler la ferme agricole de Senegindia à Mbane
    • IGFM
    • 10 Mar 2018
    The fall and fall of Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi flower empire
    In India, Karuturi is being accused of sexual harassment while in Africa his struggling flower business in Kenya and Ethiopia has withered – first over tax arrears and debts and later over land deals gone wrong.
    • Daily Nation
    • 10 Mar 2018
    La France quitte la NASAN !
    Après quatre années à dénoncer les risques et les impacts négatifs effectifs de la Nouvelle alliance pour la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition, l’annonce du retrait de la France est une réelle victoire. Mais il marque aussi l’échec de la France à transformer l’initiative et ne signifie pas encore que la NASAN soit définitivement terminée.
    • Oxfam France
    • 09 Mar 2018
    Komenda Sugar Factory remains shut two years after inauguration
    The scheme financed by India's Exim Bank was to see the cultivation of some 14,100 acres of sugar cane but delays in the release of funds for the growing of the sugar cane has turned the plant into a white elephant.
    • Daily Graphic
    • 09 Mar 2018
    Le chemin de croix des riveraines des compagnies agricoles
    A l’occasion de la journée internationale de la femme qui se célèbre ce 8 mars, les femmes vivant près des grandes plantations de palmier à huile, d’hévéa et de banane au Cameroun ont décidé de crier à l’aide face aux souffrances qu’elles endurent au quotidien
    • Hurinews
    • 08 Mar 2018
    Soupçonnées de vole des noix de la Socapalm, au moins deux femmes ont perdu leurs enfants suite à la bastonnade
    Dans plusieurs localités du Cameroun, les femmes sont fouillées jusqu’à leur intimité, violentées, torturées et trainées en justice parce qu’elles détiennent quelques noix de palme, dénoncent les riveraines.
    • Scoops d'Afrique
    • 08 Mar 2018
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