A Nigerian-owned agribusiness firm, JR Farms, has entered a partnership with the Cross River Government to develop a 30,000-hectare coffee plantation across the 18 local government areas of the state over the next five years.
Perhaps no country has been affected by Harvard’s land grabs more than Brazil, home to nearly half of the University’s farmland acquisitions.
Optimism is reverberating among workers as issues of decrepit housing and a plethora of other problems left behind by Socfinaf - a Luxembourg multinational, partly held by France's Bolloré group, that owned SRC until it divested in August 2024 - are now being addressed.
Peruvian Agriculture Minister Angel Manero on Monday announced some $24 billion in largely public-private projects to improve irrigation in the Andean nation, as the government looks to expand its farmlands by some one million hectares
The Italian multinational Tozzi Green has begun planting trees on land that local residents claim was stolen from them
The Ghana Green Guard USD$25 billion climate futures initiative is a public-private collaborative partnership that will generate over 305 million carbon credits across 12 million hectares with projects based on reforestation, regenerative agriculture and other activities.
Alors qu’une nouvelle campagne de replantating des palmiers à huile est annoncée, la Socapalm craint la paralysie de ses activités par une nouvelle incursion des riverains dans ses plantations. Le Préfet de la Sanaga-Maritime est appelé à la rescousse.
The Kenyan government is planning on leasing at least 350,000 acres of land under its control to private companies as part of plans to increase food production over the next decade.
The World Bank unit's "action plan" is an attempt to respond to its own compliance advisor's recommendations on issues ranging from land grabs to sexual exploitation on the plantation.
El grupo agroindustrial, ya acusado de acaparamiento de tierras baldías, ha logrado certificar más de 11 mil créditos de carbono en hectáreas dedicadas a la conservación de la biodiversidad en el Vichada, Colombia
Better Cotton has released an update to the ‘action plan’ it put in place to curb unsustainable and illegal practices in Brazil’s cotton sector but it fails to even acknowledge the reality of land grabbing that has underpinned the sector’s expansion in recent decades at the expense of native ecosystems and the livelihoods of traditional communities.
Despite persistent rumors, only 4% of Chinese investment in Uzbekistan goes into agriculture. Foreign investors cannot purchase land, it can only be leased for a maximum of 25 years through open auctions.
Al Gore-backed private equity firm Just Climate has secured its first round of funding from two major global investors to begin investing in solutions aimed at reducing agricultural emissions.
Una investigación del Registro Agrario Nacional en México reveló que 36 personas poseen alrededor de 63 mil ejidos que abarcan más de 39 mil hectáreas, divididas en 21 mil 695 parcelas útiles para las actividades agropecuarias o forestales y 41 mil 385 predios destinados a la urbanización y construcción de vivienda.
The Utah-based Mormon Church has added a large-scale dryland cropping operation in the renowned Golden Triangle region of northern New South Wales to its growing Australian agricultural portfolio.
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Italy supports sustainable agriculture projects in Ghana
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