Les communautés riveraines des plantations de la société Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC) au nord-est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) revendiquent un peu plus de 58 000 hectares de terres et veulent accéder aux titres fonciers de la société pour connaître les limites de ses concessions.
The Bodi people have been decimated since the Gibe III dam came into operation and diverted the Omo River’s waters to large-scale irrigation schemes.
- African Arguments
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29 May 2024
Carbon Done Right plans a stock market flotation and says it has secured access to 57,000 hectares in Sierra Leoone—but no leases have been registered with local authorities
- Source Material
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29 May 2024
Representatives of the Awyu and Moi communities from the Indonesian province of West Papua held traditional ceremonies outside the country’s Supreme Court calling for their traditional land and forests to be protected from palm oil plantations. The Awyu have also intervened in appeals taken by two other palm oil companies against a decision to cancel permits that it had previously issued for them to clear Indigenous lands.
Temasek-owned GenZero is among investors backing the first phase of an ecosystem restoration project, which at full scale targets to plant thicket on 100,000 ha of land across the Eastern and Western Capes of South Africa.
- Business Times
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28 May 2024
Since 2019, the country has added some 175,000 hectares of tree plantations, almost all the fast-growing, carbon-sucking Pinus radiata pine
Hoje vamos ver como os incêndios criminosos favorecem a grilagem e as consequências do roubo de terras para as comunidades tradicionais.
- Le Monde diplomatique Brasil
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27 May 2024
For the World Bank guaranteeing land tenure means business security for large investors, but for small scale producers, Indigenous peoples, workers, and grassroots communities it means land grabbing and displacement
La population d'Apouh A Ngog au Cameroun s'oppose fermement aux travaux de replanting des palmiers à huile de la société Socapalm, du groupe luxembourgeoise Socfin.
Fazenda Agrinor is constructing greenhouses in the commune of Bela Vista, Angola at its 5000 ha farm concession in collaboration with the Israeli company Mitrelli
“Some African nations, such as Kenya and Uganda, are ready to fast-track collaboration in agriculture with India and recently offered land on lease to Indian businesses during a delegation visit," said an Indian official
« Créer un produit financier à partir de la terre agricole », comme le propose le gouvernement français, « c'est dangereux et ce n'est pas adapté », a déclaré mercredi le président de la Safer, un organe de régulation du foncier.
The Azuero Reforestation Project is expected to plant trees on 10,000 hectares of degraded tropical forest on the Azuero Peninsula in Panama that has been converted to low-density cattle ranchland over the last century.
- GlobeNewswire
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22 May 2024
“Probably the biggest growth is in working with large institutional investors at large pension funds and insurance companies, and also some quite large family offices,” which manages over 300,000 ha of farmland and timberland in the US, Europe and Australia.
Australia's Costa family, which already has 88,000 hectares of farms under management, has announced plans to invest $600 million in a new agriculture fund.