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13 Mar 2025
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Egypt launches new initiative for expats to invest in 1.5mln Feddan Project Daily News | 12 Mar 2025
In a bid to enhance investment opportunities for Egyptians abroad, the New Egyptian Countryside Development Company has launched a new initiative titled “Your Farm in Egypt,” in collaboration with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Migration and Egyptians Abroad Affairs.
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Cairo, Beijing keen to consolidate agricultural ties Egyptian Gazette | 12 Mar 2025
The Egyptian government and a Chinese business delegation are planning for the establishment of an agricultural investment project in the New Valley Governorate through “China Railway,” one of China’s major companies, to produce potatoes, wheat, and soybeans.
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Tanzania: Carbon projects undermine Maasai land rights MISA | 11 Mar 2025
Study finds that two large-scale carbon projects on the grazing lands of the Maasai in Tanzania have committed serious abuses and make traditional grazing practices impossible.
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Nigeria: Amo farm acquires 1,800-acre from UAC in Oyo The Nation | 10 Mar 2025
Amo Farm Sieberer Hatchery Ltd says it has acquired the 1,800 acres to develop a 1.2 million broiler capacity, establish a state-of-the-art broiler processing plant, a beef processing facility, multiple hatcheries, fish ponds, and a dam.
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Indonesia to run palm plantations seized from troubled firm Bloomberg | 10 Mar 2025
The Indonesian government took over management of palm oil plantations seized from a corporation facing a graft probe, under an initiative that may be extended to other troubled commodity-production sites.
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Buvuma: more community land rights defenders are getting targeted, facing judicial harassment, and others are jailed on trumped charges Witness Radio | 06 Mar 2025
In Buvuma District, Uganda, the push for the palm oil project expansion has emboldened land spectators and oil palm brokers to seize more land from neighboring communities. Those who resist often face harsh consequences.
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Socfin face à de nouvelles accusations d'abus sexuels et de conflits fonciers avec les communautés au Cameroun Mongabay | 10 mar 2025
Une série de rapports, publiés le 14 février 2025 par Earthworm Foundation, révèlent de nouvelles allégations de harcèlement sexuel et de spoliation des terres entre autres dans les plantations de la Société camerounaise des palmeraies (Socapalm), filiale de Socfin.
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Un fonds d’investissement acquiert 75 hectares dans l’Aisne Le Betteravier | 10 mar 2025
Vatel Capital est le premier fonds d’investissement en foncier agricole à avoir été référencé en unité de compte, disponible au sein des contrats d’assurance vie en France
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Scandale à Ndiael : Frank Timis laisse derrière lui une ardoise fiscale et des terres à l’abandon leral.net | 07 mar 2025
« En lieu et place des investissements annoncés, tout ce qu’ils ont mis, ce sont des barbelés qui tuent nos animaux. Nous demandons aux nouvelles autorités de s’intéresser à ces terres, comme elles s’intéressent aux terres de Dakar ou de Thiès », s'insurge El Hadji Samba Sow, président du Collectif pour la Défense de Ndiael
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Brasil: SLC compra Sierentz por US$ 135 milhões e passa a ter 66% de terras arrendadas Brazil Journal | 07 Mar 2025
A SLC Agrícola anunciou a aquisição da Sierentz – outra produtora agrícola – por US$ 135 milhões, aprofundando sua estratégia asset light e chegando a dois terços de terras arrendadas.
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Landless Voices: Land & Climate
PCFS and PANAP | Online | 25 Mar 2025
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World Bank Land Conference 2025: Securing Land Tenure and Access for Climate Action: Moving from Awareness to Action
World Bank | Washington DC, US | 05 May 2025
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