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24 Apr 2025
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Uzbek farmers say they're being forced to surrender land to Chinese firms Radio Free Europe | 23 Apr 2025
Farmers in Uzbekistan say the government is forcing them to surrender land to Chinese businesses under the guise of state-backed development, taking thousands of hectares of fertile cotton and wheat fields out of the hands of locals.
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Australia: Tasmanian farmland is seeing a hedge-fund buying spree—locals fear climate investors not tourists DMN | 23 Apr 2025
The bigger question—one Tasmania must answer soon—is how much of its food-bowl can be outsourced to balance sheets before community cohesion snaps.
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Ruto secures Sh107 billion deals from Chinese investors to propel Kenya's economy, create jobs The Star | 23 Apr 2025
Agricultural ventures feature prominently, with Shandong Jialejia Agriculture committing Sh3.9 billion to a 500,000-hen egg farm in Kajiado, Zonken Group investing Sh41.6 billion in a 300-acre aloe vera processing plant in Baringo and Sh10.4 billion for a 72-acre grape vineyard.
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Brazil's would-be cocoa king aims to revolutionize industry with giant farm Reuters | 22 Apr 2025
The Schmidt Agricola family business is planning a 10,000-hectare cocoa farm in the Brazilian state of Bahia, where similar super-sized cocoa farms are also under development in partnership with large cocoa companies like Cargill and Barry Callebaut.
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DRC’s plans to dramatically increase palm oil production One Earth | 22 Apr 2025
Plantations et Huileries du Congo, the DRC’s leading palm oil producer, plans to exponentially increase its palm oil production, but this strategy could exacerbate land conflicts.
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Macron à Madagascar : un barrage à 600 millions d’euros pour éclairer 40 % de l’île La Tribune | 23 avr 2025
Côté malgache, la production agricole est un des enjeux majeurs de cette visite d'État d'Emmanuel Macron. Mais on parle de « co-investissement » au lieu de vente des terres agricoles. 10 000 hectares ont déjà été sécurísés pour la production agricole destinée aux pays membres de la Commission de l'Océan Indien (dont la France).
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Pourquoi faut-il des gendarmes pour replanter un domaine en litige au Cameroun ? Mongabay | 18 avr 2025
Les gendarmes camerounais ont, à la fin du mois de mars, fait usage de gaz lacrymogènes pour disperser des villageois qui manifestaient contre la replantation de palmiers à huile sur des terres en litige.
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Tshopo : La négligence gouvernementale face à la société Cap Congo accusée d’exploitation – plus de 740 morts et 75 000 déplacés ignorés Kilalo Press | 04 aout 2024
Derrière les violences intercommunautaires qui ont secoué Lubunga, se cache les activités d'une société libanaise, Cap Congo, qui est impliquée dans l’exploitation agricole intensive.
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Il boom dell'olio di palma in Congo: ecco cosa sta succedendo Corriere della Sera | 21 Apr 2025
La Repubblica Democratica del Congo (RDC) sta aumentando la coltivazione di olio di palma, con l'idea di diventare un Paese esportatore e di affacciarsi alla produzione di biocombustibili, rischiando però di mettere a repentaglio la sopravvivenza di intere comunità e di creare nuovi conflitti, in un Paese già ai primi posti delle classifiche mondiali per fame e insicurezza alimentare.
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