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29 May 2025
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Land dispute escalates between palm oil company and Cameroon’s Apouh community Global Voices | 27 May 2025
A long-standing land dispute has recently escalated between a subsidiary of the European holding company Socfin and the Indigenous Apouh à Ngog (Apouh) community in Cameroon’s Littoral region.
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Qatar’s Al Rayyan Agricultural eyes major investment in Algeria’s agri-food sector Dzair Tube | 27 May 2025
During the exchange, the Qatari representatives expressed to the Algerian Investment Promotion Agency their strong interest in entering the Algerian market and affirmed their serious intent to launch a large-scale agricultural investment project.
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Romania's DN Agrar to double milk production capacity by 2030 SeeNews | 26 May 2025
The Dutch-owned company that already holds 16,000 cows and more than 7,000 ha of cultivated land is planning the construction of a new 5,000-head cattle facility.
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Hong Kong tycoon snares carbon project in outback WA AFR | 26 May 2025
One of Hong Kong’s wealthiest tycoons, Li Ka-Shing, whose interests include energy and agricultural investments in this country, has forged into the carbon market, acquiring a vast Western Australian landholding earmarked for a ‘regenerative agriculture’ project.
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Kenya: Investor embroiled in legal battles over Galana Kulalu land arrested The Standard | 26 May 2025
The director of Sahal Agro-Holdings Limited, who is embroiled in a fierce legal battle over a 100,000-acre parcel of land at Galana Kulalu, was arrested on Friday.
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European, African bishops demand end to land grabs and exploitation OSV News | 23 May 2025
Catholic bishops from Europe and Africa have issued a strong joint statement warning that Africa is once again becoming a “battleground for external interests” — particularly over land, resources and Europe’s climate agenda.
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Carbon Done Right looks elsewhere to expand African ARR project, after BP declines option QCI | 22 May 2025
Carbon Done Right Developments has dropped a 10,000 ha project in Ghana, put a 32,000 ha project in Sierra Leone on hold and is looking for new investors to expand its 25,000 ha rewilding project in Sierra Leone, after BP Carbon Trading did not exercise an option to pre-purchase carbon credits.
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Egypt: El-Sisi encourages private sector investment in land cultivation during harvesting season event Ahram Online | 21 May 2025
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is calling on the private sector to invest in the 336,000 hectares that the Future of Egypt for Sustainable Development Authority plans to complete to make the land suitable for agriculture.
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Investor gets ADC nod to grow crops in vast Galana farm The Star | 12 May 2024
The Nyumba Foundation has received the go-ahead to grow edible oil crops on 40,000 acres Agricultural Development Corporation land in Kilifi county.
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Agriculture en Afrique : Dangote annonce un grand projet La Nouvelle Tribune | 26 mai 2025
Le groupe Dangote va construire une nouvelle rizerie au Nigeria où il cherche à occuper tout l’écosystème, du champ à la transformation.
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Un Agropole de 10 000 hectares verra le jour à Madagascar Orange.mg | 26 mai 2025
Le Secrétariat d’État chargé de la Souveraineté alimentaire et le groupe israélien LR Group ont signé le 25 mai 2025 une convention de partenariat portant sur la mise en place d’un Agropole d’une superficie de 10 000 hectares sur le territoire malgache.
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« Poursuites-bâillons » : victoire des ONG face à Fabri et Bolloré CNCD-11.11.11 | 26 mai 2025
Après une longue bataille judiciaire, les ONG et militant·es poursuivi·es diffamation ont été totalement acquittées. Le jugement rendu par la justice luxembourgeoise est très net : les accusations étaient infondées.
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El empresario Eduardo Elsztain y el banco Santander, señalados por la deforestación de miles de hectáreas de bosque en Salta elDiarioAR | 26 may 2025
Cresud, con financiación de Santander, ha deforestado más de 170.000 hectáreas en Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia y Paraguay desde 2001, según informe de Global Witness.
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La mafia del desmonte El cohete a la luna | 25 may 2025
En Argentina, denuncia a la Justicia Federal presenta probas que funciona desde hace décadas una maquinaria público-privada diseñada para desmontar, saquear y ocultar legalizando el ilegal a escalas industriales a empresas nacionales y extranjeras.
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Forestales alertan que nuevo decreto abre la puerta a desmontes y apropiación de tierras El Deber | 25 may 2025
Nuevo decreto en Bolivia disminuye la responsabilidad del Estado sobre tierras fiscales, facilitando la legalización de ocupaciones ilegales, permitiendo que terceros accedan a la propiedad de tierras fiscales sin un proceso transparente ni justo con el avance del desmonte.
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Capítulo Final: J&F compra participação da Paper Excellence na Eldorado e encerra disputa Consultor Jurídico | 15 May 2025
A holding brasileira J&F paga US$ 2,64 bilhões para a indonésia Paper Excellence, recuperando o controle total da Eldorado Brasil Celulosa e pondo fim há 8 anos da maior briga empresarial do Brasil. Uma das alegações para anulação da compra foi a falta de autorizações do Incra e do Congresso Nacional para assumir terras no país, exigência da Lei de acesso à terras por estrangeiros.
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