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04 Dec 2025
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Russia's VTB eyes US-owned firm in drive to build farm sector champion Reuters | 02 Dec 2025
Russia's second-largest bank VTB is in talks to buy a major agricultural producer owned by US-based NCH that farms on 290,000 hectares across several regions of Russia.
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Hawaii coffee deal brews suit for Michigan municipal retirement fund Detroit Free Press | 02 Dec 2025
A Lansing-based organisation that manages employee retirement plans for Michigan local governments is accused of losing $100mn on a coffee plantation venture in Hawaii and fraudulently misleading a lender into contributing $40mn to the project before abandoning it.
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Indigenous Dayak sound alarm as palm oil firm razes orangutan habitat in Borneo Mongabay | 02 Dec 2025
A palm oil company owned by Indonesian tycoon Alexander Thaslim has cleared nearly 1,500 hectares of rainforest since it began operating last year in Kapuas Hulu, a landlocked district deep in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province
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Abia, Presco/SIAT plan 10,000-hectare oil palm project National Ambassador | 02 Dec 2025
Presco/SIAT plans to start a large oil palm project covering 10,000 hectares of land across 52 communities in Abia State, Nigeria, and will be sending a technical team to choose suitable sites, study both new and existing farmland, and collect soil samples for testing.
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Edo govt denies revoking Presco’s 13,545 hectares of land Business Day | 01 Dec 2025
Six days after the controversial revocation of Certificate of Occupancy of about 13,545 hectares of land belonging to Presco Plc by the Edo State Government, Governor, Monday Okpebholo has said as an investor he cannot be the one sending investors out of the state.
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$444 million Aussie agricultural portfolio changes hands Weekly Times | 01 Dec 2025
An ASX-listed real estate funds manager has pulled off a second major farmland coup in as many weeks, snapping up a portfolio of 22 properties in an off-market deal.
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Honduras: Garífuna resist land grabs, Indigenous voices sidelined at COP30 LAB | 30 Nov 2025
Grassroots movements push for more inclusive climate governance as palm oil expansion threatens ancestral lands.
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Zamfara pushes for agricultural investments at Africa Investment Forum in Morocco Zagazola | 29 Nov 2025
On the sidelines of an AfDB investment forum in Morocco, Nigeria's Zamfara State signed an MOU with Nigeria's Ministry of Finance under which it will provide arable land, infrastructure and policy incentives while the Ministry mobilises investors.
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Bolloré business empire under scrutiny as Vivendi court decision looms RFI | 27 Nov 2025
A long-running legal battle over the French media group Vivendi has coincided with growing scrutiny of the Bolloré family’s wider business interests by anti-corruption groups.
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Socfin's maze in Cameroon | 27 Nov 2025
This is a case that illustrates the limits of legal provisions, as well as the difficulties faced by local communities in holding the multinationals operating on their land to account.
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The partnership between Socfin and Earthworm Foundation has come to an end Earthworm Foundation | 26 Nov 2025
As of the 26th November 2025, the partnership between Socfin and Earthworm Foundation has come to an end, Earthworm announces.
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Mexico wins arbitration case against U.S. company for 2.7 billion dollars MPA | 26 Nov 2025
Mexico obtained a decisive ruling in its favor in the international arbitration initiated by the US company Amway, which claimed more than 2.7 billion dollars in damages after the government returned 160 ha of farmland it was operating on to the community of San Isidro.
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Rasheed Sarumi to gain US$46M in Presco palm oil deal Milling ME&A | 18 Aug 2025
Rasheed Sarumi’s US$46-million gain from Presco’s acquisition of Saro Oil Palm underscores the deepening connection between Nigeria’s corporate elite and the country’s agricultural trajectory, while reigniting debate over governance standards, inclusive growth, and fair wealth distribution within the sector.
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Derrière les tomates du Mont-Saint-Michel, le système d’une multinationale hollandaise Basta! | 02 dec 2025
« Ce type de grosses multinationales prend le pouvoir sur nos territoires », dénonce l’eurodéputé normand écologiste David Cormand, qui s’est rendu sur place lors d’une mobilisation.
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Madagascar - Le retour de la prescription acquisitive envisagé L'Express de Madagascar | 29 nov 2025
La prescription acquisitive pourrait prochainement être rétablie à Madagascar, après presque un an de suspension. Le gouvernement prévoit un encadrement strict pour éviter les abus et sécuriser les droits fonciers.
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« Coût financier et humain énorme » : « Médor » dénonce une procédure-bâillon de la part de Socfin Le Soir | 27 nov 2025
Le média indépendant belge « Médor » a dénoncé une procédure-bâillon de la part de l’entreprise Socfin (Société financière des caoutchoucs), détenue par Hubert Fabri et le groupe Bolloré.
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Communiqué : Quand Socfin (Bolloré et Fabri) attaque Médor MÉDOR | 27 nov 2025
Suite à la publication en 2019 d’une enquête « Socfin/Cambodge : les terres rouges des Bunongs perdues à jamais », l’entreprise Socfin (détenue par le groupe Bolloré et Hubert Fabri) a attaqué Médor devant la justice pénale luxembourgeoise. Six ans, des milliers d’euros, des auditions, des inculpations et des heures de défense et de stress plus tard, la justice a ordonné un non-lieu, le 30 avril dernier. Médor dénonce une procédure-bâillon.
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Québec : Nouvelles restrictions pour l’acquisition d’une terre agricole La Terre | 26 nov 2025
Depuis décembre 2024, la Loi sur la protection du territoire et des activités agricoles au Québec interdit l’acquisition d’une terre agricole de 4 ha ou plus située en zone agricole par un fonds d’investissement
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Signature d’un bail emphytéotique de plus 102 000 hectares avec Aforest Congo ACI | 19 aout 2025
La République du Congo et la société Aforest Congo ont signé un bail emphytéotique portant sur une superficie de 102 560 hectares en vue de la réalisation d’un projet de plantations forestières et agroforestières industrielles à base d’acacia, d’eucalyptus et d’autres essences
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Estados Unidos frena compras extranjeras para proteger su seguridad agrícola Semana | 01 dic 2025
El gobierno de EE. UU. anunció un plan para prohibir que inversionistas extranjeros vinculados a países considerados adversarios, principalmente China, compren tierras agrícolas, y evalúa recuperar predios ya vendidos, consolidando la agricultura como un asunto de seguridad nacional.
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Grilagem de terras, violência e morte das águas: relatório aponta os modos de expansão do agronegócio no Oeste da Bahia Brasil de Fato | 25 Nov 2025
No Oeste da Bahia, a atuação de empresas nacionais e transnacionais do agronegócio tem ampliado a grilagem de terras e a violência contra comunidades rurais. É o que aponta o relatório Especulação Financeira e Impactos Socioambientais do Agronegócio no Cerrado da Bahia, produzido pela Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos, com apoio da Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT) e Amigos da Terra.
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SLC produz soja em terras de acusado de grilagem no Piauí Repórter Brasil | 19 Nov 2025
Empresários em posse da área respondem a ações judiciais por sobreposição a territórios indígenas e de comunidade tradicional; SLC assinou contrato para produzir até 2039 na fazenda que engloba a área em disputa
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