Land inequality remains the most enduring and destabilising injustice in Kenya, shaping who owns wealth, who accesses opportunities and who remains trapped in a cycle of marginalisation, with less than two per cent of Kenyans owning more than half of the country’s arable land.
Koloniale Vergangenheit, Landkonflikte, sexualisierte Gewalt: Der Schweizer Agrarkonzern Socfin steht seit Jahren massiv in der Kritik.ür den Live-Podcast in Bern hat Moderator Nico Meier drei starke Gästinnen auf die Bühne geladen.
A estratégia de reflorestamento e geração de créditos de carbono por meio de soluções baseadas na natureza busca mobilizar US$ 1 bilhão para proteger, restaurar e reflorestar aproximadamente 270.000 hectares de áreas degradadas. Até agora, 12.000 hectares foram restaurados no Cerrado.
O Projecto com a empresa Citrus Prime beneficiará de uma concessão de dez mil hectares de terra, cuja implementação deverá ocorrer em quatro fases, e com um orçamento de cerca de 150 milhões de dólares.
The strategy seeks to mobilize US$ 1 billion to protect, restore, and reforest approximately 270,000 hectares of degraded areas.
« 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The investor, Pan-Tanzania Agriculture Developments Limited, has been allocated 62,000 acres in Kilwa District, Lindi Region, where it will cultivate cassava and process it locally for export to China
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.
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.
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.
Large-scale land leases to Gulf and domestic agribusiness investors have undermined rural livelihoods by cutting off grazing routes and limiting access to land, primarily used for cultivating sorghum and other staple food crops, Nisrin Elamin explains.
Grassroots movements push for more inclusive climate governance as palm oil expansion threatens ancestral lands.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
C’est un cas qui illustre les limites des dispositions légales ainsi que les difficultés des communautés locales à rendre responsables les multinationales qui opèrent sur leur terrain.
As of the 26th November 2025, the partnership between Socfin and Earthworm Foundation has come to an end, Earthworm announces.
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
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.
Liberia's Blue Carbon deal has stalled. Other accords across Africa and elsewhere have also gone nowhere, while the UAE company itself appears to have fallen silent, according to a joint investigation by AFP and Code for Africa
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.
The project with MeTL will rehabilitate ageing tea estates, convert more than 1,000 hectares into organic plantations and upgrade processing factories to double production capacity. It will also establish at least 15,000 hectares of sisal plantations and a new 200-hectare macadamia plantation.
AGF says the $1 million equity investment from FrugalFP B.V. of the Netherlands will accelerate its development of Africa’s first Smart Circular Agro-Food & Carbon Innovation Vehicle, a 10,000-hectare integrated agroforestry and cassava–sweet potato processing initiative based in Ghana’s Kwahu Afram Plains.
