25 January 2021
A PROPOSAL to introduce a policy to prevent Namibians from owning more than one farm is unlawful and will not be implemented.
This is according to an update report on the implementation of the second national land conference issued by the office of prime minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila at the
15 January 2021
In Zimbabwe, the government is planning to resettle more than 180 farmers displaced by the Causeway Dam in Machiki. The water impoundment project at this farm in Mashonaland East Province has disrupted the farmers' activities.
In Zimbabwe, disputes over the Causeway Dam project may soon be resolved
10 January 2021
Main photo: Mdm Lee May La posing with a pumpkin from her garden. (Photo: Gaya Chandramohan)
SINGAPORE: Nine years ago, Mdm Lee May La, 64, nearly lost her life.
She had gone to Australia to attend her son’s graduation when she had a sudden onset of meningitis - an infection of the membranes
6 January 2021
Main photo: Bidco Africa group co-founder and chairman Vimal Shah said the uncultivated land mass could cater for a longer term perspective with wide open opportunities available for both countries. — Reuters pic
Malaysian palm oil companies have been invited to enter the African market by
6 January 2021
The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program, a multi-institution collaboration managed by Cornell University with support from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), announces its annual call for research
4 January 2021
A report by Global Witness has found that more than 100 Indonesian palm oil mills supplying agribusiness giants ADM and Bunge have been accused of land and human rights violations and environmental destruction.
Global Witness found that neither company is addressing the majority of these
1 January 2021
Main photo: A group representing Musang King durian farmers in Raub, Pahang today decried the district land office’s attempt to evict them ahead of their court appeal. — Picture from Facebook/Save Musang King Alliance
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 1 — A group representing Musang King durian farmers in Raub,
1 January 2021
Dr Sharon Brown, the President of the Malku Institute of Technology says the Institute will set up a farmers’ training centre at Walewale in the North East Region to train young people on commercial agriculture to enhance food security.
The Institute is an international organisation with its
29 December 2020
The people of the village of Aasikulam, Vavuniya stressed the hardships caused by the Sri Lankan Forest Department seizing their land earlier this month, with around 50 families stating they had been affected.
One of the villagers said, “We depend on the agriculture to maintain our livelihoods
24 December 2020
Five civil society organisations urged the government to take action against Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL), a Vietnamese agribusiness firm, for alleged land clearing activities on areas allocated to indigenous communities in Ratanakkiri province’s Andong Meas district.
However, provincial authorities
15 December 2020
Forced labour much more widespread than initially thought in China region that supplies a fifth of the world’s cotton
8 December 2020
The Kingdom of Lesotho recently signed on to the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) extension of the Smallholder Agriculture Development Project (SADP) to improve the livelihoods of vulnerable small-scale farmers. SADP II, the project’s second phase, targets youth and women to