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Lutte contre la spoliation foncière : Les recettes de la Société civile

Le cadre de réflexion et d’action sur le foncier au Sénégal (CRAFS) suggère l’institutionnalisation du contrôle citoyen sur le foncier à tous les niveaux, y compris à l’échelle villageoise
Case study casts doubt over ESG claims of Canadian pension fund PSP’s major agriculture investment on Maui

Report finds the Canadian based pension plan is not living up to its own environmental, social responsibility, and corporate governance principles, resulting in adverse impacts on Maui’s environment and residents.
Camvert and the forest peril in the Congo basin

Some local communities have joined NGOs to denounce the establishment of Camvert, a project to develop the largest palm plantation in Central Africa on 50,000 hectares of forest.
Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why?

The relationship to land – who owns it, who works it and who cares for it – reflects obscene levels of inequality and legacies of colonialism and white supremacy in the United States, and also the world.
Why is the Food Systems Summit silent on corporate land grabs?

For farmers in Asia as elsewhere, land ownership and effective control is the key to any radical transformation of the food systems and for attempts to achieve genuine sustainable development to really matter.
Key Cerrado deforesters in 2020 linked to the clearing of more than 110,000 hectares

A new report by Chain Reaction Research presents data on specific actors linked to Cerrado deforestation in 2020, including the quantified risk exposure of the largest soy traders, meatpackers, and retailers.
Abducted villagers found at Kiryandongo district police, charged and released on police bond

The abduction of villagers is part of the wider use of violence orchestrated by the police who are working for investors including Great Seasons SMC Limited and it is linked to the community’s resistance to a land grab.
Stop TIAA’s corporate investment in land grabs that foster displacement and threaten biological and ecological destruction.

Resolution adopted by the Professional Staff Congress, a union that represents 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York and the CUNY Research Foundation.
Sénégal : Birahim Seck du Forum Civil invite Macky Sall à revoir le décret d’affectation

Le Coordonnateur National du Forum Civil s’engage à jouer sa partition dans l’affaire des 20 000 hectares de terres du Ndiaél affectés à des investisseurs étrangers.
Manifestation pacifique contre l’accaparement des terres paysannes en Haïti

Plusieurs centaines de paysannes et paysans ont marché, le samedi 20 mars 2021, depuis la localité de Papaye jusqu’au centre-ville de Hinche, pour continuer de dénoncer les actes d’accaparement de leurs terres au profit des multinationales

Saint-Louis : un aménagement de 2.500 ha du PDIDAS bientôt opérationnel (coordonnatrice)

Un aménagement hydro-agricole de 2.500 hectares réalisé dans la zone de couverture du Projet de développement inclusif et durable de l’agrobusiness au Sénégal (Banque mondiale) va être bientôt opérationnel

14 Apr 2021 APS

Australia: Unnamed European pension fund backs Warakirri farmland fund

An unnamed European pension fund has become the cornerstone investor in the just-launched, close-ended Warakirri Farmland Fund, which aims to raise up to €320m in equity.

13 Apr 2021 IPE

New palm oil frontier sparks scramble for land in the Brazilian Amazon

Cultivation of oil palm has surged in Brazil’s northern state of Roraima over the last decade, fueled by an ambitious push towards biofuels. While palm oil companies claim they do not deforest, critics say they are contributing to a surge in demand for cleared land in this region, driving cattle ranchers, soy farmers and land speculators deeper into the forest.

12 Apr 2021 Mongabay

La agroindustria rodea el territorio indígena Xingu en Brasil

Los habitantes de las tierras indígenas de Baú, Menkragnoti y Panará dicen que la pavimentación de la carretera ha creado todo tipo de problemas, impulsando el acaparamiento de tierras, la deforestación y los incendios forestales en la parte norte de la cuenca del Xingu.

09 Apr 2021 IPS

New Zealand's Fonterra completes sale of two China farms

Fonterra has completed the sale of its two wholly owned farming hubs in China where it will now focus on creating value from its New Zealand farmers’ milk

08 Apr 2021 The Cattle Site

Lutte contre la spoliation foncière : Les recettes de la Société civile

Le cadre de réflexion et d’action sur le foncier au Sénégal (CRAFS) suggère l’institutionnalisation du contrôle citoyen sur le foncier à tous les niveaux, y compris à l’échelle villageoise

08 Apr 2021 Sud Online

The AAF fund's exit from Feronia marks the end of AFD Group's indirect participation in the company

The French development bank, AFD Group, says it no longer has any connection with PHC - Feronia, since the DRC oil palm plantation company was taken over by the Straight KKM2 fund.

08 Apr 2021 Proparco

Madagascar : Projet ELITE AGRO LLC dans le Bas-Mangoky

Décision du Conseil des Ministres malgache du 7 avril 2021 (avec extrait en français)

07 Apr 2021 Gouvt de Madagascar

Agricultural investment firm sees opportunity in Africa’s ‘incomplete value chains’

The Silverlands I portfolio, the continent’s largest agricultural investment fund, includes primary production and beef and poultry assets across South Africa, Namibia, eSwatini, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique.

07 Apr 2021 HowWeMadeItInAfrica

¿Por qué Bill Gates se ha convertido en el mayor propietario privado de tierras agrícolas en EEUU?

El cofundador de Microsoft, empresario y filántropo, Bill Gates, ha acumulado la mayor cantidad de tierras agrícolas privadas en EEUU: alrededor de 98.000 hectáreas.

07 Apr 2021 Red Eco Alternativo

Case study casts doubt over ESG claims of Canadian pension fund PSP’s major agriculture investment on Maui

Report finds the Canadian based pension plan is not living up to its own environmental, social responsibility, and corporate governance principles, resulting in adverse impacts on Maui’s environment and residents.

06 Apr 2021 Responsible Markets

Ancaman terhadap komunitas yang bergantung pada hutan di Indonesia dan kisah-kisah perlawanannya

Sebuah kompilasi dari WRM mengenai ancaman yang dihadapi komunitas yang bergantung pada hutan di Indonesia dan perlawanan mereka menghadapinya.

06 Apr 2021 WRM

Attacks on forest-dependent communities in Indonesia and resistance stories

A compilation by World Rainforest Movement on the threats faced by fores-dependent communities in Indonesia and their resistance.

06 Apr 2021 WRM

Ouargla: vingt-mille hectares de terres consacrées à l’agro-industrie

Menée par la société d’investissement "Al-Filaha-ATLAS", fruit d’un partenariat privé algéro-turc, cette expérience vise à construire une plate-forme de production de blé, de légumineuses, de betterave et de tournesol avec des procédés industriels modernes répondant aux standards internationaux dans le cadre de la mise en valeur des terres agricoles

06 Apr 2021 APS

State pension money invested in ‘questionable’ Congo palm oil company

The South African Government Employees Pension Fund and the country's Public Investment Corporation are invested in a Congolese palm oil business linked to past human rights abuses and land expropriation.

06 Apr 2021 Sunday Times

PostNL pension fund makes farmland allocation over returns, SDGs

A first €20m has already been invested in olive orchards in Portugal, with possible investments in Danish organic vegetable farming, American potatoes, barley and wheat as well as kiwi fruit in New Zealand.

06 Apr 2021 IPE

Camvert and the forest peril in the Congo basin

Some local communities have joined NGOs to denounce the establishment of Camvert, a project to develop the largest palm plantation in Central Africa on 50,000 hectares of forest.

06 Apr 2021 Afrik21

Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why?

The relationship to land – who owns it, who works it and who cares for it – reflects obscene levels of inequality and legacies of colonialism and white supremacy in the United States, and also the world.

05 Apr 2021 The Guardian

Planned deforestation threatens Indigenous land, intact forest landscapes in West Papua

New report from Greenpeace International‘Licence to Clear’ shows systematic violations of permitting regulations as plantations were pushed into forest areas. Since 2000, forest estate land released for plantations in Papua Province has totalled almost a million hectares.

05 Apr 2021 Greenpeace

Honduras: narcotráfico y ganadería disparan deforestación en la Reserva de Biosfera de Río Plátano

“El acaparamiento de tierra y la ocupación ilegal es algo que no podemos ocultar, y esto viene a obstaculizar los procesos ambientales que realizan las comunidades a través de los planes de manejo forestal”

05 Apr 2021 Mongabay

Bolivia: Alcides Vadillo: "Nuestros agroindustriales cruceños coinciden con los colonizadores o interculturales en la forma de desarrollo"

El director de la Regional Oriente de la Fundación TIERRA habla de la problemática que termina incidiendo en la explosión de los incendios forestales, que podría ser un problema este 2021.

04 Apr 2021 F. Tierra

Australia: Unnamed European pension fund backs Warakirri farmland fund

An unnamed European pension fund has become the cornerstone investor in the just-launched, close-ended Warakirri Farmland Fund, which aims to raise up to €320m in equity.

13 Apr 2021 IPE