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The global farmland grab goes green

Carbon credits and net-zero pledges are fuelling a new round of farmland buying by billionaires and pension funds that will undermine real climate action.
Investors commit $159m to revolutionise Nigeria’s cassava, oil palm value chains

Fayus Group says it has committed over $100 million along with other investors under the Edo State Oil Palm Program to establish 46,000 ha of oil palm plantations over the next five years.
RDC: La justice ouvre un dossier contre Augustin Matata Ponyo

La justice congolaise a ouvert un dossier à charge contre le Sénateur Augustin Matata Ponyo pour sa gestion du parc agro-industriel de Bukanga Lonzo, apprend POLITICO.CD des sources exclusives.
UK supermarkets threaten Brazil boycott over Amazon deforestation

An open letter to the Brazilian National Congress, led by supermarket chains including Tesco and Sainsbury's, urges them to reject a proposed "land grabbers law" to allow the private occupation of public land.
Cambodia: Firm accused of grabbing indigenous community’s land in Stung Treng

Over 30 families from the Kreung indigenous community say that Singapore-based SK Plantations has bulldozed their forests and crops, demolished their homes and sent in security forces to stop them from planting.
Le Front marocain de soutien à la Palestine dénonce l'intention du groupe sioniste "Mehadrin" de louer des terres agricoles marocaines

Le Front dénonce l'accaparement des terres marocaines par "Mehadrin" qui compte louer 455 ha pour la production d'avocats
RDC: Entretien avec Mme Augin Nolofana, la maman d'un jeune villageois de Mwingi, qui aurait été tué par les agents de la société PHC/KKM

La mère de Efolafola Nisoni Manu, agé de 20 ans, parle de sa meurtre en février dernier aux mains des policiers et des agents de sécurité de la société de plantations de palmier à huile PHC/KKM.
Madagascar: Worse than the Daewoo project, the Agribusiness Strategy

The government of Madagascar has earmarked 4 million hectares for agropoles while at the same time pursuing a 60,000 ha land loan to Elite Agro LLC and revising the land law in favour of investors
Madagascar : Pire que le projet Daewoo, la stratégie nationale de l'agrobusiness

Une stratégie nationale de l’agribusiness ambitionne d’aménager 4 millions d’hectares d’agropoles à Madagascar
University of Iowa faculty rebuke farmland investors for fueling land grabs and corporate takeover of agriculture

The University of Iowa Faculty Senate voted 42 to 7 to pass a resolution calling on the university to hold the financial services provider TIAA accountable for its investments in global farmland.

Le Kazakhstan interdit ses terres arables aux étrangers sur fond de sentiment antichinois

Le président du Kazakhstan a promulgué jeudi une loi interdisant la vente de terres agricoles à des étrangers, sur fond de protestations dirigées contre les investissements de la Chine, pays voisin de cette ex-république soviétique d'Asie centrale.

14 May 2021 AFP

Degazetting and granting of 60,000 ha of prime forest for oil palm production project in Ocean Division, South Region of Cameroon

Evaluating the biodiversity impact of the Camvert project on the Campo Ma’an technical operations unit

11 May 2021 GDA

The global farmland grab goes green

Carbon credits and net-zero pledges are fuelling a new round of farmland buying by billionaires and pension funds that will undermine real climate action.

11 May 2021 GRAIN

Ethiopie: inauguration d'un parc agro-industriel intégré réalisé à hauteur de 215 millions $

Le parc agro-industriel intégré de Bulbula qui s’étend sur 271 hectares est « une démonstration de la vision de la prospérité du secteur agricole » portée par Addis-Abeba

10 May 2021 Agence Ecofin

Argentina: Hegemonía verde, fundaciones conservacionistas en el control del territorio

Las fundaciones operan en enclaves estratégicos con valor medioambiental

09 May 2021 El Cohete a la Luna

Investors commit $159m to revolutionise Nigeria’s cassava, oil palm value chains

Fayus Group says it has committed over $100 million along with other investors under the Edo State Oil Palm Program to establish 46,000 ha of oil palm plantations over the next five years.

09 May 2021 National Accord

RDC: La justice ouvre un dossier contre Augustin Matata Ponyo

La justice congolaise a ouvert un dossier à charge contre le Sénateur Augustin Matata Ponyo pour sa gestion du parc agro-industriel de Bukanga Lonzo, apprend POLITICO.CD des sources exclusives.

06 May 2021 Politico.CD

UK supermarkets threaten Brazil boycott over Amazon deforestation

An open letter to the Brazilian National Congress, led by supermarket chains including Tesco and Sainsbury's, urges them to reject a proposed "land grabbers law" to allow the private occupation of public land.

05 May 2021 Sky News

Brasil: Em carta ao Senado, bispos da Amazônia pedem a retirada de tramitação do PL da Grilagem

A nota pública assinada por mais de 60 bispos da região afirma que medida terá maior impacto na Amazônia

04 May 2021 CIMI

Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river

Botum Sakor National Park in southern Cambodia has lost at least 30,000 ha of forest over the past three decades. Environmental degradation go back to the late 1990s when Cambodian government began handing out economic land concessions for commercial plantations and tourist infrastructure.

04 May 2021 Mongabay

Cambodia: Firm accused of grabbing indigenous community’s land in Stung Treng

Over 30 families from the Kreung indigenous community say that Singapore-based SK Plantations has bulldozed their forests and crops, demolished their homes and sent in security forces to stop them from planting.

04 May 2021 Phnom Penh Post

Peruvian agribusinesses' interest in acquiring land in Colombia increases

Colombian Embassy in Peru says Peruvian agribusiness companies have a growing interest in investing in land in Colombia and at least five companies are set to do so in 2021 to grow blueberries and avocados

03 May 2021 Fresh Plaza

Le Front marocain de soutien à la Palestine dénonce l'intention du groupe sioniste "Mehadrin" de louer des terres agricoles marocaines

Le Front dénonce l'accaparement des terres marocaines par "Mehadrin" qui compte louer 455 ha pour la production d'avocats

03 May 2021 APS

Brasil: PL da Grilagem entra em votação no Congresso, avançando os tratores do agronegócio a favor da grilagem de terras

PL 510/2021, de autoria do senador Irajá Abreu, favorece a expansão dos latifúndios e facilita a regularização da grilagem de terras públicas.

01 May 2021 IHU

Holding companies to account

European companies, including oil and rubber giant Socfin, have long profited from human rights abuses, environmental destruction and climate breakdown. This briefing from Global Witness sets out proposals on how to change that under EU law,

30 Apr 2021 Global Witness

RDC: Entretien avec Mme Augin Nolofana, la maman d'un jeune villageois de Mwingi, qui aurait été tué par les agents de la société PHC/KKM

La mère de Efolafola Nisoni Manu, agé de 20 ans, parle de sa meurtre en février dernier aux mains des policiers et des agents de sécurité de la société de plantations de palmier à huile PHC/KKM.

30 Apr 2021 RIAO-RDC et GRAIN

Madagascar: Worse than the Daewoo project, the Agribusiness Strategy

The government of Madagascar has earmarked 4 million hectares for agropoles while at the same time pursuing a 60,000 ha land loan to Elite Agro LLC and revising the land law in favour of investors

29 Apr 2021 CRAAD-OI and TANY

Madagascar : Pire que le projet Daewoo, la stratégie nationale de l'agrobusiness

Une stratégie nationale de l’agribusiness ambitionne d’aménager 4 millions d’hectares d’agropoles à Madagascar

29 Apr 2021 CRAAD-OI et TANY

France - Grosse mobilisation citoyenne pour dénoncer les pratiques illégales des vergers de Fontorbe

Plus de 500 personnes se sont retrouvées pour une marche citoyenne contre l'accaparement des terres agricoles par le Domaine de Fontorbe en France

29 Apr 2021 Occitanie Tribune

University of Iowa faculty rebuke farmland investors for fueling land grabs and corporate takeover of agriculture

The University of Iowa Faculty Senate voted 42 to 7 to pass a resolution calling on the university to hold the financial services provider TIAA accountable for its investments in global farmland.

28 Apr 2021 ActionAidUSA

Ontario Teachers’ invests in four family-run orchards to create single 500 ha business

The newly merged entity in Victoria, Australia will include more than 500 hectares of orchards, water rights, two packing houses and additional land.

27 Apr 2021 GAI

Desmatamento da Amazônia com Bolsonaro visa a grilagem, aponta dirigente do MST

Passadas algumas décadas, o solo e o meio ambiente se exaurem e esses latifundiários avançam para fronteira agrícola com esse sistema de extração madeireira-desmatamento-queimada-grilagem.

27 Apr 2021 MST

Liberia: 'We don't want to threaten anybody'

Responding to an appeal from a parliamentary representative to rectify the current Liberia Agriculture Company concession agreement, Liberia's President Weah said his administration don't want to threaten anybody.

26 Apr 2021 New Dawn

Agri Resources Group, un acteur investi dans l’agriculture durable et la transformation agro-alimentaire en Afrique

Agri Resources, filiale du controverse Monaco Resources Group, a signé le 21 avril un protocole d’accord avec le Bénin pour la production du riz local sur 10 000 ha.

26 Apr 2021 Agence Ecofin

Mahi Pono and paraquat: The 2020 sequel

A farm in Maui owned by Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board sprayed some 240 gallons of Gramoxone (paraquat) eight times from January to May, 2020

23 Apr 2021 Politics on Maui