Across the US, large investment firms are driving up farmland prices. In many cases, farmland is sold at prices multiple times the regional average. The cost increases have hit young and beginning farmers the hardest.
Farmland LP, a California-based investment firm, has announced the acquisition of three properties in Northern California’s Sacramento Delta across 2,625 acres for a combined price tag of $35.6 million.
Civil society groups working on land-related issues and women land rights defenders from different communities in Uganda are meeting in Kampala to devise ways to strengthen women’s participation and decision-making in land governance.
When the industrial agriculture investor Agilis Partners targeted the lands of Kiryandongo for its investments, residents never knew that the company would empoly several tactics to force them out. One of them was sexual violence.
The company says, once again, that it will expand its current 300 hectares under cultivation to 20,000 hectares
Groups petition the World Bank, US and Netherlands to support an independent investigation into human rights abuses committed against dozens of vulnerable people in Kiryandongo District, western Uganda, by agribusiness company, Agilis Partners.
La tension foncière s’envenime dans le Ndiael, au Sénégal, alimentée par l’affectation contestée de plus de milliers de terres à une entreprise étrangère au détriment des éleveurs et agriculteurs locaux.
The strategy aims to protect and restore approximately 135,000 hectares of natural forests in deforested landscapes and plant millions of trees in commercial tree farms on another approximately 135,000 hectares of previously deforested and degraded land in the Brazilian Cerrado.
La spoliation des terres de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal est dénoncée par Dr Mbaye Cissé, président du Réseau de la vallée contre l’accaparement des terres et la dégradation de l’environnement.
This week's episode of Reveal looks at how Arizona pension managers fueled a crisis by investing in an agribusiness deal that depleted local water supplies.
« Les terres sont le cœur battant de nos communautés rurales. Quand elles sont accaparées, ce sont des vies entières qui sont bouleversées », a déclaré Mbaye Cissé invitant le gouvernement sénégalais à prendre des mesures concrètes pour enquêter sur ces abus et rendre les terres à ceux qui en dépendent pour vivre.
L'ONG et la filiale de Natixis visent à développer l'offre de solutions climatiques fondées sur la nature, basée sur la gestion durable des terres de Mirova en Afrique, en Amérique latine et en Asie.
