Sur Reddit, un internaute a demandé "Hey Bill ! Pourquoi achetez-vous autant de terres agricoles ?". La réponse : "Mon groupe d'investissement a choisi de faire cela. Ce n'est pas lié au climat".
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.
Resolution by Cornell's University Assembly also calls on its main pension fund supplier to divest from agribusiness companies associated with deforestation, indigenous rights violations, and severe climate impacts.
- Cornell Daily Sun
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21 Mar 2021
André Arpaid, un oligarque pro-PHTK, a reçu plus de 8 600 hectares de terres agricoles pour la création de la zone franche agro-industrielle de Savane Diane, qui produira l’édulcorant stévia pour la transnationale Coca Cola.
Alors que les efforts de la communauté pour récupérer 100 000 hectares de leurs terres ancestrales, initialement saisies il y a plus d'un siècle pour des plantations de palmiers à huile, sont confrontés à une répression violente, des arrestations illégales et des meurtres, un nouveau rapport de l'Oakland Institute dévoile les noms des investisseurs finançant les plantations en RDC.
- Oakland Institute
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16 Mar 2021
AcreTrader is providing easy access for individuals and institutions to invest in farmland, allowing individuals to purchase shares of farmland in a matter of minutes online.
The deal size reflects the growing demand for farmland investments, as investors seek alternative assets amid heightened market volatility, fears of inflation, an emphasis on sustainability, and more.
One of those attacked by the company’s security guards died shortly after being badly beaten, tortured and detained.
- RIAO-RDC
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26 February 2021
The privatisation Uzbekistan’s cotton sector is seeing huge tracts of land being transferred to private operators for cotton cultivation, with farmers coerced into “voluntarily” giving up their land leases, with devastating effects on rural livelihoods.
- Apparel Insider
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19 February 2021
Le président de la société civile Basoko (rive Lokutu) dénonce les récentes arrestations et violences policières suite aux protestations pacifiques contre la société de plantation de palmiers à huile PHC.
- RIAO-RDC
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16 February 2021
President of the Civil Society of Basoko (Lokutu side) denounces the recent arrests and police violence following peaceful protests against the oil palm plantation company PHC.
- RIAO-RDC
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15 February 2021
The oil palm plantation company PHC is funded by European and US development banks and companies.
- RIAO-RDC
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14 February 2021