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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.

The Azuero Reforestation Project is expected to plant trees on 10,000 hectares of degraded tropical forest on the Azuero Peninsula in Panama that has been converted to low-density cattle ranchland over the last century.

“Probably the biggest growth is in working with large institutional investors at large pension funds and insurance companies, and also some quite large family offices,” which manages over 300,000 ha of farmland and timberland in the US, Europe and Australia.

Nigeria's Ekiti State Government has signed an MOU with Nigerian investment company – Cavista Holdings (owners of Agbeyewa Farms Limited) to establish a state-of-the-art cassava farm spanning 100,000 hectares within the State.