Palm oil giant Socapalm has finally handed over three sacred sites on 3 hectares of land but this is far short of the 30 hectares that the Mbonjo community is demanding.
TIAA has always insisted that its joint ventures with Brazilian sugar company Cosan invest responsibly. But leaked documents show they ignored a litany of red flags when buying farms in a region long known for land grabbing.
En la Cámara de Diputados brasileña, hegemonizada por la oposición al presidente Lula da Silva, se creó una Comisión Parlamentaria de Investigación para investigar las ocupaciones de tierras supuestamente promovidas y dirigidas por el Movimiento de los trabajadores rurales sin tierra (MST).
In the latest deal, private equity-backed Stone Axe Pastoral has acquired the Moyhu Wagyu aggregation in Victoria’s King Valley from tax reform pioneer Bob Officer for about $25 million.
Tres principales gestoras - Sembrador Capital, Toesca y Credicorp - se han adentrado en este negocio para aprovechar los beneficios del sector, que proyecta rentabilidades de hasta 12%.
Worsening drought has focused new attention on a Saudi-owned dairy company and whether Arizona should be doing more to protect its groundwater resources.
Fund II invests on a global scale in production assets across a range of crop types including coffee, almonds, apples, avocados, blueberries, and olive oil.
Mega-agribusiness corporations are using digital land registries as well as georeferencing technologies to deceitfully obtain property deeds that deprive Indigenous communities of their lands.
Le 13 avril 2023, les populations du village Apouh à Ngog situé dans l’arrondissement d’Edéa 1er, département de la Sanaga-Maritime, région du Littoral, ont paralysé les activités de production à l’usine de la Société camerounaise de palmeraies (Socapalm) d’Edéa.
There have been protests by the farmers that have plantations in the Forest Reserves as the State moves to hand them over to some foreign partners for oil palm plantations.
The Ondo State government has forcibly evicted over 10,000 farmers from the Oluwa Forest Reserve in the Odigbo Local Government Area of the state to make way for a large-scale plantation project by SAO Group.
Levantamento inédito do observatório De Olho nos Ruralistas identificou 1.692 fazendas com incidência em território indígena; por trás das sobreposições estão gigantes do agronegócio, indústria armamentista e investidores dos cinco continentes
Campesinos y campesinas de Honduras exigen aprobación del Decreto de Emergencia sobre el acceso y legalización de las tierras como una medida para contrarrestar el acaparamiento de tierras por parte de empresarios nacionales e internacionales.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative to Liberia, Mariatou Njie, wants the government to serve as a gatekeeper in the area of agricultural investment.
Aparece ante nosotros la clara imagen de la bifurcación entre mundos y no cabe la menor duda de cuál de ellos debe extinguirse. Las últimas movilizaciones populares en Francia de les Soulèvements de la Terre (los levantamientos de la Tierra) contra el acaparamiento de tierras y aguas, nos anuncian un giro drástico en este combate.
Sur le manque d’espaces vitaux, les populations de la Sanaga Maritime reprochent à l’exploitant, de s’être accaparé des aires propices à leurs activités de survie quotidienne, l’agriculture de subsistance et les aires pastorales notamment.
As the Malawi government hunts for land to establish mega farms in the country, Salima Sugar Company has offered 3,500 hectares of its 5,000 hectares that are lying idle towards the cause.
The Korean corporation POSCO International is in talks with the government of Uzbekistan for a US$196 million textile investment, that includes lands for the cultivation of cotton.
A new rush for “carbon removals” and “offsets” from land, forests and oceans is ramping up repression under the guise of providing “nature based solutions” to the ecological crises.
Ministry of Agriculture will finance state corporations to put 500,000 acres of their idle land under maize production even as the government seeks to lease out more chunks of unutilised farms to the private sector.
Empresas chinas acaparan terrenos de cultivo en Tehuacán, Tlacotepec de Benito Juárez y Tepanco de López, en México, para la producción de hortalizas que se llevan directamente a su país, informó el director de Desarrollo Rural de este municipio, Armando Ginés Bravo
In the face of increased land grabbing and speculation, the European Commission must put a common land governance framework on the political agenda in coming months to ensure a future for farmers and protect the well-being of citizens.
La entrada de fondos de inversión en el campo, la subida de precios, el descenso de la rentabilidad y la falta de mano de obra son algunos de los motivos que han porvocado la creación de la nueva plataforma SOS Rural, que aúna a más de 300 colectivos del campo con reivindicaciones comunes.
Contre l’accaparement des terres et l’inexorable diminution du nombre de fermes, des collectifs s’organisent. Carte blanche à l’un d’eux, le groupement foncier agricole Champs libres.
