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Jamaica to ramp up biodiesel production
- Biofuels News
- 01 December 2021
Minister Robert Montague said that the Ministry will be moving to secure some 5,000 acres of “unclaimed lands” to commence growing the castor plant.
Oil palm in Cameroon: 145 local community members against the Bolloré group in court
- La Provence
- 30 November 2021
Some 145 Cameroonians have asked the French courts to force the Bolloré group to provide documents to establish its links with the Cameroonian Company of Oil Palm Plantations (Socapalm) that they accuse of violating their rights.
Farmer investment group fights to save family farms as big corporations buy Tasmanian land
- ABC
- 27 November 2021
Increased foreign ownership and corporatisation of agriculture makes farm ownership challenging for young families in Australia
Fighting agrocolonialism in the Congo
- Cartoon movement
- 26 November 2021
This comic is based on field research conducted around the Feronia palm oil plantation in Tshopo province in north-east DR Congo as part of a British-Academy funded project on “environmental defenders and atmospheres of violence” hosted by the University of Sussex.
Agricultural productivity as performance: A tale of two Mozambican corridors
- The Elephant
- 26 November 2021
In order to attract capital, selected regions for development projects must dramatize their potential as places for investment, carefully selecting project locations and participants who will make compromises so as to conceal failure, virtually guaranteeing that the programme will be declared a success when the time comes for evaluation.
Milltrust Agricultural Investments acquired by Future Planet Capital
- GAI
- 24 November 2021
Milltrust Agricultural Investments, which owns farmlands in Australia and New Zealand, has been acquired by UK-based Future Planet Capital.
2021 Front Line Defenders award for human rights defenders at risk
- Front Line Defenders
- 24 November 2021
The 2021 Front Line Defenders Award Laureates include Aminata Fabba, Chair of the Malen Affected Land Owners Association (MALOA), a farmer and a grassroots land rights defender resisting SOCFIN and other companies in Sierra Leone.
How your 401(k) is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest
- Intercept
- 23 November 2021
The growing financialisation of Brazilian agribusiness is enabling foreign investment in the industry most responsible for deforestation - and land grabbing
Global commodity traders are fuelling land conflicts in Brazil’s Cerrado
- Global Witness
- 23 November 2021
ADM, Bunge and Cargill are dealing in conflict-tainted soy sourced from producers in the Cerrado, and in doing so are contributing to land conflict and alleged human rights abuses, in violation of their responsibilities under UN and OECD human rights standards.
Chinese-owned banana plantations fueling exploitation in Myanmar
- The Irrawaddy
- 23 November 2021
Landowners leasing their land to Chinese-run plantations are aware of the many drawbacks associated with banana farming, but still rent out their land, or are sometimes deceived into doing so, because of the limited market for traditional crops as well as the high rents they receive.
At a ‘certified’ palm oil plantation in Nigeria, soldiers and conflict over land
- Mongabay
- 22 November 2021
Certified by the RSPO in early 2020, Okomu’s motto is “responsible tropical agriculture.” But over the past decade, the company has been embroiled in disputes over land ownership and its use of Nigerian soldiers as a de facto security force for its plantations.
Farmers in Niari to benefit from Agri Resources cold storage facility
- AMA
- 21 November 2021
The facility in the Republic of Congo will cover the requirements for the company’s production, as well as for local farmers wishing to partake in the Agri Resources Congo outsourcing programme.