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    • Kempen raises insurer money for sustainable farmland fund
      • 12 October 2021

      Two Dutch insurance companies have invested in a fund buying farmland in Australia, Denmark, Portugal, New Zealand, and the US.

    • The true price of palm oil
      • Global Witness
      • 08 October 2021

      Global Witness goes undercover to investigate the growing threat facing Papua New Guinea’s communities and tropical forests from palm oil companies driving widespread deforestation and human rights abuses.

    • Treasury buys Kilombero Plantantion’s Mngeta farm
      • IPP
      • 07 October 2021

      The rice farm of KPL, a subsidiary of Guernsey-based Agrica Limited, was once touted as the best large scale commercial farming partnership with smallholder farmers until it defaulted in 2019.

    • Eni to help boost biofuel production in the Congo
      • Biofuels News
      • 06 October 2021

      The Italian firm Eni has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Republic of Congo to produce castor beans on 150,000 ha for biofuel

    • Chaoliang Group's Tanzania PTA construction project signed with Hunan Construction Engineering Group for USD 300 million
      • AgLook
      • 05 October 2021

      The Agricultural Products Industrial Park, Port and New City in Kilwa, Tanzania involves 80,000 acres of land, and the companies have obtained a land use certificate from the Tanzania government.

    • Indigenous Papuan women and the struggle for land
      • New Mandala
      • 05 October 2021

      There is a common and well-known philosophy throughout Papua, which represents the strong bond between women and nature; “Land is Mama”. We might suspect that it sounds like a romantic attachment of the stereotype of domestic work to one gender. However, it is reflected in what these Indigenous women, who fight for their land are doing.

    • Invisible hands? European corporations and the deforestation of the Amazon and Cerrado biomes
      • ENCO
      • 04 October 2021

      European firms are involved at different stages of the supply chain of soy, meat and metal – industries which are the main drivers of the deforestation of the Amazon and Cerrado regions in Brazil

    • Nigeria looks to revive ailing palm oil sector
      • AFP
      • 04 October 2021

      Government of Nigeria is pumping new money into the palm oil sector but the funds go to companies like the European giant Socfin, not small Nigerian farmers

    • Meet the coalition resisting the global push for land privatization in Brazil
      • Waging Nonviolence
      • 01 October 2021

      A campaign by U.S. and Brazilian activists challenging TIAA and other financial firms’ complicity in land grabs and deforestation in Brazil is scoring major victories.

    • Rural dispossession and resistance in Asia and Africa
      • Routledge
      • 30 September 2021

      Indigenous people, peasants and indentured labour/migrant workers, forest dwellers, pastoralists and nomads, and fisherfolk are the canaries in the neo-colonial mine of capitalist accumulation.

    • Audio: Dr Sophie Chao - Papua, food and racism
      • Talking Indonesia
      • 30 September 2021

      Despite the fact that Indonesia’s deforestation rate reached a historic low in 2020, the social, cultural, and ecological wellbeing of people whose livelihoods depend on forests has continued to suffer greatly. The indigenous Marind people in Papua, for example, have seen 1.2 million hectares of their lands and forests targeted for oil palm and timber plantations as part of the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate. This has led not only to food and water insecurity but also fundamental shifts in the food and eating habits of the Marind people. Why is this happening?

    • What is 'green land grabbing' - and why is it surging in Brazil?
      • Reuters
      • 30 September 2021

      In Brazil, green land grabbing allows owners to legally deforest a higher percentage of their actual farmland by counting the illegally acquired land as their set-aside natural reserve.

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