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Zelensky enacts law to launch farmland market in Ukraine
- UNIAN
- 24 May 2021
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has enacted a law on deregulation of land relations.
Two Lao workers die from suspected chemical use at Chinese-owned banana farm
- RFA
- 24 May 2021
Illnesses and deaths have long been reported among workers at foreign-owned banana farms in Laos.
The untold story of Feronia Inc's failed rice operations in the DR Congo
- GRAIN
- 18 May 2021
New information indicates that Feronia's $15 million rice operations were taken over by a politically connected Belgian-Congolese businessman when they mysteriously vanished from the company's books in 2017.
Global agribusiness continues to displace rural communities
- FUF
- 18 May 2021
In Kiryandongo, Uganda, three foreign multinational companies, with support from the Ugandan government, have facilitated violent land grabs leading to the displacement of thousands of families.
Auscott sold to Canadian-backed Australian Food and Fibre
- Farm Online
- 17 May 2021
PSP, one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, now adds a further 40,000 hectares to its large farmland holdings in New South Wales.
Who owns Australia?
- Guardian
- 16 May 2021
Complex web of data reveals large swathes of country controlled by small number of billionaires and large companies
Degazetting and granting of 60,000 ha of prime forest for oil palm production project in Ocean Division, South Region of Cameroon
- GDA
- 11 May 2021
Evaluating the biodiversity impact of the Camvert project on the Campo Ma’an technical operations unit
The global farmland grab goes green
- GRAIN
- 11 May 2021
Carbon credits and net-zero pledges are fuelling a new round of farmland buying by billionaires and pension funds that will undermine real climate action.
CDC Group commits $100 million to ETG, supporting the lives of farmers across Africa and Asia
- CDC Group
- 10 May 2021
CDC's commitment to company that operates on large swaths of farmland in Africa marks one of its largest corporate debt investments ever.
Investors commit $159m to revolutionise Nigeria’s cassava, oil palm value chains
- National Accord
- 09 May 2021
Fayus Group says it has committed over $100 million along with other investors under the Edo State Oil Palm Program to establish 46,000 ha of oil palm plantations over the next five years.
UK supermarkets threaten Brazil boycott over Amazon deforestation
- Sky News
- 05 May 2021
An open letter to the Brazilian National Congress, led by supermarket chains including Tesco and Sainsbury's, urges them to reject a proposed "land grabbers law" to allow the private occupation of public land.
Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river
- Mongabay
- 04 May 2021
Botum Sakor National Park in southern Cambodia has lost at least 30,000 ha of forest over the past three decades. Environmental degradation go back to the late 1990s when Cambodian government began handing out economic land concessions for commercial plantations and tourist infrastructure.