Grassroots organisations and community leaders from across the region have been organizing, mobilizing, raising their voices, and networking among each other to stop this destructive and violent occupation of their land.
If the plantation model in itself is understood as a violent, destructive, structurally racist and patriarchal one, can corporate gender-specific policies do more than cover up this violence and destruction?
The joint venture by Wilmar, Josovina Commodities and Bidco Africa Ltd is establishing its second palm oil project on Buvuma Island and targets to have 1,000ha under trees this year and 5,000ha in four years
- Food Business Africa
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09 Mar 2021
A briefing paper from an international network documents that Indonesia’s new “Food Estate Program” on the islands of Borneo, Sumatra and Papua threaten Indigenous sovereignty, forests and biodiversity, will cause hunger and contribute to the climate crisis.
- Biofuel Watch etc.
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04 Mar 2021
Walter Global Asset Management says farmland is increasingly attractive to institutional and private investors, which puts Bonnefield in a strong position when it comes to growing its portfolio of Canadian farmland
Indigenous peoples from the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon and non-governmental organizations from France and the US today filed a lawsuit in the Saint-Etienne court against global retail giant Groupe Casino over selling beef products linked to deforestation and land grabbing.
Stephen Johnston, director of Veripath Partners, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss why retail investors should look to Canadian farmland as an investment against inflation.
Green Scenery applauds the visit by President Maada Bio to the People of Sahn Malen Chiefdom and his promise to resolve the dispute between the aggrieved land owners and SOCFIN Agriculture Company as soon as possible.
- Green Scenery
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01 Mar 2021
In an order dated January 25, 2021, Honorable NCLT Bengaluru has initiated liquidation proceedings in the matter of Karuturi Global Ltd.
- Moneycontrol
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27 February 2021
An educational resource from Oakland Institute debunks myths used for privatizing land around the world, while providing facts on how customary tenure systems are critical to livelihoods and ensuring sustainable development.
- https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/our-land-why-reject-privatization-customary-land
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26 February 2021
One of those attacked by the company’s security guards died shortly after being badly beaten, tortured and detained.
- RIAO-RDC
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26 February 2021
Anyone can find the illegally invaded plots by typing the Portuguese equivalents for search terms like "forest", "native jungle" and "timber" into Facebook Marketplace's search tool.