Indonesia is the world's largest exporter of palm oil, and Papua is its newest frontier. A visual investigation suggests fires have been deliberately set on the land by Korean palm oil giant that has been buying up swathes of Asia's largest remaining rainforests for their plantations.
As development banks gather for a global summit, organisations condemn the financing of corporate agribusiness and plantations, and call for public investment in agroecology and local food systems to tackle the climate crisis.
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12 November 2020
Macquarie Group's $300 million takeover bid for a real estate investment trust, which owns vast farms across Australia, could pave the way for more farming deals involving the investment banking powerhouse and the fresh food giant Costa Group.
European MPs issue an interparliamentary statement on the “Finance in common summit”, calling on public development banks to stop "harmful investments", such as those in the oil palm plantation company Feronia in the DR Congo.
- European MPs
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10 November 2020
Villagers of Illushi community want Skaff International Agro Farms Limited to vacate its operations for the interest of peace, alleging that it illegally acquired the community's lands.
- Sahara Reporters
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09 November 2020
The project 3,000 ha seed breeding project in Mazowe will produce seedlings for local farmers to grow apples, grapes, bananas, peaches and pears under contract farming.
- Daily news
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09 November 2020
Macquarie Group, one of the world’s largest alternative asset managers, has announced that one of its agricultural funds will seek to acquire all of the issued securities in Australian listed farmland REIT Vitalharvest
- Investable Universe
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09 November 2020
The Sierra Leone Land Alliance has released a report critical of the situation land ownership and acquisition in the country, with particular emphasis on the Western area.
- Politico SL
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07 November 2020
Two sugarcane companies have begun clearing thousands of hectares in disputed sections of Uganda’s Bugoma Forest. The National Forestry Authority (NFA) is challenging land titles granted to Hoima Sugar Limited and MZ Agencies, but a series of court defeats has forced the authority to remove its guards.
- Mongabay
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05 November 2020
Some communities where Okomu Palm Oil Plc allegedly acquired farmland to expand its operations have cried out over an alleged forceful occupation of their land.
- Vanguard
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03 November 2020
Direct ownership of the land located in different climatic regions of the world enables the Unifrutti to produce and distribute fresh fruit that is always in season to all markets.
- Carlyle Group
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02 November 2020
Spanish companies operating in Morocco keep a low profile and avoid the media spotlight, as they don't want to be accused of relocating their agricultural business to the third world.
- HortiDaily
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02 November 2020