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Papua New Guinea realising rice dream
- Loop
- 17 Mar 2024
Rigo Rice has agreed to partner with the National Government and Wilmar International Limited in a joint venture to establish a large-scale commercial and irrigated rice farm on 5,000 ha
Canadians pay $180m to take control of Queensland egg farmer
- AFR
- 17 Mar 2024
Canada's public worker pension fund manager PSP Investments has made a significant stride in Australia's agricultural sector by acquiring a majority stake in Ellerslie Free Range Farms, a leading egg producer, for $180 million.
Tanzania’s richest man wants to be Africa’s biggest farmer — If everyone gets out of his way
- Forbes
- 16 Mar 2024
Globe-trotting billionaire Mo Dewji made a fortune in East Africa selling palm oil, rope, and soda. Now he says he's trying to acquire 100,000 ha in Rufiji and another part of Tanzania for sugarcane and cereal plantations.
Assert our right to land, exercise our right to resist! resist corporate landgrabs and imperialist aggression!
- PCFS
- 16 Mar 2024
The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty has adopted Day of the Landless in 2018 as an annual global action to give spotlight on the issue of global landlessness and highlight the land struggles of rural peoples in the Global South.
Investors see big returns on farmland — are they pricing out farmers?
- News Nation
- 15 Mar 2024
As the global demand for food rises and the supply of arable land shrinks, investment managers like Nuveen — a subsidiary of the largest global investor in agriculture, TIAA — see farmland as an attractive asset class.
Palm oil: a holding company has paid 142,000 euros to Cameroonians opposed to the Bolloré group
- AFP
- 13 Mar 2024
On Wednesday, the Luxembourg holding company Société financière des caoutchoucs (Socfin) paid €142,000 to Cameroonian plaintiffs, a fine imposed by the French courts for failing to produce documents that could establish its links with the French company Bolloré.
We're razing forests for palm oil plantations again
- Mongabay
- 13 Mar 2024
Palm oil companies in Indonesia, the world’s top producer of the commodity, cleared 30,000 ha of forest last year to make way for plantations. France-based TheTreeMap used plantation concession data from Greenpeace to identify 53 companies behind the plantation expansion and resulting deforestation, of which 20 had cleared carbon-rich peatlands.
Dozens of Cambodians charged in land dispute: activist
- AFP
- 13 Mar 2024
A Cambodian court has charged 29 people with illegally occupying state land following an incident in which authorities fired live rounds in a crackdown on a longstanding land dispute.
The Vicuñas and the $9,000 sweater
- Bloomberg
- 13 Mar 2024
Thirty years of providing the world’s finest wool to the fashion house Loro Piana has done almost nothing for the Indigenous people of the Peruvian Andes.
Skewed policies in favor of forest-destroying tycoon
- Pusaka Bentala Rakyat
- 13 Mar 2024
Two oil palm plantation companies related to the Fangiono family and Ciliandry Arky Abadi Group are set up in the land belong to the Moi Sigin and Moi Kelim Indigenous communities in Southwest Papua. Fangiono family is one of the richest palm oil tycoons in Indonesia reportedly have taking over 100,000 hectares of land forest areas in the Moi Sigin and Moi Kelim indigenous territory.
Loggers have ‘grabbed’ around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC
- Carbon Brief
- 12 Mar 2024
A new study identifies around 18m hectares of land in Cambodia, Colombia and the DRC that have been acquired in large-scale deals for logging, intensive agriculture, fossil-fuel extraction and mining.
Provincial authorities use weapons in Preah Vihear land dispute, nearly 30 residents detained
- CamboJa News
- 12 Mar 2024
At least 30 residents have been charged by provincial court in Cambodia for allegedly illegally occupying state land. The detention stems from an incident when authorities mounted a mass crackdown during a clash over a long-disputed land. The authorities said the land belonged to a rubber company called Seladamex, having received an economic land concession (ELC) from the state.

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Papua New Guinea realising rice dream

Canadians pay $180m to take control of Queensland egg farmer

Tanzania’s richest man wants to be Africa’s biggest farmer — If everyone gets out of his way

Assert our right to land, exercise our right to resist! resist corporate landgrabs and imperialist aggression!

Investors see big returns on farmland — are they pricing out farmers?

Palm oil: a holding company has paid 142,000 euros to Cameroonians opposed to the Bolloré group

We're razing forests for palm oil plantations again

Dozens of Cambodians charged in land dispute: activist

The Vicuñas and the $9,000 sweater

Skewed policies in favor of forest-destroying tycoon

Loggers have ‘grabbed’ around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC

Provincial authorities use weapons in Preah Vihear land dispute, nearly 30 residents detained

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