Over 100,000 people, including thousands of TIAA holders, have taken action demanding that TIAA respect small farmers as part of a Campaign to Get TIAA Out of Forests and Farmland.
Addoha Group has successfully obtained a lease of 10,000 hectares of land in the communes of Dodel and Demette in the Podor department of northern Senegal for the production of rice
- Morocco World News
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25 April 2017
Les dirigeants de l'Union des producteurs agricoles se disent surpris et furieux d'apprendre que la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec et le Fonds de solidarité FTQ sont sur le point d'investir dans une société d'investissements qui achète des terres agricoles.
- Radio Canada
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24 April 2017
Olam Nigeria, in a bid to showcase its contributions to the rice revolution in Nigeria, took some journalists to its multimillion-dollar rice farm and milling facility at Ondorie, Rukubi in Nasarawa State
- The Guardian
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22 April 2017
Des terres cultivables sont rachetées par des sociétés, parfois spéculatives. Comment la financiarisation dépossède-t-elle les paysans ? Franceinfo vous révèle l'ampleur d'un phénomène qui trace son sillon en France.
A coalition of environmental, human rights and family farm organizations delivered a letter with over 100,000 signatures to pension fund management company TIAA, expressing concerns over the company’s investments in farmland and palm oil.
Protesters paid a visit to TIAA’s New York headquarters Thursday, urging the firm to stop investing in farmland and companies with ties to palm oil.
- Institutional Investor
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21 April 2017
As the World Bank Group’s spring meetings get underway in Washington, DC, the Bank’s complicity in corporate grabbing of land and natural resources around the world has become more blatant than ever
- Oakland Institute
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20 April 2017
Chinese state-owned Huangfanqu Farm and a Ukrainian partner are investing $50 million in a livestock farm in Koryukovka and a grains farm in Naumovka, as well as a 2,700 ha forest, where it plans to raise wild animals.
The Ugandan government has settled the tax obligations for Bidco since 2003, when it set up oil palm plantations in the country. If the government fails to provide more land, it may continue paying Bidco's taxes, which stood at Shs 12.4bn (US$3.4M) last year
Maxagro and PHI Group will consider raising capital for Maxagro to acquire additional farmland by taking Maxagro public in the U.S. and European Stock Markets.
- Globe Newswire
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19 April 2017
Large-scale land thieves are seizing, deforesting then selling public lands. At the same time, Brasilia is defunding enforcement, with rainforests and landless peasants the losers.