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Royal Romanian lands

OCCRP
10 June 2024

For Israeli businessman Benny Steinmetz, a dispute over a land deal he made in Romania has been the source of many of his recent legal woes, including arrests in Israel, Greece and, most recently, Cyprus.

The global race for water in the Arizona desert

Mother Jones
08 June 2024

This week's episode of Reveal looks at how Arizona pension managers fueled a crisis by investing in an agribusiness deal that depleted local water supplies.

Indonesia’s massive sugar-bioethanol project in South Papua causes locals to fear exploitation

Benar News
05 June 2024

Indonesia is going ahead with a project to convert millions of acres in Papua into a gigantic sugarcane plantation to produce bioethanol. But Indigenous communities and environmentalists worry that the project in South Papua’s Merauke regency will lead to land grabs, ecological damage, and the destruction of traditional livelihoods.

Open letter on Socfin's proposed divestment from SRC in Liberia

04 June 2024

Liberian, West African and international civil society organizations, communities and individuals are alarmed by news that SRC’s parent company, Socfin, is seeking to divest its shares in SRC without first settling its social, environmental, cultural, financial, and economic debts to affected communities.

AgDevCo secures $90mn in funding to further invest in African agribusiness

GAI
03 June 2024

The funding comes from the UK's CDC Group. Norfund and the US DFC.

The World Bank and land: some questions

Zimbabweland
03 June 2024

A new World Bank report on land in Africa acknowledges the failures of large land deals but still promotes large-scale land investments.

Land squeeze: The hidden battle for Africa’s soils

African Arguments
03 June 2024

Africa is at the forefront of the land grab crisis in the Global South, with nearly 1,000 large-scale land deals for agriculture recorded across the continent since 2000.

Investors reshaped Canadian home real estate. Something similar is happening in agriculture

CBC
03 June 2024

Experts say the economic forces now reshaping agriculture are similar to ones that have transformed residential real estate over the last two decades, with investors — from pension plans to well-to-do urban families — fuelling speculation and driving up real estate prices

Kazakhstan to build the world’s largest greenhouse

Times of Central Asia
03 June 2024

Russia's Agro-Industrial Holding Company has confirmed plans for the construction of a 500 ha greenhouse complex in the Keles district of the Turkestan region.

“After the dam, nothing is good”: How Ethiopia’s mega project devastated centuries of survival strategies

African Arguments
29 May 2024

The Bodi people have been decimated since the Gibe III dam came into operation and diverted the Omo River’s waters to large-scale irrigation schemes.

‘Saviour of carbon markets’ faces questions over African land rights

Source Material
29 May 2024

Carbon Done Right plans a stock market flotation and says it has secured access to 57,000 hectares in Sierra Leoone—but no leases have been registered with local authorities

Papuans head to Indonesian court to protect forests from palm oil

Al Jazeera
28 May 2024

Representatives of the Awyu and Moi communities from the Indonesian province of West Papua held traditional ceremonies outside the country’s Supreme Court calling for their traditional land and forests to be protected from palm oil plantations. The Awyu have also intervened in appeals taken by two other palm oil companies against a decision to cancel permits that it had previously issued for them to clear Indigenous lands.

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Royal Romanian lands

The global race for water in the Arizona desert

Indonesia’s massive sugar-bioethanol project in South Papua causes locals to fear exploitation

Open letter on Socfin's proposed divestment from SRC in Liberia

AgDevCo secures $90mn in funding to further invest in African agribusiness

The World Bank and land: some questions

Land squeeze: The hidden battle for Africa’s soils

Investors reshaped Canadian home real estate. Something similar is happening in agriculture

Kazakhstan to build the world’s largest greenhouse

“After the dam, nothing is good”: How Ethiopia’s mega project devastated centuries of survival strategies

‘Saviour of carbon markets’ faces questions over African land rights

Papuans head to Indonesian court to protect forests from palm oil

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