Indonesia sits at the heart of the global palm oil trade. In 2002, one company PT Erasakti Wira Forestama (EWF) offered villagers in Batanghari, Jambi province a one-time payment for their land. Peatlands were converted to plantations — and the repercussions of the decision are still felt today.
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&Green Fund, with backing from the Norwegian government and Unilever, makes its first investment in a Brazilian farming company that grows soybeans and grains and raises cattle on 50,000 hectares in Mato Grosso.
Article examines the processes and actors involved and the connections that global financial capital makes in order to access lands and agricultural production in the Brazilian Cerrado.
In connection with the acquisition, the Danish company expands the Group’s arable land bank in Poland through a 20-year lease agreement for 530 hectares of land nearby.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine will lift restrictions on farmland purchases by foreigners only after it provides domestic farmers with the opportunity to take loans at low rates.
Bottom-up mobilizations for more sustainable and socially just uses of the environment occur worldwide across all income groups, testifying to the global existence of various forms of grassroots environmentalism as a promising force for sustainability.
Funds managed by North American farmland and timber giant Hancock Natural Resource Group are poised to snap up two almond properties worth around $12 million in the NSW Riverina and South Australia’s Riverland.
The complaint to the independent watchdog and accountability mechanism of the Wolrd Bank relates to a series of gross human rights abuses perpetrated against the indigenous people in SRC’s concession areas.
