Cuyama Valley farmers and ranchers have launched a boycott of supermarket carrots to protest a water rights lawsuit that was filed against them by Bolthouse and Grimmway farms, major carrot farmers in the valley.
An application for a Swiss company to buy an Otago sheep farm to convert to forestry for carbon credits has been declined, making it one of the first decisions to be made under updated legislation.
- Otago Daily Times
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02 Oct 2023
French logistics giant Bolloré SE has been deemed an unethical investment by some of Switzerland’s most powerful pension funds.
Local communities near Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) in Margibi County are seemingly winning a case of ‘land grab’ and ‘gross human rights violations’ brought against SRC; as its parent company, Bollore Group has been blacklisted by Switzerland’s largest public pension funds.
- Liberian Observer
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28 Sep 2023
More than a decade after subsidiaries of multinational rubber firm Socfin Group forcibly cleared and seized the farms, burial grounds and sacred forests of Bunong indigenous communities in Mondulkiri province, Cambodia, the company now seeks to collect tens of thousands of dollars from these farmers for the cost of “land preparation” and other fees.
On its 10th anniversary, the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) is collaborating with several leading research hubs in organizing an International Conference on Global Land Grabbing on 19-21 March 2024 in Bogota, Colombia.
Pakistan's army is taking over vast swaths of government-owned land to grow food but the moves are fanning concerns about the powerful military's pervasive presence in a country facing economic collapse.
A decade after transnational palm oil company Wilmar took control of a derelict oil palm plantation, local residents continue to fight for the farmlands, forests and rivers they use.
The board of Australia’s largest fruit and vegetable company, Costa Group, has agreed to a cut-price $1.5 billion takeover offer from a consortium headed by private equity firm Paine Schwartz Partners.
Arab News speaks exclusively to CEO of FonGrow, spearheading agriculture projects under new investment body, who says Pakistan is in talks with Saudi companies like Al-Dahara, Saleh and Al-Khorayef for investment in corporate farming.
Financial players are moving aggressively to snatch up lands around the world with access to water for irrigation. Their strategy is to pump as much water as they can and as fast as they can into the production of crops that reap high prices in export markets.
From Ghana to Nigeria and Ivory Coast, communities impacted by the operations of Belgium’s SIAT Group seek an end to a decade-long conflict tied to SIAT’s extensive plantations.
- FIAN Belgium et al.
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21 Sep 2023