Global agricultural investor Nuveen Natural Capital has joined a growing pool of institutional fund managers targeting Australia’s burgeoning macadamia sector, after buying one of the country’s largest orchards
Nigeria's Kaduna State Government has given companies like Olam access to large hectares of farmlands, a development some peasant farmers say has succeeded in relegating them to the background.
- Daily Trust
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10 December 2022
BNP Paribas Asset Management has bought a majority stake in a Danish firm specialising in woodland and agricultural investments.
Between 2017 and 2021, Mennonite colonies deforested about 4,000 hectares (10,000 acres) of Peruvian forests and encroached into the Native land of the Indigenous communities of Buenos Aires and Caimito.
- Mongabay
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08 December 2022
Peruvian and international organisations filed a complaint to the OECD against Louis Dreyfus for its sourcing of palm oil from the Ucayali region in the Peruvian Amazon.
- Forest Peoples Programme
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07 December 2022
Alexander Tkachev, a former Russian agriculture minister, heads a family company that Ukrainian grain growers say has taken control of hundreds of thousands of acres of their land.
A clause in the 2023 budget states that "it is expected that large parcels of unutilised/unproductively used lands will be leased out on long-term basis to grow exportable crops"
- The Island
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05 December 2022
This article traces the ways the UAE utilises the private sector, agribusiness and logistics firms, alongside military power, to achieve so-called food security.
- New Political Economy
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05 December 2022
Last May, the Cameroonian government decided to allocate 95,000 hectares of land to the company Tawfiq Agro Industry to develop an agro-industrial facility aimed at reducing expensive Western food imports.
- Mongabay
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01 December 2022
Over 100 organisations denounce RSPO during its 19th general meeting for greenwashing environmental destruction, labour and human rights abuses and land grabbing by the palm oil industry
- Collective statement
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30 November 2022
The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has approved the sale of more than 100 hectares of Karuturi Flower Farm in Naivasha by Shalimar Flowers.
- The Standard
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29 November 2022
Total project area covers 25,000 hectares and will produce up to 17 MM tCO2e over life-of-project, with a further 37,000 hectares secured reforestation rights in Sierra Leone
- Klimat X
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29 November 2022