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Belgian plantation group Socfin sees profits explode

De Tijd
04 May 2022

Last year, the Belgian Hubert Fabri's plantation group Socfin saw its turnover rise sharply to more than 800 million euro. The profit even climbed to 80 million.

Caught red-handed: Reports expose ongoing soy industry ties to land grabbing, illegal deforestation in Brazil

Rede Social & FOE US
03 May 2022

Two reports expose Bunge Ltd's ties to deforestation, human rights abuses and land grabbing in Brazil’s sensitive Cerrado region

Ukraine: From breadbasket to breadcrumbs

Al Jazeera
30 April 2022

Advocates of large-scale, intensive industrial agriculture are saying, yet again, that we should ramp up global production to deal with the food crisis. But this is not the solution.

Pandemic power-grabs: Who benefits from food estates in West Papua?

TAPOL/awasMIFEE!
29 April 2022

The Indonesia government's Food Estates programme could could lead to corruption, where corporate and state actors and their family and friends – not West Papuans – benefit from the allocation of land for Food Estates.

SLCCIA, CAPPA and others submit feedback on proposed land reform to Sierra Leone Parliament

SL Telegraph
28 April 2022

Socfin says the result of clauses limiting lease agreements to an initial max of 5000 hectares, and for a period not exceeding 21 years for non-citizens, would be no more investment in rubber, forestry, palm oil or other plantation crops

Uganda: 35,000 evicted residents in Kiryandongo district face starvation

The Independent
27 April 2022

More than 35,000 people who were evicted from their land by multinational agribusiness companies in Kiryandongo district are on the verge of starvation.

Activists protest Harvard’s land investments, Allston expansion at Science Center Plaza

Harvard Crimson
25 April 2022

Stop Harvard Land Grabs and the Housing Opportunities Program held a rally in Harvard’s Science Center Plaza Friday to protest the University’s previous farmland investments in Brazil.

Call him the mango man

Miami Herald
24 April 2022

A Colombian company co-owned by Miami developer Moishe Mana produces dairy, Tahiti limes, mangoes, oranges, pineapples and corn on 2,471 acres of farms.

Zambia Court of Appeal affirms displaced community’s customary land rights

SALC
22 April 2022

On 21 April 2022, the Court of Appeal of Zambia handed down judgment in the case of Molosoni Chipabwamba and 12 Other displaced village owners v Yssel Enterprises Ltd and 7 Others. It cancelled the Certificate of Title issued to Bills Farm Limited (4th Respondent) following an unlawful conversion of customary land to State land, and ordered that the land already converted to State land reverts to customary tenure.

Qatar aims to maintain 6-month stock of basic commodities at all times: Hassad CEO

The Peninsula
20 April 2022

Hassad has invested in international institutions and companies operating in the grain, meat, poultry, livestock and fish sectors, in a number of countries such as Australia, Canada, Turkey, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan.

Vietnam: HAGL raising capital to expand pig production

Asian Agribiz
20 April 2022

Hoang Nguyen Duc, Chairman of HAGL, said the company will build nine more commercial pig farms this year, including two in Laos and two in Cambodia.

Foreign investment in U.S. cropland nearly tripled in past decade, USDA data shows

Investigate Midwest
19 April 2022

The total cropland controlled by foreign interests in 2020 was 10.9 million acres, up from 4.1 million acres in 2010.

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Belgian plantation group Socfin sees profits explode

Caught red-handed: Reports expose ongoing soy industry ties to land grabbing, illegal deforestation in Brazil

Ukraine: From breadbasket to breadcrumbs

Pandemic power-grabs: Who benefits from food estates in West Papua?

SLCCIA, CAPPA and others submit feedback on proposed land reform to Sierra Leone Parliament

Uganda: 35,000 evicted residents in Kiryandongo district face starvation

Activists protest Harvard’s land investments, Allston expansion at Science Center Plaza

Call him the mango man

Zambia Court of Appeal affirms displaced community’s customary land rights

Qatar aims to maintain 6-month stock of basic commodities at all times: Hassad CEO

Vietnam: HAGL raising capital to expand pig production

Foreign investment in U.S. cropland nearly tripled in past decade, USDA data shows

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