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BNP Paribas Asset Management heads for the woods with Danish deal
- Reuters
- 08 December 2022
BNP Paribas Asset Management has bought a majority stake in a Danish firm specialising in woodland and agricultural investments.
BNP Paribas AM annonce l'acquisition d'une participation majoritaire dans la société International Woodland Company
- Boursier.com
- 08 December 2022
BNP Paribas Asset Management annonce l'acquisition d'une participation majoritaire dans la société International Woodland Company, basée au Danemark, qui gère et conseille 5,5 milliards d'euros d'investissements dans les exploitations forestières et agricoles.
Mennonites deforest Peruvian Amazon, encroach on Indigenous lands
- Mongabay
- 08 December 2022
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.
Indigenous, human rights and environmental organisations call on Louis Dreyfus Company to remedy its role in Amazon deforestation and human rights violations linked to Peruvian palm oil
- Forest Peoples Programme
- 07 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.
CASEF : La Réunion concernée par la réussite du projet
- Témoignages
- 07 December 2022
Un projet de la Banque mondiale à Madagascar va promouvoir la propriété privée des terres agricoles pour aider à nourrir l'île de La Réunion
Denuncian desalojo violento en comunidad guatemalteca Chapín Abajo
- Prensa Latina
- 06 December 2022
Es la cuarta ocasión en que fuerzas de seguridad ingresan a Chapín Abajo para desalojar a familias que reclaman las tierras hoy en poder de NaturAceites, dedicada al monocultivo de la palma africana en el área sur de El Estor, Izabal.
Russian oligarch seizes 400,000 acres of Ukrainian farmland, owners say
- WSJ
- 06 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.
Comidas contaminadas
- Global Witness
- 06 December 2022
Una oleada de conflictos violentos azota el campo paraguayo; la provoca la demanda de tierras para un único cultivo: la soja.
IMF-led privatisation, land and resource grab in Sri Lanka
- The Island
- 05 December 2022
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"
Logistics of the neoliberal food regime: circulation, corporate food security and the United Arab Emirates
- New Political Economy
- 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.
France : La Cour d’appel donne raison à 145 riverains Camerounais opposés au groupe Bolloré
- Ouest France
- 01 December 2022
La justice française a donné raison, ce jeudi 1er décembre 2022, à 145 riverains camerounais face au groupe Bolloré, qui exigent qu’il fournisse des documents censés établir ses liens avec la Société camerounaise de palmeraies.
To replace Western food imports, Cameroon gives community lands to ‘no-name’ agro-industry
- Mongabay
- 01 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.