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Brasil: Aprovação do marco temporal ‘premiará’ invasores de terras
- IHU
- 20 October 2021
Se a tese do marco temporal for aprovada pelo STF, o território Xokleng e mais de 300 terras indígenas estarão com as demarcações ameaçadas.
Cultivating fiscal inequality: The Socfin report
- Bread for All
- 20 October 2021
A new report on the tax strategy of agribusiness corporation Socfin reveals how multinational companies can shift profits from countries where they produce commodities in Africa and Asia to tax havens like Switzerland.
Guyana woos foreign investors in agriculture, services sectors
- Demerara Waves
- 19 October 2021
President Irfaan Ali and his delegation wooed investors in the UAE to take advantage of opportunities in large-scale agriculture, including mega-farms, to support the UAE's food security agenda
La loi malagasy sur les investissements 2007-036 de nouveau dans l’objectif des dirigeants ?
- CRAAD-OI et al
- 19 October 2021
A Madagascar, alors que beaucoup de citoyens vivent dans l’angoisse, une nouvelle version de la loi sur les investissements, autorisant les sociétés à capitaux majoritairement étrangers à acheter des terrains à Madagascar, serait en cours de finalisation.
Lettre ouverte - Les banques de développement n’ont pas vocation à financer l’agrobusiness
- GRAIN
- 18 October 2021
À la veille de la réunion annuelle des banques publiques de développement à Rome, 280 groupes de 70 pays ont signé une lettre dénonçant leur financement de l'expansion de l'agriculture industrielle, de la destruction de l'environnement et du contrôle du système alimentaire par les entreprises.
Development banks have no business financing agribusiness
- Various
- 18 October 2021
On the eve of an annual gathering of public development banks, 280 groups from 70 countries sign letter slamming them for bankrolling the expansion of industrial agriculture.
Panamá: Investigan a funcionarios por titulación irregular de tierras
- La Prensa
- 17 October 2021
La investigación inició a raíz de información sobre el acaparamiento y devastación de más de 200 hectáreas de tierra en Pihuila y Amarradero, ubicados en el corregimiento de Camoganti, que fueron usados para la ganadería extensiva.
Karuturi fights receivers over property auction
- The Standard
- 15 October 2021
Cash-strapped Karuturi Flowers in Naivasha is back in court in a bid to stop receiver managers from auctioning its property over Sh1.8 billion debt
Podcast: Who benefits from resource extraction in DRC?
- Mongabay
- 14 October 2021
Anuradha Mittal, executive director of the Oakland Institute, talks about the Western investors profiting off of oil palm plantations accused of human rights violations and environmental abuses.
Grandes Transacciones de Tierras del noreste Brasileño
- Land Matrix
- 14 October 2021
Se resalta el control de territorios en el Noreste de Brasil con un enfoque especial en la multidimensionalidad del proceso en esta región. Si bien el agronegocio es el foco principal, se instalan y renuevan otras formas de explotación predatoria, siempre con la aprobación y apoyo del Estado.
Hungary backs down from Slovak land acquisition plan after fiery criticism
- Hungary Today
- 14 October 2021
The Hungarian government has officially canceled its plan to set up a EUR 400 million private equity fund to purchase farmland in the Central European region, including Slovakia, due to serious political tensions.
Uganda: A decade of land grabs with impunity
- Ugandan Land Defenders
- 14 October 2021
A Chinese company is now grabbing land in Mubende district that is owned by imprisoned defenders and that is used by the elderly.