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Kempen raises insurer money for sustainable farmland fund
- 12 October 2021
Two Dutch insurance companies have invested in a fund buying farmland in Australia, Denmark, Portugal, New Zealand, and the US.
The true price of palm oil
- Global Witness
- 08 October 2021
Global Witness goes undercover to investigate the growing threat facing Papua New Guinea’s communities and tropical forests from palm oil companies driving widespread deforestation and human rights abuses.
Souveraineté alimentaire en Afrique du Nord : les ravages du Covid-19
- Nawaat.org
- 07 October 2021
La pandémie et la récession qui l’a accompagnée ont eu un effet dévastateur sur les revenus et les moyens de subsistance des travailleur∙euse∙s dans la région MENA. Dans le même temps, l’accaparement des terres, de l’eau et des semences par le capital national et étranger s’est poursuivi.
Droit à la terre, à l’eau et l’agroécologie paysanne : Une lutte commune
- CGLTE OA
- 07 October 2021
La Convergence Globale des luttes pour la Terre et l’Eau organise la 3ème édition de la “Caravane Ouest Africaine Droit à la Terre, à l’Eau, à l’Agroécologie Paysanne : une lutte commune !” du 28 octobre au 18 novembre 2021
Palmolie met minachting voor mensenrechten in Congo
- Globalinfo.nl
- 07 October 2021
In de Democratische Republiek Congo heeft AFD (De Franse ontwikkelingshulp, vert.) gedurende acht jaar een palmolieplantage gefinancierd waarvan de beheerders en het beveiligingsbedrijf beschuldigd worden van moord en landroof. Totdat ze zich er uiteindelijk aan het einde van 2020 van distancieerden.
Treasury buys Kilombero Plantantion’s Mngeta farm
- IPP
- 07 October 2021
The rice farm of KPL, a subsidiary of Guernsey-based Agrica Limited, was once touted as the best large scale commercial farming partnership with smallholder farmers until it defaulted in 2019.
Eni to help boost biofuel production in the Congo
- Biofuels News
- 06 October 2021
The Italian firm Eni has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Republic of Congo to produce castor beans on 150,000 ha for biofuel
Angola: protocole d’accord tripartite pour la production de biocarburants d’origine végétale
- Energies Media
- 06 October 2021
Le groupe énergétique italien Eni a signé un protocole d’accord avec le gouvernment angolais pour produire des graines de ricin et certaines céréales comme biocarburants en Angola
Chaoliang Group's Tanzania PTA construction project signed with Hunan Construction Engineering Group for USD 300 million
- AgLook
- 05 October 2021
The Agricultural Products Industrial Park, Port and New City in Kilwa, Tanzania involves 80,000 acres of land, and the companies have obtained a land use certificate from the Tanzania government.
Indigenous Papuan women and the struggle for land
- New Mandala
- 05 October 2021
There is a common and well-known philosophy throughout Papua, which represents the strong bond between women and nature; “Land is Mama”. We might suspect that it sounds like a romantic attachment of the stereotype of domestic work to one gender. However, it is reflected in what these Indigenous women, who fight for their land are doing.
Invisible hands? European corporations and the deforestation of the Amazon and Cerrado biomes
- ENCO
- 04 October 2021
European firms are involved at different stages of the supply chain of soy, meat and metal – industries which are the main drivers of the deforestation of the Amazon and Cerrado regions in Brazil
Nigeria looks to revive ailing palm oil sector
- AFP
- 04 October 2021
Government of Nigeria is pumping new money into the palm oil sector but the funds go to companies like the European giant Socfin, not small Nigerian farmers