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The global farmland grab goes green
- GRAIN
- 11 May 2021
Carbon credits and net-zero pledges are fuelling a new round of farmland buying by billionaires and pension funds that will undermine real climate action.
CDC Group commits $100 million to ETG, supporting the lives of farmers across Africa and Asia
- CDC Group
- 10 May 2021
CDC's commitment to company that operates on large swaths of farmland in Africa marks one of its largest corporate debt investments ever.
Ethiopie: inauguration d'un parc agro-industriel intégré réalisé à hauteur de 215 millions $
- Agence Ecofin
- 10 May 2021
Le parc agro-industriel intégré de Bulbula qui s’étend sur 271 hectares est « une démonstration de la vision de la prospérité du secteur agricole » portée par Addis-Abeba
Argentina: Hegemonía verde, fundaciones conservacionistas en el control del territorio
- El Cohete a la Luna
- 09 May 2021
Las fundaciones operan en enclaves estratégicos con valor medioambiental
Investors commit $159m to revolutionise Nigeria’s cassava, oil palm value chains
- National Accord
- 09 May 2021
Fayus Group says it has committed over $100 million along with other investors under the Edo State Oil Palm Program to establish 46,000 ha of oil palm plantations over the next five years.
RDC: La justice ouvre un dossier contre Augustin Matata Ponyo
- Politico.CD
- 06 May 2021
La justice congolaise a ouvert un dossier à charge contre le Sénateur Augustin Matata Ponyo pour sa gestion du parc agro-industriel de Bukanga Lonzo, apprend POLITICO.CD des sources exclusives.
UK supermarkets threaten Brazil boycott over Amazon deforestation
- Sky News
- 05 May 2021
An open letter to the Brazilian National Congress, led by supermarket chains including Tesco and Sainsbury's, urges them to reject a proposed "land grabbers law" to allow the private occupation of public land.
Brasil: Em carta ao Senado, bispos da Amazônia pedem a retirada de tramitação do PL da Grilagem
- CIMI
- 04 May 2021
A nota pública assinada por mais de 60 bispos da região afirma que medida terá maior impacto na Amazônia
Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river
- Mongabay
- 04 May 2021
Botum Sakor National Park in southern Cambodia has lost at least 30,000 ha of forest over the past three decades. Environmental degradation go back to the late 1990s when Cambodian government began handing out economic land concessions for commercial plantations and tourist infrastructure.
Cambodia: Firm accused of grabbing indigenous community’s land in Stung Treng
- Phnom Penh Post
- 04 May 2021
Over 30 families from the Kreung indigenous community say that Singapore-based SK Plantations has bulldozed their forests and crops, demolished their homes and sent in security forces to stop them from planting.
Understand FIAgro – The new agribusiness-related investment fund accessible to foreign investors
- FLA
- 04 May 2021
A new type of investment fund was created by Brazil's Congress which may be used for acquisition of Brazilian rural land
Peruvian agribusinesses' interest in acquiring land in Colombia increases
- Fresh Plaza
- 03 May 2021
Colombian Embassy in Peru says Peruvian agribusiness companies have a growing interest in investing in land in Colombia and at least five companies are set to do so in 2021 to grow blueberries and avocados