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Madagascar : Projet ELITE AGRO LLC dans le Bas-Mangoky
- Gouvt de Madagascar
- 07 April 2021
Décision du Conseil des Ministres malgache du 7 avril 2021 (avec extrait en français)
Agricultural investment firm sees opportunity in Africa’s ‘incomplete value chains’
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
- 07 April 2021
The Silverlands I portfolio, the continent’s largest agricultural investment fund, includes primary production and beef and poultry assets across South Africa, Namibia, eSwatini, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique.
¿Por qué Bill Gates se ha convertido en el mayor propietario privado de tierras agrícolas en EEUU?
- Red Eco Alternativo
- 07 April 2021
El cofundador de Microsoft, empresario y filántropo, Bill Gates, ha acumulado la mayor cantidad de tierras agrícolas privadas en EEUU: alrededor de 98.000 hectáreas.
Case study casts doubt over ESG claims of Canadian pension fund PSP’s major agriculture investment on Maui
- Responsible Markets
- 06 April 2021
Report finds the Canadian based pension plan is not living up to its own environmental, social responsibility, and corporate governance principles, resulting in adverse impacts on Maui’s environment and residents.
Ancaman terhadap komunitas yang bergantung pada hutan di Indonesia dan kisah-kisah perlawanannya
- WRM
- 06 April 2021
Sebuah kompilasi dari WRM mengenai ancaman yang dihadapi komunitas yang bergantung pada hutan di Indonesia dan perlawanan mereka menghadapinya.
Attacks on forest-dependent communities in Indonesia and resistance stories
- WRM
- 06 April 2021
A compilation by World Rainforest Movement on the threats faced by fores-dependent communities in Indonesia and their resistance.
Ouargla: vingt-mille hectares de terres consacrées à l’agro-industrie
- APS
- 06 April 2021
Menée par la société d’investissement "Al-Filaha-ATLAS", fruit d’un partenariat privé algéro-turc, cette expérience vise à construire une plate-forme de production de blé, de légumineuses, de betterave et de tournesol avec des procédés industriels modernes répondant aux standards internationaux dans le cadre de la mise en valeur des terres agricoles
State pension money invested in ‘questionable’ Congo palm oil company
- Sunday Times
- 06 April 2021
The South African Government Employees Pension Fund and the country's Public Investment Corporation are invested in a Congolese palm oil business linked to past human rights abuses and land expropriation.
PostNL pension fund makes farmland allocation over returns, SDGs
- IPE
- 06 April 2021
A first €20m has already been invested in olive orchards in Portugal, with possible investments in Danish organic vegetable farming, American potatoes, barley and wheat as well as kiwi fruit in New Zealand.
Camvert and the forest peril in the Congo basin
- Afrik21
- 06 April 2021
Some local communities have joined NGOs to denounce the establishment of Camvert, a project to develop the largest palm plantation in Central Africa on 50,000 hectares of forest.
Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why?
- The Guardian
- 05 April 2021
The relationship to land – who owns it, who works it and who cares for it – reflects obscene levels of inequality and legacies of colonialism and white supremacy in the United States, and also the world.
Planned deforestation threatens Indigenous land, intact forest landscapes in West Papua
- Greenpeace
- 05 April 2021
New report from Greenpeace International‘Licence to Clear’ shows systematic violations of permitting regulations as plantations were pushed into forest areas. Since 2000, forest estate land released for plantations in Papua Province has totalled almost a million hectares.