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Bitter Fruit: The palm oil industry remakes Guatemala
- The Baffler
- 30 May 2022
In the palm oil industry, image control is a means of survival, and what is said can be even more nefarious than what is done.
La société civile malgache veut protéger les terres face aux investisseurs étrangers
- RFI
- 30 May 2022
À Madagascar, la société civile s’oppose à ce que les investisseurs étrangers puissent devenir propriétaires de terres malgaches. Mais la Banque mondiale insiste qu'il faut faire de la place pour de plus grosses exploitations agricoles.
Kenya’s Victory Farms to expand operations into Rwanda, Tanzania and DRC
- Farmers Review Africa
- 29 May 2022
Kenyan aquaculture company Victory Farms, East Africa’s largest commercial fish farmer, has raised $5 million in private equity funding to expand operations into Rwanda, Tanzania and the DRC.
Cargill's bid to open new port in Brazil opposed by human rights, conservation groups
- Star Tribune
- 29 May 2022
A community of fishermen and acai gatherers are suing Cargill in federal court in Brazil, accusing the company of stealing their land, acquiring it through third parties bearing allegedly fake land titles.
Farmland assets: International finance and the transformation of Brazil’s agricultural lands
- Phenomenal World
- 28 May 2022
The expansion of industrial agriculture in Brazil has been an international affair, linking pension funds, university endowments, and major financial actors across the world.
Integritas investor: Bangun Bumi Papua proyek
- Pusaka Bentala Rakyat
- 28 May 2022
Pengelolaan proyek Food Estate Bangun Bumi Papua akan diserahkan pada PT Alamindo Lestari Sejahtera Tbk yang memiliki lebih dari 500.000 hektar konsesi logging di lima kabupaten di Papua Barat.
Large-scale land acquisition for carbon: opportunities and risks
- SEFARI
- 28 May 2022
It is clear that natural capital markets and wider investor interest in carbon offsetting and green agendas are driving market interest in Scottish land and in particular land values for plantable land
RDC : voici quelques innovations contenues dans l’avant-projet de Loi modifiant et complétant la Loi foncière de 1973
- Zoom Eco
- 27 May 2022
L’avant-projet de loi modifiant le régime foncier en RDC cherche à reconnaître les droits coutumiers "legitimes" des communautés locales tout en améliorant la sécurité juridique des "transactions" foncières sur les terres rurales
Malawi: Conforzi to invest K8.2bn in PPP venture
- The Nation
- 27 May 2022
Conforzi Plantation Limited has unveiled plans to invest $10 million in a 5,000 hectare irrigation scheme under Public Private Partnership arrangement to grow high-value crops.
INVL fund that invests in forest and land acquires 1184 ha in Latvia
- Invalda
- 26 May 2022
The INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II, which invests in forest and land in the Baltic Sea region and Central and Eastern EU countries, has completed a transaction to acquire 1184 hectares in Latvia through its subsidiary Zemvalde Forest SIA, including 635 ha of forest and the rest is agricultural and other land.
Devlin Kuyek, GRAIN and Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebaggala, Witness Radio Uganda
- Blended Finance Project
- 26 May 2022
Interview with Devlin Kuyek, GRAIN and Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebaggala, Witness Radio Uganda
Socfin/Bolloré plantations: rising profits, ongoing repression
- ReAct et al.
- 25 May 2022
From Sierra Leone to Nigeria, through Cameroon, Guinea and Ivory Coast, communities living near the industrial palm oil and rubber plantations of Socfin/Bolloré are fighting for their rights and against repression.