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Vietnam: HAGL raising capital to expand pig production
- Asian Agribiz
- 20 April 2022
Hoang Nguyen Duc, Chairman of HAGL, said the company will build nine more commercial pig farms this year, including two in Laos and two in Cambodia.
Foreign investment in U.S. cropland nearly tripled in past decade, USDA data shows
- Investigate Midwest
- 19 April 2022
The total cropland controlled by foreign interests in 2020 was 10.9 million acres, up from 4.1 million acres in 2010.
Get big or get out: Trying to survive in Australia's agriculture industry
- SBS
- 19 April 2022
Young people are moving away, foreign and domestic investors are moving in and smaller farms are being swallowed up.
Sierra Leone: 1,475 MALOA members sign petition objecting to the RSPO certification of SOCFIN
- Green Scenery
- 19 April 2022
The Malen Affected Land Owners and Users Association has submitted a petition signed by 1,475 of its members objecting to the certification of SOCFIN by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
Signs of harmful projects with financing from development institutions are spotted in Uganda
- Witness Radio
- 19 April 2022
Witness Radio surveyed some projects in Uganda funded by development banks and found agony, illegal evictions, abject poverty, environmental degradation, and loss of life among others.
Los asesinatos por conflictos en el campo en Brasil crecieron un 75 % en 2021
- EFE
- 18 April 2022
Los asesinatos por conflictos en el campo en Brasil escalaron un 75 % en 2021, un aumento que refleja "el abandono y la acción deliberada contra la vida de las personas" en el Gobierno del presidente Jair Bolsonaro, denunció este lunes la Comisión Pastoral de la Tierra
Brasil. La Amazonía representa el 97% de las áreas de conflicto territorial en Brasil, señala CPT
- Resumen Latinoamericano
- 18 April 2022
Según la Comisión Pastoral de la Tierra, la Amazonía representa 82% de los acaparamientos de tierra en Brasil en 2021
Turkey’s ambitious project in Sudan turns into a fiasco
- Nordic Monitor
- 17 April 2022
Turkey has been planning since 2014 to meet a significant portion of its food needs by cultivating farmland leased in Sudan but lands have yet to be allocated and there are no staff working at the project's agricultural company.
Ecuadorean blueberry investment fund
- Aviation Analysis
- 17 April 2022
The first “Ecuadorian Fruits and Vegetables Export Investment Fund” for local and foreign investors has begun with 10 hectares planted in the canton of Batat.
Allocution de bienvenu
- Synaparcam
- 16 April 2022
Allocution de bienvenu d’un des Chefs Traditionnel des Communautés Mbonjo suite à la visite de courtoisie et prise de contact du nouveau Directeur de Plantation SOCAPALM par intérim de Dibombari.
Belgian farmers outraged at ‘systematic’ farmland acquisition by Colruyt
- Brussles Times
- 16 April 2022
Around 150 farmers demonstrated in the Flemish-Brabant city of Halle against the supermarket chain Colruyt, which they claim is buying up too much farmland in Belgium.
Congo, Rwanda sign agricultural land concession agreement
- FRA
- 16 April 2022
According to the inked deal, Congo will grant Rwanda 12,000 hectares of exploitable land in at least three Departments in the south of the country.