The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty says land, water, forests and oceans are increasingly concentrated in the hands of corporations and financial actors, driving dispossession, inequality and ecological collapse.
Ce documentaire suit les démarches de deux communautés dans le cadre des procès juridiques, avec l'aide de réseaux d'activistes et d'avocats. Il montre les conséquences de l'accaparement des terres sur la vie quotidienne et sur la culture des populations affectées. Il décrit aussi les implications de la loi sur le devoir de vigilance des entreprises.
40 South Dairies, a dairy farming joint venture owned in part by the Washington State Investment Board, has emerged as the buyer of the Peltzer family's prized 2683 hectares Logan estate.
Le gouvernement malgache a signé un protocole d’accord avec l’entreprise privée COM’ON HOLDING & PARTENAIRE portant sur 150 000 hectares de nouveaux périmètres rizicoles, qui serviront le marché local et l'exportation.
On February 14, the Agriculture Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding with private firm COM'ON HOLDING & PARTENAIRE to support its plan to develop 150,000 hectares of new rice-growing areas.
A wave of land disputes that began in eastern Uzbekistan has spread to Sirdaryo, where farmers say authorities are using courts, debt enforcement, and administrative pressure to shift farmland into a system that favors foreign, particularly Chinese, investors.
Critics in Suriname are speaking out against plans for a public-private partnership to develop 113,465 hectares of rainforest for industrial agriculture in the district of Nickerie.
Dopo otto anni, la società multinazionale Socfin, specializzata nelle piantagioni, ha interrotto il suo legame con l’Earthworm Foundation, una consulente ambientale. Socfin si era rivolta a Earthworm dopo aver ricevuto accuse di violazioni dei diritti umani e impatti ambientali negativi nelle sue piantagioni in Africa e Asia sudorientale. Rappresentanti delle comunità e attivisti ambientali in Liberia sostengono che le raccomandazioni di Earthworm non siano state implementate in modo adeguato.
After eight years, multinational plantation company Socfin and the environmental consultancy Earthworm Foundation have cut ties.
FCC has convened a coalition of more than 20 investment organizations, including venture capital, private equity and Royal Bank of Canada. It will connect these investors to opportunities in land acquisition, manufacturing and new ag-tech startups, among other projects.
As 401(k) plan sponsors look to improve diversification and long-term outcomes, real assets such as timber and farmland are moving closer to the center of the conversation, alongside private markets like real estate and private credit.
Australia’s Oyster Coast (AOC), a portfolio company of Roc Partners and the country’s largest producer, processor, and marketer of Sydney Rock oysters, announced it has expanded its footprint through the acquisition of an oyster farm in the Pambula estuary on the far South Coast of New South Wales.