The president of Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, has set a strategic objective to extend the cultivated area in the south to 500,000 hectares, including investments from Qatar for 117.,000 hectares and from Italy for 36,000 hectares, as well as national investments for 120,000 hectares.
Con la justificativa de destinar tierras a los campesinos, Proyecto de Ley pretende destinar titulo de propiedad individual de la tierra en zonas de reserva forestal sin aclarar si permite la ganadería y amnistías por el delito de deforestación para los productores ocupantes. Lo que puede se convirtir en la legalización del acaparamiento de tierras.
On May 7, 2024, Lipton announced the sale of its Kenyan tea estates to LOLC Holdings PLC. The tea estates are on land that was violently seized from the Kipsigis and Talai clans by the British army in the early 20th century.
A new report has found that investors and agribusiness in Latin America are increasingly buying up small parcels of land with abundant water access, thus securing control over the vital resource.
The five villages signed formal agreements with Soils for the Future (Tanzania) Ltd to execute the project on 71,656.30 hectares, which is the total amount of communal grazing areas allocated by the residents of all five villages.
The strategy aims to protect and restore approximately 135,000 hectares of natural forests in deforested landscapes and plant millions of trees in commercial tree farms on another approximately 135,000 hectares of previously deforested and degraded land in the Brazilian Cerrado.
“Nosotros continuamos con las tomas de tierra porque si no, no habrá reforma agraria en Brasil. Vemos la expansión del agronegocio y del latifundio, terratenientes le compran la tierra a la propia gente que, desesperada por la pobreza, vende”, manifestó integrante de MST durante el XI Foro Social Panamazónico (Fospa).
Dois fundos de investimentos no agronegócio compraram mais de R$54 milhões em títulos de dívida do setor que têm como garantia créditos de carbono florestal. Os projetos de REDD+ estão sobre parte dos 500 mil hectares de terras públicas federais griladas pela empresa emissora da dívida, a Stoppe Ltda., em um esquema que pode ser a maior fraude envolvendo créditos de carbono no país.
La spoliation des terres de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal est dénoncée par Dr Mbaye Cissé, président du Réseau de la vallée contre l’accaparement des terres et la dégradation de l’environnement.
The alleged plan for the sale of the Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) by its parent company Socfin, has raised concerns among civil society organizations and communities affected by the operations of the company amid the ongoing lawsuit for forcefully taking local community land to extend their rubber plantations.
The new Agricultural Growth Corridors of Tanzania (AGCOT) will follow a similar approach to the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT).
Governo de Moçambique e a União Brasileira do Biodiesel e Bioquerosene (Ubrabio) assinaram acordo para ampliar investimentos na expansão de produção de biodiesel sobre os 36 milhões de ha de terras agricultáveis do país. As gigantes da energia Total e Eni já estudam de biodiesel a partir do coco, palma e caroço de algodão, algo que pode modificar o controle sobre a terra no país por corporações.
