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Au Liberia, Equatorial Palm Oil double ses pertes au 1er semestre
- Commodafrica
- 14 May 2019
EPO indique qu’il est peu probable que de nouveaux aménagements fonciers et/ou plantations soient réalisées avant la fin septembre 2019
Spain’s El Ciruelo acquires leading Brazilian table grape producer
- Fresh Fruit Portal
- 14 May 2019
Spain-based El Ciruelo has reached an agreement with Grupo JD to acquire its subsidiary Labrunier, the largest Brazilian table grape producer, with 2,400 hectares of land in Brazil.
Radical proposals to save Kenya’s ailing agriculture
- Nation
- 14 May 2019
One of the key proposals is the establishment of 50 new large-scale farms of 2,500 acres or more that will be funded, owned and operated by the private sector, in a plan aimed at unlocking up to 500,000 acres.
Harvard’s investment in land and natural resources
- Harvard Crimson
- 14 May 2019
Harvard University has been grabbing lands from indigenous communities, cutting down forests, and depriving rural people of access to water around the world for years.
Cameroun: Ferme opposition des femmes Bagyeli face a Biopalm
- FPP
- 14 May 2019
Sous la menace de l’accaparement de la société agro-industrielle Biopalm, des femmes autochtones Bagyeli du département de l’Océan disent non à la production du palmier à huile dans leurs forêts.
UN Resolution on the Decade of Family Farming in Japanese　（国連決議文＜日本語訳＞：家族農業の10年）
- 14 May 2019
国連で採択された家族農業の１０年の日本語仮訳のPDFを掲載します。
Brasil: Mapa das Terras dos Parlamentares mostra que eles acumulam fazendas na Amazônia e no Matopiba
- De Olho nos Ruralistas
- 12 May 2019
De Olho nos Ruralistas elaborou mapa que localiza, por município, as propriedades rurais declaradas por deputados e senadores; primeira reportagem de série sobre bancada ruralista aponta latifúndios de congressistas nas fronteiras agrícolas.
Controversial Rai family now targets Mumias sugar nucleus estate
- Kahawatungu
- 12 May 2019
Plans are underway to ensure the family gets a portion of Yala Swamp land - 3,700 hectares - to develop sugarcane.
Masiva privatización de las tierras públicas y los territorios colectivos en Brasil
- GRAIN
- 09 May 2019
La aprobación del nuevo Código de Bosques en 2012 y, después, de la Ley 13.465/17 que modifica cerca de 26 marcos legales sobre la tierra en Brasil, llamada (“Ley del grilagem” o “Ley de acaparamiento”), instrumentan una regularización ambiental y agraria como mecanismos de apropiación masiva de tierras públicas y “devueltas”
China's Xinfadi Market has nearly 18,000 hectares of overseas plantations
- Fresh Plaza
- 09 May 2019
The Xinfadi Market has already established its own plantations in more than 8 countries, including the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand, to guarantee low prices and high quality for fruit imported to Beijing.
What we learned from two years of investigating corrupt land deals in Indonesia and what it says about how to fix the nation’s deforestation and land rights crisis
- The Gecko Project
- 08 May 2019
The last of investigative series “Indonesia for Sale” examined the corruption underpinning Indonesia’s land rights and climate crisis in unparalleled depth from the expansion of oil palm plantations in the country.
Sierra Leone: Parliament legalize Sierra Tropical operations
- Awoko
- 08 May 2019
Sierra Tropical Investment Company, a subsidiary of Dole Asia Holdings, has been given the green light to operate a 4,335 ha pineapple farm by the House of Parliament.