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Understand FIAgro – The new agribusiness-related investment fund accessible to foreign investors
- FLA
- 04 May 2021
A new type of investment fund was created by Brazil's Congress which may be used for acquisition of Brazilian rural land
Peruvian agribusinesses' interest in acquiring land in Colombia increases
- Fresh Plaza
- 03 May 2021
Colombian Embassy in Peru says Peruvian agribusiness companies have a growing interest in investing in land in Colombia and at least five companies are set to do so in 2021 to grow blueberries and avocados
Le Front marocain de soutien à la Palestine dénonce l'intention du groupe sioniste "Mehadrin" de louer des terres agricoles marocaines
- APS
- 03 May 2021
Le Front dénonce l'accaparement des terres marocaines par "Mehadrin" qui compte louer 455 ha pour la production d'avocats
Brasil: PL da Grilagem entra em votação no Congresso, avançando os tratores do agronegócio a favor da grilagem de terras
- IHU
- 01 May 2021
PL 510/2021, de autoria do senador Irajá Abreu, favorece a expansão dos latifúndios e facilita a regularização da grilagem de terras públicas.
Holding companies to account
- Global Witness
- 30 April 2021
European companies, including oil and rubber giant Socfin, have long profited from human rights abuses, environmental destruction and climate breakdown. This briefing from Global Witness sets out proposals on how to change that under EU law,
RDC: Entretien avec Mme Augin Nolofana, la maman d'un jeune villageois de Mwingi, qui aurait été tué par les agents de la société PHC/KKM
- RIAO-RDC et GRAIN
- 30 April 2021
La mère de Efolafola Nisoni Manu, agé de 20 ans, parle de sa meurtre en février dernier aux mains des policiers et des agents de sécurité de la société de plantations de palmier à huile PHC/KKM.
Madagascar: Worse than the Daewoo project, the Agribusiness Strategy
- CRAAD-OI and TANY
- 29 April 2021
The government of Madagascar has earmarked 4 million hectares for agropoles while at the same time pursuing a 60,000 ha land loan to Elite Agro LLC and revising the land law in favour of investors
Madagascar : Pire que le projet Daewoo, la stratégie nationale de l'agrobusiness
- CRAAD-OI et TANY
- 29 April 2021
Une stratégie nationale de l’agribusiness ambitionne d’aménager 4 millions d’hectares d’agropoles à Madagascar
France - Grosse mobilisation citoyenne pour dénoncer les pratiques illégales des vergers de Fontorbe
- Occitanie Tribune
- 29 April 2021
Plus de 500 personnes se sont retrouvées pour une marche citoyenne contre l'accaparement des terres agricoles par le Domaine de Fontorbe en France
University of Iowa faculty rebuke farmland investors for fueling land grabs and corporate takeover of agriculture
- ActionAidUSA
- 28 April 2021
The University of Iowa Faculty Senate voted 42 to 7 to pass a resolution calling on the university to hold the financial services provider TIAA accountable for its investments in global farmland.
Ontario Teachers’ invests in four family-run orchards to create single 500 ha business
- GAI
- 27 April 2021
The newly merged entity in Victoria, Australia will include more than 500 hectares of orchards, water rights, two packing houses and additional land.
Desmatamento da Amazônia com Bolsonaro visa a grilagem, aponta dirigente do MST
- MST
- 27 April 2021
Passadas algumas décadas, o solo e o meio ambiente se exaurem e esses latifundiários avançam para fronteira agrícola com esse sistema de extração madeireira-desmatamento-queimada-grilagem.