farmlandgrab.org | Special content

Elite Agro and Khalifa Fund sign MoU

Fruitnet.com
22 July 2020

Elite Agro has signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding with Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development to manage and operate a number of farms in the UAE

Run for nature: The fight to save Africa’s forests

Slow Food
21 July 2020

As the world concentrates on dealing with COVID-19 pandemic, multinational companies continue to evict communities from their land, tearing down their lives and their sovereignty to plant monocrops like oil palm and sugar cane in Africa, or GMO soy in South America.

MCC could potentially shift millions of hectares of land into private control, says US-based think tank

Daily FT
21 July 2020

The Oakland Institute, independent policy think tank based in the US, in a recent report said the compact between Sri Lanka and the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) could potentially shift millions of hectares of land in the country into private control

Feronia Inc. enters into restructuring purchase agreement

Globe Newswire
21 July 2020

Feronia announces that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with Straight KKM 2 Ltd that provides for the acquisition of its operating subsidiary, Plantations et Huileries du Congo.

Governo de Moçambique e Parceiros Acordam o Término do ProSAVANA

Ministério da Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural
20 July 2020

O Ministério da Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural torna público que os parceiros envolvidos com o Governo no Programa ProSAVANA acordaram o seu término com a conclusão do “Projecto para o Estabelecimento de Modelo de Desenvolvimento ao Nível das Comunidades com Melhoria do Serviço de Extensão Rural no Desenvolvimento Agrícola do Corredor de Nacala em Moçambique”

Communautés d’Afrique résistent aux plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile, même en temps de Covid-19

Vivafrik
18 July 2020

Alors que les entreprises d’huile de palme se présentent comme des donateurs charitables pendant la pandémie, les communautés vivant dans et autour de ces plantations racontent une autre histoire.

Covid-19 compounds local ire against palm oil firms in West Africa

Earthsight
16 July 2020

A new wave of alleged environmental and human rights abuses by Wilmar, Socfin and others sees renewed calls for action

Diécké (Yomou) : la SOGUIPAH, une société qui maintient le cap malgré la pandémie du nouveau Coronavirus

Mosaiqueguinee.com
15 July 2020

La Soguipah - entreprise d'Etat qui détient 9 000 ha de plantations d'hévéa en Guyinée - fait appel à Bolloré pour continuer à tourner

The impact of COVID-19 on landgrabbing across Africa

Amandla
15 July 2020

Is the pandemic opening up forms of organizing to restore community control over resources or will it consolidate the efforts of those already holding the balance of power to usurp community control over land?

Uhuru cracks the whip on Del Monte land row

The Nation
15 July 2020

Kenya's President has intervened in a land dispute between Murang’a residents and Del Monte Foods after being pressured by the US government as part of talks around the proposed free trade agreement.

‘In the plantations there is hunger and loneliness’: The cultural dimensions of food insecurity in Papua

The Gecko Project
14 July 2020

A decade ago, the Indonesian government began to heavily promote large-scale plantation in southern Papua. An investigation recently published explored how some outside investors gained rights to the land and the fallout for the indigenous population. Children were suffering from malnutrition while agricultural commodities are exported from their ancestral land.

Privatisation 'wave' hurts poor as pandemic heightens risks

Reuters
14 July 2020

A push to privatise land and other resources in countries from Ukraine to Papua New Guinea is hurting indigenous people and the rural poor, while increasing the risks linked to climate change.

Elite Agro and Khalifa Fund sign MoU

Run for nature: The fight to save Africa’s forests

MCC could potentially shift millions of hectares of land into private control, says US-based think tank

Feronia Inc. enters into restructuring purchase agreement

Governo de Moçambique e Parceiros Acordam o Término do ProSAVANA

Communautés d’Afrique résistent aux plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile, même en temps de Covid-19

Covid-19 compounds local ire against palm oil firms in West Africa

Diécké (Yomou) : la SOGUIPAH, une société qui maintient le cap malgré la pandémie du nouveau Coronavirus

The impact of COVID-19 on landgrabbing across Africa

Uhuru cracks the whip on Del Monte land row

‘In the plantations there is hunger and loneliness’: The cultural dimensions of food insecurity in Papua

Privatisation 'wave' hurts poor as pandemic heightens risks

Who's involved?

Carbon land deals

Events

Languages

Special content

Archives

Resistance & actions

Home

About

Help

Email

Privacy

Legal

RSS