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Pas de label bio pour l’agrobusiness !
- Pain pour le prochain
- 12 Mar 2021
Il est scandaleux qu’un groupe comme Socfin puisse laver son image en arborant le bourgeon de Bio Suisse
Maximizing the capture of returns, carbon, and duration in Canadian row crop land investments
- GAI
- 12 Mar 2021
Investors trying to decide what world farmland market in which to allocate capital may want to consider an advantage the Canadian market can offer – the ability to participate via an open-ended structure.
Brasil: Isolados da Terra Indígena Massaco na mira da privatização
- IHU
- 11 Mar 2021
Em programa Adote Um Parque, governo quer passar para mãos de empresas privadas território com presença de indígenas em isolamento voluntário, condição que exige alto conhecimento especializado e consulta a entidades indígenas.
FarmTogether closes the largest single-asset crowdfunded farmland investment
- PRNewswire
- 11 Mar 2021
The deal size reflects the growing demand for farmland investments, as investors seek alternative assets amid heightened market volatility, fears of inflation, an emphasis on sustainability, and more.
Destruction: Certified
- Greenpeace
- 11 Mar 2021
A new Greenpeace report shows how certification schemes end up greenwashing agricultural products linked to deforestation, ecosystem destruction and rights abuses.
¿Quiénes concentran la tierra en Argentina?
- Canal Abierto
- 10 Mar 2021
El 40% del territorio argentino, 65 millones de hectáreas, está en manos de 1.200 terratenientes. ¿Quiénes son, cuáles son los orígenes del latifundio y por qué cada vez hay más propietarios extranjeros? Claves de un informe reciente elaborado por el Instituto de Estudios y Formación (IEF-CTA).
Brasil: investigación judicial por la venta en Facebook de tierras en el Amazonas
- La Vanguardia
- 10 Mar 2021
El Supremo Tribunal Federal de Brasil estudia un caso de venta ilegal de tierras propiedad de pueblos indígenas, tras una investigación de la BBC
Zimbabwe told to “immediately” stop eviction of Chilonga people
- Pindula
- 10 Mar 2021
A group of Civil society groups in Zimbabwe has told the government to immediately withdraw the Statutory Instrument that legalises the eviction of Chilonga people in Chiredzi to grow feed for a dairy company.
The Indigenous Kinggo’s struggle to defend Papua's customary forest
- WRM
- 09 Mar 2021
Indonesia is the world’s largest exporter of palm oil and Papua is the new frontier. Kinggo indigenous group that owns the customary forest in Boven Digul Regency, Papua is fighting to protect their land against subsidiary of Korean palm oil giant, the Korindo Group.
Resistance against industrial oil palm plantations in West and Central Africa
- WRM
- 09 Mar 2021
Grassroots organisations and community leaders from across the region have been organizing, mobilizing, raising their voices, and networking among each other to stop this destructive and violent occupation of their land.
‘Gender’ in the palm oil industry and its RSPO label
- WRM
- 09 Mar 2021
If the plantation model in itself is understood as a violent, destructive, structurally racist and patriarchal one, can corporate gender-specific policies do more than cover up this violence and destruction?
Edible oil processor Bidco Uganda undertakes second palm oil production project to boost output
- Food Business Africa
- 09 Mar 2021
The joint venture by Wilmar, Josovina Commodities and Bidco Africa Ltd is establishing its second palm oil project on Buvuma Island and targets to have 1,000ha under trees this year and 5,000ha in four years