Uganda: Leaders block sacking of 400 rice farm employees
- The Monitor
- 15 April 2020
Kalungu leaders have blocked a move by the proprietors of Lukaya Natural Rice Farm to sack 412 casual workers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Land conflicts escalate with spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia
- Mongabay
- 15 April 2020
On March 21, security personnel from the palm oil firm PT Artha Prigel clashed with farmers in Lahat district, in South Sumatra province. Two farmers were killed in the fighting, the latest flare-up in a conflict that goes back nearly three decades. Locals accuse the company — a subsidiary of the Sawit Mas Group, which supplies oleochemicals to Procter & Gamble — of stealing their land. Activists have denounced the escalation in the conflicts, saying businesses shouldn’t be taking advantage of the country’s focus on dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic to further their own — often illegal — interests.
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Coronavirus may help spur aquaculture investments in Africa
- Undercurrent News
- 14 April 2020
IDH is working with FMO, the Dutch development bank -- which last year granted Zambian fully integrated tilapia operation Yalelo a $10.5 million senior secured loan facility -- to draw up guidelines for investing in African aquaculture.
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Ukraine's Rada fails to pass all draft resolutions blocking farmland bill
- UNIAN
- 14 April 2020
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has failed to pass any of the draft resolutions submitted by lawmakers who propose that the parliament's previous decision to adopt the bill on the launch of the farmland market be canceled and its signing be blocked.
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En Roumanie, une agriculture de subsistance aux côtés des agroholdings
- Avenir Agricole
- 10 April 2020
Les agroholdings sont financées par des capitaux privés étrangers ou des fonds d’investissement. “Ils travaillent 1 000 ha comme un seul.”
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AAM's diversified agriculture fund acquires Terrick Station as cornerstone asset
- GAI
- 09 April 2020
The Australian fund has confirmed that it has completed an off-market deal to acquire Terrick Terrick, a 55,000-hectare property from long-time owners Russel Pearson and the Pearson family, for an undisclosed amount.
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Bucolic botch: Why big farms flopped in Ethiopia
- Economist
- 09 April 2020
Too few investors knew the land; too many deals were crooked. Yet officials hint that the government wants to promote huge farms once more, this time by expanding wheat production to boost food security.
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« La Chine reste un acteur discret dans l’agriculture africaine malgré les nombreuses polémiques » (Fred Gale)
- Agence Ecofin
- 08 April 2020
« Les acquisitions foncières (de la Chine) ne sont pas aussi immenses que l’attention qui leur est consacrée. »
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Participation of legal entities in land turnover, conducting of referendum on time to determine ultimate success of land reform – IFC
- Interfax
- 07 April 2020
The International Finance Corporation welcome Ukraine's newly adopted land law but indicates it doesn't go far enough
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México: Acusan ejidatarios amenazas de Carroll y gobierno de Barbosa
- E-consulta
- 07 April 2020
Ven presiones para que la empresa pueda extenderse en el municipio de Cuyoaco
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Saudi Arabia asks private sector to import 355,000 tonnes of wheat
- Reuters
- 07 April 2020
Saudi Arabia's state grain buyer SAGO is asking Saudi investors with farmland overseas to import 355,000 tonnes of wheat into the kingdom, as major food importers try to increase strategic reserves in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Recette pour le désastre : Le rôle du FMI et de la Banque mondiale dans la financiarisation de l'alimentation et de l'agriculture
- Recipe for disaster: The IMF and World Bank’s role in the financialisation of food and agriculture
- 07 April 2020
Les politiques passées et présentes de la Banque mondiale et du FMI ont apporté un soutien essentiel à la financiarisation de l'alimentation et de l'agriculture. Cela s'est traduit par l'accaparement des terres, l'exposition des petits exploitants agricoles à une forte volatilité des prix, la concentration du pouvoir dans les entreprises agricoles et l'expansion d'une agriculture industrielle néfaste pour le climat. Ces tendances réduisent l'espace politique des États dans un domaine clé de la vie et de l'économie.
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