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Robin Palmer: The original land campaigner and scholar activist
- The Independent
- 31 Mar 2023
Palmer was central to the debate on “land grabbing” that followed the financial, food and energy crises of 2007-08. He passed away on February 19, 2023.
Colruyt Group and Odeurs brothers work together on the crops of the future
- Fresh Plaze
- 31 Mar 2023
The Beligian retail company Colruyt Group has recently started buying its own farmland to produce foods for its supermarkets.
Mitolo sells stake to Canadian pension fund
- Food & Drink
- 30 Mar 2023
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has acquired a majority stake in Mitolo Family Farms-- Australia’s largest potato producer and owner of one of the country's largest horticultural land aggregations.
Brazil: Stop land grabbing and violence for “fair and sustainable” palm oil!
- Rainforest Rescue
- 30 Mar 2023
Palm oil from Brazil's Agropalma is certified as organic, fair and sustainable, and the oil is sold to food giants like Ferrero, Kellogg’s and Nestlé. But much of the plantation land of this purported model company was likely grabbed illegally.
Cambodia: Rubber plantations, protected areas, REDD+ and other threats: A dramatic loss for forest dwellers
- WRM Bulletin
- 30 Mar 2023
Forests in Cambodia have seen large-scale deforestation with rubber and cassava plantations, illegal logging and other economic interests, but despite the criminalisation, communities are fighting back
Rubber tree monoculture plantations in communal territories in Mabu, Mozambique: Concession of injustices
- JA! & WRM
- 30 Mar 2023
The tentacles of India-based Mozambique Holdings Ltd reached the locality of Mabu in 2013, when it acquired a 10,000-hectare land concession from the old tea company Madal SARL.
Rural peoples in Global South to mobilize 1 million for food, land and climate justice
- PANAP
- 29 Mar 2023
The Global Peoples’ Caravan for Food, Land, and Climate Justice is an awareness-raising and mobilization campaign to demand governments address the interconnected issues of hunger, land and resource grabs, and the climate crisis.
RSPO suspension of Brazil palm oil exporter tied to Mongabay land-grabbing report
- Mongabay
- 29 Mar 2023
A Mongabay investigation into land-grabbing in the Brazilian Amazon has led to the suspension of the sustainability certificate of the country’s second top palm oil exporter
Subasta inédita en Paraguay: rematan una estancia de 24.338 hectáreas que está lista para ampliar la producción agropecuaria
- Agrofy
- 28 Mar 2023
Everdem, empresa pionera del sistema de compra y venta de ganado por pantalla televisada en Paraguay, presentó un evento sin precedentes: la primera subasta pública de una propiedad agropecuaria de dimensiones extraordinarias en una ubicación estratégica en el Chaco Paraguayo.
Exportador brasileño de aceite de palma es acusado de fraude y acaparamiento de tierras en cementerios quilombola
- Mongabay
- 27 Mar 2023
Agropalma, con 107 000 hectáreas registradas y la única empresa brasileña con el certificado de RSPO, está acusada de acaparamiento de tierras en el estado de Pará.
Senegal herders demand return of grazing grounds controlled by US firm
- Mongabay
- 27 Mar 2023
African Agriculture (AAGR), a US company planning to grow alfalfa for livestock feed in Senegal, is set to launch an initial public offering on the Nasdaq exchange. But the land concession it holds used to be part of the Ndiaël nature reserve, a wetland that’s home to many threatened species and a key grazing ground for local herders.
How land became the new oil and the poor lost out
- Sunday Times
- 26 Mar 2023
Journalist Richard Assheton visits the Ndiaël region in northern Senegal, where he meets communities fighting a decade-long campaign against the sale of 20,000 ha, now held by Frank Timis' African Agriculture Inc