New Guinea, contains the world’s largest planned oil palm plantation. Covering 2,800 square kilometers the Tanah Merah project is nearly the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. However, the true owners of the seven concessions that make up the project remain hidden through a shroud of corporate secrecy.
A new study suggests the effects of large-scale land acquisitions are detrimental to food security and the livelihood of smallholder farmers.
- Salaam Gateway
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13 April 2022
Para corporaciones e inversionistas, el acceso a informaciones actualizadas de un “perfil digital de tierras” permite localizar, cuantificar la oferta y la demanda y fijar precios sobre las tierras, la producción y los recursos naturales, así como los créditos de carbono.
Com o esvaziamento do Incra no atual governo, grilagem avança de forma avassaladora
- Brasil de Fato
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12 April 2022
Students at the University of Iowa Campaign have joined a campaign demanding TIAA divest billions from oil, coal, and fracked gas and to stop its acquisition of farm and timberland around the world by 2025.
- Daily Iowan
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12 April 2022
Scotland’s land market has been transformed as corporate buyers swoop in for farmland in an effort to offset carbon emissions.
La société américaine African Agriculture Inc., qui détient la totalité des Fermes de la Teranga avec ses 20 000 ha dans le nord du Sénégal, va procéder à une introduction en bourse afin de lever des fonds pour sa première mise en culture de 10 000 ha.
US-based African Agriculture Inc., which wholly owns the 20,000 ha Les Fermes de la Teranga in northern Senegal, is going to do an IPO to raise funds for its first 10,000 ha planting.
The farm in Contesti commune has an area of 2,100 ha of land and is the fourth core farm of the publicly trade company, after Rosiori, Videle, and Frumusani.
- Romania Insider
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11 April 2022
Launch of the report and debate between the authors and international experts on development finance
- Univ of Antwerp
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11 April 2022
Hoy, de las diez principales exportadoras de fruta en Chile, cinco están en manos de compañías foráneas
La société PHC a mené des expéditions punitives contres certains leaders communautaires après la tenue d'une march pacifique qui avait dénoncer l'accaparement des terres pour les plantations de palmiers à huile.