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Los dueños extranjeros de las tierras argentinas
- Página 12
- 15 February 2022
El reclamo por Lago Escondido puso la lupa en la extranjerización de la tierra
L’engouement des fonds d’investissement pour l’agriculture et l’agroalimentaire
- Commodafrica
- 15 February 2022
Aujourd’hui, on compte 730 fonds d’investissement spécialisés dans le secteur de l’alimentation et l’agriculture, qui gèrent plus de $120 milliards, contre seulement environ 50 fonds en 2005
ONU : 72 643 signatures pour l’arrêt des affaires avec le Groupe Bolloré
- Sauvons la forêt
- 14 February 2022
Sauvons la forêt et l’Oakland Institute ont envoyé une pétition de 72 643 signatures à trois organisations des Nations Unies - le PNUD, le PAM et l’Unicef - afin de les alerter sur leurs relations d’affaire avec le Groupe Bolloré, qui est accusé de corruption et, via sa filiale Socfin, de liens avec l’accaparement de terres.
72,000 people call on the United Nations to end business with the Bolloré Group
- Oakland Institute
- 14 February 2022
The Bolloré Group is involved in rubber and oil palm plantations through its 39.4 percent shareholdings of SOCFIN, which controls close to 400,000 hectares of concessions for plantations in Asia and Africa.
Unmasking Sarai Group, vicious wolves In sheep skin
- Soko Directory
- 14 February 2022
Should Kenyans allow people to run Mumias Sugar who are accused of mass eviction by their sugarcane plantation companies in neighbouring Uganda?
Une enquête révèle l’ampleur et les conséquences de l’accaparement des terres en France
- Amis de la terre
- 11 February 2022
La journaliste Lucile Leclair publie aujourd’hui au Seuil, une enquête exclusive sur l’accaparement de milliers d’hectares de terres par des multinationales de l’agroalimentaire et de la cosmétique.
Louisiana Teachers OKs $50m to PGIM’s US agriculture fund
- IPE
- 10 February 2022
The Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana has approved a $50m commitment to PGIM’s US agriculture fund.
Camvert gets incentives for its XAF237 bln Campo agro-industrial complex
- Business in Cameroon
- 09 February 2022
Camvert SA, an agricultural production company controlled by Cameroonian business mogul Aboubakar al Fatih, recently signed an investment agreement with the API, Cameroon’s agency in charge of the promotion of private investments.
LACERA buys into TIAA-CREF’s global farmland funds
- IPE
- 09 February 2022
Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) is buying into TIAA-CREF’s global farmland funds with a $456m investment.
Babiš feels the pinch as new Czech farm chief rewrites EU subsidy rules
- Politico
- 08 February 2022
An EU audit found that the Czech Republic's former prime minister, the billionaire Andrej Babiš, had improperly kept control of his food and farming conglomerate Agrofert while in office.
Meet the investors behind the PHC oil palm plantations in DRC
- Oakland Institute
- 08 February 2022
As community efforts to reclaim 100,000 ha of their ancestral land are met with violent repression, unlawful arrests, and murder, a new report exposes the financiers profiteering from the plantations in the DR Congo.
Gates Foundation among investors backing troubled DRC palm plantation
- Mongabay
- 08 February 2022
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation along with a number of prominent US university endowments are among the top investors in a troubled set of oil palm plantations in the DRC, according to a report from the Oakland Institute.