Milltrust Agricultural Investments, which owns farmlands in Australia and New Zealand, has been acquired by UK-based Future Planet Capital.
Le lauréat pour l'Afrique est Aminata Fabba, présidente de la Malen Affected Land Owners Association, paysanne et défenseuse du droit à la terre dans le district provincial de Pujehun. MALOA est un mouvement communautaire qui résiste à la SOCFIN et à d’autres entreprises de biocarburant en Sierra Leone.
- Front Line Defenders
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24 November 2021
The 2021 Front Line Defenders Award Laureates include Aminata Fabba, Chair of the Malen Affected Land Owners Association (MALOA), a farmer and a grassroots land rights defender resisting SOCFIN and other companies in Sierra Leone.
- Front Line Defenders
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24 November 2021
The growing financialisation of Brazilian agribusiness is enabling foreign investment in the industry most responsible for deforestation - and land grabbing
- Intercept
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23 November 2021
ADM, Bunge and Cargill are dealing in conflict-tainted soy sourced from producers in the Cerrado, and in doing so are contributing to land conflict and alleged human rights abuses, in violation of their responsibilities under UN and OECD human rights standards.
- Global Witness
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23 November 2021
Landowners leasing their land to Chinese-run plantations are aware of the many drawbacks associated with banana farming, but still rent out their land, or are sometimes deceived into doing so, because of the limited market for traditional crops as well as the high rents they receive.
- The Irrawaddy
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23 November 2021
Au Québec, les terres agricoles ne sont plus «achetables» car il faut payer jusqu’à 25 000 dollars l’hectare, dans certains cas extrêmes
- Le Soleil
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23 November 2021
Certified by the RSPO in early 2020, Okomu’s motto is “responsible tropical agriculture.” But over the past decade, the company has been embroiled in disputes over land ownership and its use of Nigerian soldiers as a de facto security force for its plantations.
- Mongabay
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22 November 2021
En Mauritanie, les habitants de la localité de Ngawlé, dans le sud du pays, ont protesté contre l’expropriation de leurs terres par le gouvernement mauritanien.
- Senalioune
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22 November 2021
La grande superficie est exploitée par des Maures et mise en location à des Marocains pour l’agrobusiness.
- Le Quotidien
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22 November 2021
The facility in the Republic of Congo will cover the requirements for the company’s production, as well as for local farmers wishing to partake in the Agri Resources Congo outsourcing programme.
Police in riot gear tore down a community’s homes and ripped up crops, highlighting the country’s highly unequal land ownership
- Guardian
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21 November 2021