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One of the most fertile nations wants to feed the world
- Bloomberg
- 20 June 2021
Two-thirds of polled Ukrainians are against opening up the country's farmland to foreigners
Corporate agriculture and agricultural land grab: Farmers’ call to action
- PKMT
- 20 June 2021
Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek calls for an end to neoliberal agricultural laws and corporate control of the food and agriculture sector, including an end to local and foreign private investments in the dairy and livestock sector.
La Socapalm accusée de pratiques néocoloniales dans ses plantations
- EcoMatin
- 20 June 2021
La filiale du groupement Palmcam (Palmeraies du Cameroun) est sur le gril des organisations non gouvernementales de défense de la nature, et de la presse hollandaise
Foreign companies to invest more than $500 Million in Kazakhstan’s agro-industrial sector, chemical industry
- Astana Times
- 19 June 2021
Newly announced foreign investments in agriculture from Dutch, Turkish and Arab companies includes a $273 million, 400,000 sow per year pig farm and meat processing plant in East Kazakhstan.
A senior lands officer is arrested in connection to the Kiryandongo district land grab
- Witness Radio
- 17 June 2021
The stolen land belonged to families that are part of the 35000 people being forcefully displaced by three multinational companies including Great Seasons SMC Limited, Agilis Partners Limited, and Kiryandongo Sugar Limited.
RDC : le Parlement refuse de lever l’immunité de Augustin Matata Ponyo cité dans le scandale agroindustriel de Bukanga-Lonzo
- Agence Ecofin
- 16 June 2021
D’après l’Inspection générale des finances, un ancien chef de gouvernement de Joseph Kabila serait le principal « auteur intellectuel » de la débâcle du projet lancé en 2014 sur 80 000 ha
Congo Senate declines to lift former PM's immunity over failed agro project
- Reuters
- 16 June 2021
Congo's Senate on Tuesday rejected a request by prosecutors to lift former Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon's immunity so they could indict him for his role in a failed agriculture project in which investigators say $200 million disappeared.
En Indonésie, l’huile de palme contre le climat et les droits humains
- Reporterre
- 12 June 2021
L’huile de palme nuit gravement aux droits humains, selon un rapport de Human Rights Watch (HRW), publié jeudi 3 juin.
Stop Harvard Land Grabs Public Forum
- Harvard Stop Land Grabs
- 10 June 2021
On May 3rd, 2021, we gathered with frontline land defenders, researchers, students, alumni, faculty, staff, and community members from around the world to learn about Harvard’s farmland investments and build power.
Ribeirinha community conquers collective right to land
- Rede Social
- 10 June 2021
The victory is a result of the organization of the Collective of Communities Impacted by Agribusiness, created by rural communities in the Cerrado region of Piauí to resist land grabbing and the advance of agribusiness monocultures.
More women are going to be sexually abused and forced to lose their land to the rich/investors as Uganda goes into a semi lockdown of 42 days
- Witness Radio
- 10 June 2021
Opondo Cathy says agents of the multinational agribusiness company Agilis Partners took advantage of the last lockdown to rape her, torch her house and grab her land.
Israeli conglomerate set to invest $60M in Colombian Hass avocado production
- Fresh Fruit Portal
- 08 June 2021
Managro, an Israeli-based agricultural investment conglomerate, is reportedly planning to buy 3,700 hectares of land in Colombia for Hass avocado production.