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Brasil: Em carta ao Senado, bispos da Amazônia pedem a retirada de tramitação do PL da Grilagem
- CIMI
- 04 May 2021
A nota pública assinada por mais de 60 bispos da região afirma que medida terá maior impacto na Amazônia
Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river
- Mongabay
- 04 May 2021
Botum Sakor National Park in southern Cambodia has lost at least 30,000 ha of forest over the past three decades. Environmental degradation go back to the late 1990s when Cambodian government began handing out economic land concessions for commercial plantations and tourist infrastructure.
Cambodia: Firm accused of grabbing indigenous community’s land in Stung Treng
- Phnom Penh Post
- 04 May 2021
Over 30 families from the Kreung indigenous community say that Singapore-based SK Plantations has bulldozed their forests and crops, demolished their homes and sent in security forces to stop them from planting.
Understand FIAgro – The new agribusiness-related investment fund accessible to foreign investors
- FLA
- 04 May 2021
A new type of investment fund was created by Brazil's Congress which may be used for acquisition of Brazilian rural land
Peruvian agribusinesses' interest in acquiring land in Colombia increases
- Fresh Plaza
- 03 May 2021
Colombian Embassy in Peru says Peruvian agribusiness companies have a growing interest in investing in land in Colombia and at least five companies are set to do so in 2021 to grow blueberries and avocados
Le Front marocain de soutien à la Palestine dénonce l'intention du groupe sioniste "Mehadrin" de louer des terres agricoles marocaines
- APS
- 03 May 2021
Le Front dénonce l'accaparement des terres marocaines par "Mehadrin" qui compte louer 455 ha pour la production d'avocats
Brasil: PL da Grilagem entra em votação no Congresso, avançando os tratores do agronegócio a favor da grilagem de terras
- IHU
- 01 May 2021
PL 510/2021, de autoria do senador Irajá Abreu, favorece a expansão dos latifúndios e facilita a regularização da grilagem de terras públicas.
Holding companies to account
- Global Witness
- 30 April 2021
European companies, including oil and rubber giant Socfin, have long profited from human rights abuses, environmental destruction and climate breakdown. This briefing from Global Witness sets out proposals on how to change that under EU law,
RDC: Entretien avec Mme Augin Nolofana, la maman d'un jeune villageois de Mwingi, qui aurait été tué par les agents de la société PHC/KKM
- RIAO-RDC et GRAIN
- 30 April 2021
La mère de Efolafola Nisoni Manu, agé de 20 ans, parle de sa meurtre en février dernier aux mains des policiers et des agents de sécurité de la société de plantations de palmier à huile PHC/KKM.
Madagascar: Worse than the Daewoo project, the Agribusiness Strategy
- CRAAD-OI and TANY
- 29 April 2021
The government of Madagascar has earmarked 4 million hectares for agropoles while at the same time pursuing a 60,000 ha land loan to Elite Agro LLC and revising the land law in favour of investors
Madagascar : Pire que le projet Daewoo, la stratégie nationale de l'agrobusiness
- CRAAD-OI et TANY
- 29 April 2021
Une stratégie nationale de l’agribusiness ambitionne d’aménager 4 millions d’hectares d’agropoles à Madagascar
France - Grosse mobilisation citoyenne pour dénoncer les pratiques illégales des vergers de Fontorbe
- Occitanie Tribune
- 29 April 2021
Plus de 500 personnes se sont retrouvées pour une marche citoyenne contre l'accaparement des terres agricoles par le Domaine de Fontorbe en France