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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
University of Iowa faculty rebuke farmland investors for fueling land grabs and corporate takeover of agriculture
- ActionAidUSA
- 28 April 2021
The University of Iowa Faculty Senate voted 42 to 7 to pass a resolution calling on the university to hold the financial services provider TIAA accountable for its investments in global farmland.
Ontario Teachers’ invests in four family-run orchards to create single 500 ha business
- GAI
- 27 April 2021
The newly merged entity in Victoria, Australia will include more than 500 hectares of orchards, water rights, two packing houses and additional land.
Desmatamento da Amazônia com Bolsonaro visa a grilagem, aponta dirigente do MST
- MST
- 27 April 2021
Passadas algumas décadas, o solo e o meio ambiente se exaurem e esses latifundiários avançam para fronteira agrícola com esse sistema de extração madeireira-desmatamento-queimada-grilagem.
Liberia: 'We don't want to threaten anybody'
- New Dawn
- 26 April 2021
Responding to an appeal from a parliamentary representative to rectify the current Liberia Agriculture Company concession agreement, Liberia's President Weah said his administration don't want to threaten anybody.
Agri Resources Group, un acteur investi dans l’agriculture durable et la transformation agro-alimentaire en Afrique
- Agence Ecofin
- 26 April 2021
Agri Resources, filiale du controverse Monaco Resources Group, a signé le 21 avril un protocole d’accord avec le Bénin pour la production du riz local sur 10 000 ha.
Mahi Pono and paraquat: The 2020 sequel
- Politics on Maui
- 23 April 2021
A farm in Maui owned by Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board sprayed some 240 gallons of Gramoxone (paraquat) eight times from January to May, 2020
RIAO-RDC exige une enquête internationale après le mort d'une autre villageois aux mains des gardes industrielles de la PHC LOKUTU
- RIAO-RDC
- 23 April 2021
Monsieur Manu Efolafola a été jeté dans le fleuve Congo sous menotte par les policiers et gardes industrielles de la société de plantations d'huile de palme PHC FERONIA/KKM en RD Congo.
Kuramo Capital accuses Congo investment partner of looting plant
- Bloomberg
- 22 April 2021
A Kuramo Capital fund filed suit in Delaware seeking to oust the manager of its investments in DR Congo palm oil plant over his alleged scheme to loot the business.
The battle for Zimbabwe’s land never ended
- Vice
- 22 April 2021
Outrage over a mass displacement for a dairy farm has seized the national conversation in Zimbabwe, where it is impossible to talk about land without interrogating the legacy of colonialism and the present reality of anti-Blackness
After being tortured by the army, the land rights defender is charged and remanded to prison
- Witness Radio
- 22 April 2021
A community land rights defender who was kidnapped from his home and tortured by Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) soldiers guarding Kiryandongo Sugar Limited has been arraigned before a magistrate court in Kiryandongo district and charged with threatening violence.