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Les spéculateurs fonciers à la conquête des terres
- À l'Encontre
- 08 February 2021
Grâce à la concentration progressive des terres, de plus en plus de paysans sont contraints de se soumettre aux cycles d’exploitation à courte vue des financiers.
Sri Lanka: Indigenous leader goes to court against land allocation
- News First
- 08 February 2021
Leader of the Indigenous community Uruwaarige Wannila Aththo filed a writ application with the Court of Appeal seeking an order to prevent the allocation of indigenous community lands for maize cultivation for leading companies.
La question du foncier agricole bientôt de retour devant le Parlement
- AFP
- 05 February 2021
Si la grande loi foncière promise par le président Emmanuel Macron ne verra pas le jour lors de ce quinquennat, une loi d'"urgence" aura pour objectif d'"éviter l'accaparement et la concentration" des terres en France
La contractualisation entre des maraîchers des Niayes et Senegindia citée en exemple
- APS
- 05 February 2021
Après avoir accumulé 2 000 ha à Mbane pour la production des pommes de terre, la société Senegindia passe à l'agriculture sous contrat
First case in Ecuador recognizes slavery in agriculture
- Thomson Reuters Foundation
- 05 February 2021
123 ex-laborers from the Japanese-owned Furukawa Plantaciones C.A. company – operating 30 plantations on than 2,300 hectares in Ecuador – went before a local judge who ruled their rights had been violated.
Phatisa Food Fund 2 reaches $143 million final close from DFI commitments
- FinDev Canada
- 04 February 2021
CDC Group, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada and BIO announce an $82 million joint commitment to Phatisa Food Fund 2 to invest in agribusiness across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Descubierto un fraude a gran escala con las ayudas de la PAC en Eslovaquia
- Agropopular
- 04 February 2021
Se ha acusado al Estado de complicidad con los defraudadores, que recibían pagos directos por tierras que no eran tierras agrarias o incluso por tierras obtenidas ilegalmente.
BrasilAgro adquire áreas na Bolívia por US$ 30 mi; plantará grãos e cana
- Money Times
- 04 February 2021
A BrasilAgro concluiu nesta quinta-feira as aquisições de quatro sociedades sediadas na Bolívia Acres del Sud, Ombu, Yatay e Yuchan, em operação que consiste na área total de 9,9 mil hectares.
Trader Cargill, pension fund TIAA linked to land grabs in Brazil’s Cerrado
- Mongabay
- 04 February 2021
Global commodities giant Cargill continues to buy soybeans from a farm in Brazil that cultivates on illegally acquired and deforested land, including lands acquired by US teachers’ pension fund TIAA.
Phatisa Food Fund 2 reaches $143 million final close from DFI commitments
- FinDev Canada
- 04 February 2021
CDC Group, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada and BIO invest in Phatisa's second African agribusiness fund, even as Phatisa's first DFI-supported fund, the African Agriculture Fund, remains embroiled in land conflicts.
Le Plan Maroc Vert et la dépossession de la paysannerie : exemple des producteurs de safran à Taliouine
- Siyada
- 03 February 2021
Cet article étudie l’accaparement des richesses des petit·es paysan·nes et de la population locale à travers le Plan Maroc Vert avec l’exemple du safran de Taliouine, Région de Taroudant
ANI secures deal to plant rice in 38,000 hectares of IP lands
- Manila Bulletin
- 02 February 2021
AgriNurture Inc has secured a partnership with Unified Bagobo-Tagabawa Tribe to plant rice and corn in up to 38,000 hectares of ancestral lands in Davao, the Philippines