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Recherche: Etudes de cas sur les terres et les sols Africains
- AFSA
- 07 April 2020
AFSA lance une invitation à s'impliquer dans la documentation des études de cas sur les terres et les sols africains
Wanted: African land & soil case studies
- AFSA
- 07 April 2020
AFSA invites people to get involved in documenting African land and soil case studies.
L’Ukraine perd ses terres, Zelensky perd le pouvoir
- Donbass Insider
- 06 April 2020
Espérant recevoir une autre tranche du FMI, fin mars 2020, les « serviteurs du peuple » de Zelensky, en alliance avec M. Porochenko, ont vendu les terres de l’Ukraine. Mais ils ne les ont pas vendues tout à fait correctement. En tout cas, du point de vue de l’Occident.
UAE agriculture tech start-up secures $120 million investment commitment
- Reuters
- 06 April 2020
Wafra International, an investment firm owned by the Kuwait state pension agency, is investing $10 million of the new funding in Pure Harvest Smart Farms, and committing $100 million in equity and project financing.
Over $131 billion assets under management in food & ag sector, new GAI Rankings Report finds
- HighQuest
- 06 April 2020
The GAI Rankings Report highlights the significance of capital being raised and deployed to pursue farmland investments, confirming more than 50 million acres globally under management and $51.5 billion in assets under management.
Agriculture: Rising liquidity
- IPE Real Assets
- 06 April 2020
Large institutional investors are pouring capital into global agricultural markets, and Australia has been a key target.
Land seizures and COVID-19: the twin threats to Brazil’s indigenous peoples
- Reuters
- 04 April 2020
While the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the health of Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Amazon, pressure over their traditional lands is increasing as grileiros –individuals who illegally seize land – sense an opportunity to exploit the crisis.
Uganda: Land rights defenders charged with criminal trespass, released on police bond
- witnessradio.org
- 03 April 2020
Soldiers protecting a Kiryandongo Sugar tractor arrested and beat a farmer for attempting to stop the tractor from ploughing up his 4 acre maize farm.
Lao villagers lose farmland to Chinese banana grower
- Radio Free Asia
- 03 April 2020
Villagers in Laos say a Chinese-owned banana plantation has unfairly acquired the land of 46 families in the northern part of the country, many of whom were coerced by authorities into selling for a miniscule compensation package.
Unravelling the Socfin/Bolloré plantations, thanks to Profundo
- GRAIN
- 02 April 2020
To help share Profundo's report more widely, we made two infographics from it on the ownership structure of the plantations and who benefits from the revenues they generate.
Décryptage des plantations Socfin/Bolloré, grâce à Profundo
- GRAIN
- 02 April 2020
Pour aider à partager plus largement le rapport de Profundo, nous en avons tiré deux infographies sur la structure de propriété des plantations et qui bénéficie des revenus qui en découlent
Cono Sur de América Latina: Mucha tierra en pocas manos
- Agencia de Noticias Biodiversidadla.org
- 01 April 2020
En el Cono Sur se desarrolla una reforma agraria, pero al revés: donde unos pocos tienen mucho y donde muchos no tienen casi nada. Es la situación de la tierra en Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, Paraguay y Uruguay.