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Law and political economy of commodity rushes: Reflections on “land grabbing” in the Global South
- Law and Political Economy
- 05 September 2019
Law plays a key role in shifting control over the world’s natural resources, including agricultural land.
Congo-Brazzaville – Henri Djombo : « Nos terres sont là, disponibles »
- Jeune Afrique
- 05 September 2019
Le ministre d’État chargé de l’Agriculture, de l’Élevage et de la Pêche du Congo dit que son pays est sollicité par une société chinoise qui souhaite exploiter 300 000 ha avec des cultures industrielles afin d’alimenter les marchés régionaux chinois
Zambian agribusiness firm to invest US$200m in a palm oil project
- FBA
- 05 September 2019
Consolidated Farming Limited, subsidiary of Sable group, will be investing US$200 million in setting up a large-scale palm oil project, with a 10,000 ha anchor farm and an out-grower scheme.
Commentary on the draft UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts
- Afronomics Law
- 03 September 2019
This commentary considers the access to food component of the draft UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts and voices its silence on intellectual property rights.
Le producteur malaisien d’huile de palme Sime Darby veut quitter le Liberia, d’ici la fin 2019
- Agece Ecofin
- 02 September 2019
Sur 220 000 hectares de palmeraies prévues, seulement 10 000 hectares ont été plantés jusqu’ici.
China brings 80 investors to Tanzania
- All Africa
- 02 September 2019
An 80-member business delegation from China's Shandong Province will arrive in Tanzania to look on how to scale up agriculture export and import trading in the area of agriculture equipment and products.They will exchange views on motor vehicle- new and used, aquatic products, marine culture industry, fishery, as well as livestock industry.
Uprooted
- SEt Asia Globe
- 29 August 2019
Landgrabs, deforestation and an increasingly-globalised Khmer culture are encroaching deep into the lands and lore of Cambodia's indigenous Bunong people
As the Amazon burns, students call on Harvard to divest from farmland holdings
- The Crimson
- 29 August 2019
As the Amazon rainforest continues to burn, members of Divest Harvard — a student group demanding the University divest from fossil fuels — are renewing their calls on Harvard to withdraw its holdings in farmland across the globe, including in Brazil.
The man who's burning the Amazon
- Bad News
- 29 August 2019
Blackstone, owned by a top US Republican party donor, has launched two funds dedicated to buying farmland in Brazil that work with Brazilian companies to get around laws restricting direct foreign ownership.
À Montréal, écologistes et défenseurs des droits autochtones disent à Bolsonaro de dégager
- Le Devoir
- 29 August 2019
Plusieurs investisseurs internationaux présents au Brésil contribuent à une gestion des terres non durable et bafouent les droits de la personne, notamment La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ).
Evicted for carbon credits: Norway, Sweden, and Finland displace Ugandan farmers for carbon trading
- Oakland Institue
- 29 August 2019
Report brings forward irrefutable evidence that the Norwegian forestry and carbon credit company, Green Resources, forcibly evicted villagers around their plantation in Kachung, Uganda.
Biocarburant : 448 milliards de FCFA pour une usine de bioéthanol
- Gabon Review
- 28 August 2019
Une délégation d’hommes d’affaires chinois s’est entretenue avec le ministre de la Promotion des investissements du Gabon sur un projet de bioéthanol qui nécessitera 83 000 hectares de terres pour la production de manioc.