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Zombo leaders give 10 acres of land for constructing a tea factory
- TND News
- 16 September 2022
Elite Agro of UAE starts aquiring land for tea production and processing in Uganda
Lutte pour les forêts : «Ce vote européen est un premier pas important»
- Reporterre
- 14 September 2022
Le Parlement européen a voté un projet de règlement contre la déforestation importée qui interdirait à des groupes comme Casino de vendre des produits issus de l'accaparement des terres, selon Marie Toussaint
European Parliament votes in favour of strong deforestation-free products law
- Earthsight
- 14 September 2022
The law seeks to impose supply chain due diligence obligations on companies that import and trade forest risk commodities, such as cattle, soy and wood.
US farmland investment trust seeks to raise £200m in London IPO
- IP&E
- 12 September 2022
Intl Farming Investment Management is seeking to raise £200m as it lists a US farmland investment trust on the London Stock Exchange
Oil palm plantations and water grabbing: Ivory Coast and Gabon
- WRM
- 12 September 2022
Industrial palm oil production in West and Central Africa is mainly controlled by five multinational corporations, and could continue expansion. Plantations take up large tracts of land and water. The current water crisis in these territories would not exist if corporations had not grabbed the land from communities.
From Asia to Africa: Tentacles of oil palm plantations are squeezing communities dry
- WRM
- 12 September 2022
There is no other crop that has grown faster globally in the last decade than palm oil. This almost uncontrollable expansion leaves a deep trail of destruction and conflicts around it. As companies take over more community land, they also grab the water sources from them.
Oil palm plantations and water grabbing: Ivory Coast and Gabon
- WRM
- 12 September 2022
The impact on water availability for communities that live in and around industrial oil palm plantations is systematic and dramatic.
From Asia to Africa: Tentacles of oil palm plantations are squeezing communities dry
- WRM
- 12 September 2022
As companies take over more community land, they also grab the water sources from them.
New farming project as Morocco pushes development in Western Sahara
- Arab Weekly
- 10 September 2022
Morocco is seeking investors for a $213 million agriculture project in Western Sahara that will establish farms on 5,200 ha for growing fruit, vegetables and animal feed.
A community of over 300 smallholder farmers conned as their land is sold to a local investor without their consent
- Witness Radio
- 09 September 2022
As foreign agribusinesses take over Kiryandongo communities’ fertile land, other local investors are also eyeing the remaining land occupied by the poor families in the southwestern district of Uganda to grab their land.
As a Cameroon palm oil firm gets RSPO certified, it’s also found in breach
- Mongabay
- 09 September 2022
Fresh controversy has emerged over the leading certification scheme for sustainable palm oil after a verification mission exposed ongoing issues around certified oil palm plantations in Cameroon.
Indonesian palm oil billionaire goes on trial
- Asia Sentinel
- 09 September 2022
A tycoon once named one of Indonesia’s richest has gone on trial for alleged corruption estimated to have cost the state the equivalent of US$5.25 billion and caused major environmental damage from the destruction of vast amounts of virgin forest for oil palm plantations.
Alberta MLA and Quebec MNA showing leadership on farmland ownership, says NFU
- NFU
- 09 September 2022
Canada's National Farmers Union applauds the efforts by two provincial members of parliament tabled in their respective provincial legislatures this spring and attempt to curb farmland grabbing by powerful financial actors.
Feminismos de la tierra y de las semillas
- Biodiversidadla.org
- 08 September 2022
El proceso de extranjerización de las tierras partió de la conquista y colonización de America Latina. La lucha por el acceso a la tierra por parte de las mujeres campesinas es, en consecuencia, parte de la lucha anticapitalista, contra la privatización compulsiva producida por la conquista y la colonización, y frente a algunas reformas agrarias
Un député albertain et une député québécoise font preuve de leadership en matière de propriété agricole, déclare l’UNF
- UNF
- 08 September 2022
L’Union nationale des fermiers du Canada applaudit deux projets de loi d’initiative parlementaire qui furent déposés pour tenter de limiter l’accaparement des terres agricoles par de puissants acteurs financiers.