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Interview with Maria Luisa Mendonça
- Free City Radio
- 17 November 2021
Listen to an interview with Maria Luisa Mendonça of Rede Social on US teachers' pension fund TIAA investments in Brazil land grabbing and deforestation.
Govt open to proposal to develop idle land to drive Malaysia’s economy, says deputy minister
- Bernama
- 17 November 2021
The government of Malaysia is open to lease idle land - owned land, government land or reserve land - to the private sector to generate economic activities.
The global land rush, revisited
- Afronomics Law
- 17 November 2021
The global land rush has highlighted deep-seated tensions between competing visions of agriculture, food systems, territory and society.
A giant investment firm paid a university to study one of its biggest assets — farmland
- Illinois Newsroom
- 16 November 2021
In 2013, mammoth US investment company TIAA-CREF gave $5 million to the University of Illinois to fund a research center, branded with the company’s name, that would explore the financial niche of farmland investment.
Leading agriculture company from UAE eyes investment in Guyana
- Newsroom Guyana
- 15 November 2021
Emirati giant Elite Agro LLC is looking for opportunities to invest in specific commodities in the agriculture sector that can be produced in Guyana on a large scale.
UAE’s investor advances interest in Guyana
- Petroleum World
- 15 November 2021
Elite Agro, which farms tens of thousands of hectares in various parts of the world, may invest in the large-scale production of corn and soybean in Guyana, as well as seafood
La marchandisation et la privatisation de la nature progressent en Amérique latine
- A l'encontre
- 15 November 2021
Entretien avec Karin Nansen, membre des Amis de la Terre International et de REDES-Amis de la Terre Uruguay
Palm oil land grabs ‘trashing’ environment and displacing people
- The Guardian
- 15 November 2021
Growing rush for land is destroying ecosystems and disrupting lives to satisfy global demand for goods, study warns
Promotion de l’agro-écologie: La 3e caravane de sensibilisation attendue dans 5 pays de la Cedeao, du 20 Novembre au 11 décembre
- Fraternité Matin
- 14 November 2021
La troisième caravane sous régionale de sensibilisation, d’interpellation et de mobilisation des populations et gouvernants des Etats de l’espace Cedeao, sur l’agro-écologie et la gouvernance foncière inclusive, démarre dans les prochains jours.
NLC blow as court stops Yala Swamp land allocation to Lake Agro Limited
- The Star
- 14 November 2021
The High Court in Siaya, Kenya, has suspended the intended allocation of Yala Swamp land by the National Land Commission to Lake Agro Limited. “The land under Yala Swamp is yet to be registered as community land so that community around the area are allocated their share,” petitioners say.
One in five hectares of oil palm in Indonesia is illegal, report shows
- Mongabay
- 11 November 2021
A fifth of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, the world’s biggest producer of palm oil, are operating illegally inside forest areas that are off-limits to commercial agricultural activity, a new report from Greenpeace shows.
Ancestralité : les Bomono veulent reprendre 200 hectares de terres à la Socapalm
- Cameroun Actuel
- 10 November 2021
Une communauté du Moungo, au Caneroun, s’attaque à l’occupation de vastes espaces majoritairement agricoles
Becs Wilson on the impact of rising interest rates on Aussie farmland
- Weekly Times
- 10 November 2021
US private equity firm Proterra Investment Partners, which owns significant farmland assets in Australia, says farmland investing is going strong, both among domestic and foreign investors
‘Land grabs’ linked to major commodity supply chains will increase
- GT Review
- 09 November 2021
According to research by risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft, which analysed 170 commodities, palm oil and cobalt are at “extreme” risk of land grabs
Lutte contre l’accaparement des terres agricoles : le Sénat vient d’adopter une petite loi
- EurActiv
- 04 November 2021
En France, les sénateurs ont adopté une proposition de loi visant à mieux réguler l’accès au foncier agricole mais elle « ne luttera pas contre les concentrations excessives »