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México: Acusan ejidatarios amenazas de Carroll y gobierno de Barbosa
- E-consulta
- 07 April 2020
Ven presiones para que la empresa pueda extenderse en el municipio de Cuyoaco
Saudi Arabia asks private sector to import 355,000 tonnes of wheat
- Reuters
- 07 April 2020
Saudi Arabia's state grain buyer SAGO is asking Saudi investors with farmland overseas to import 355,000 tonnes of wheat into the kingdom, as major food importers try to increase strategic reserves in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Recette pour le désastre : Le rôle du FMI et de la Banque mondiale dans la financiarisation de l'alimentation et de l'agriculture
- Recipe for disaster: The IMF and World Bank’s role in the financialisation of food and agriculture
- 07 April 2020
Les politiques passées et présentes de la Banque mondiale et du FMI ont apporté un soutien essentiel à la financiarisation de l'alimentation et de l'agriculture. Cela s'est traduit par l'accaparement des terres, l'exposition des petits exploitants agricoles à une forte volatilité des prix, la concentration du pouvoir dans les entreprises agricoles et l'expansion d'une agriculture industrielle néfaste pour le climat. Ces tendances réduisent l'espace politique des États dans un domaine clé de la vie et de l'économie.
Opportunities in the new era of fragility
- GAI
- 07 April 2020
HighQuest Partners has documented an additional 100 ag investors that have made their first investment in food and agriculture in the first quarter of 2020, directly or via allocations to asset managers.
Recipe for disaster: The IMF and World Bank’s role in the financialisation of food and agriculture
- BWP
- 07 April 2020
World Bank and IMF policies have provided key support for the financialisation of food and agriculture, resulting in landgrabs, price volatility, the concentration of power and the expansion of climate-damaging industrial agriculture
Kenya: Trouble brewing in Yala Swamp as villagers accuse tycoons of grabbing their farm
- Kenya News
- 07 April 2020
Villagers say trouble began when a new investor, Lake Agro Limited, entered an agreement with an American investor, Dominion Farms Limited, to take over the swamp for the remaining lease period.
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.