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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.
Cameroon peasants criticize large companies
- Jiji
- 28 August 2019
Emmanuel Elong, a farmer from Cameroon, criticized land grabbing by foreign companies at a side event during the 7th African Development Conference (TICAD7) in Yokohama City.
World Bank allocates Ukraine $200 mln for agricultural development project
- UKInform
- 28 August 2019
The World Bank and the Finance Ministry of Ukraine signed an agreement to raise a loan in the amount of USD 200 million for the programme Accelerating Private Investment in Agriculture.
Is nationalisation and state custodianship of land a solution? The case of Mozambique
- Amandla!
- 26 August 2019
The attainment of democratic rights – including the right to access, control and defend land – must be defended and advanced through everyday struggles; laws and policies on their own won’t make significant change
As the Amazon burns, we call on Harvard to cease its investment in farmland
- Medium
- 26 August 2019
Fires in the Amazon are the direct result of human activity. Harvard’s stake in agribusiness contributes to this crisis, says students of Divest Harvard
Scandale foncier à Mbane : Tahirou Sarr encore à la manoeuvre
- 23 August 2019
Plusieurs villages traditionnels de la commune de Mbane, au Sénégal sont à risque d'être déguerpis par la Société d’intermédiation Financière et de Commerce qui vient de racheter un bail pour un terrain de 8.000 ha
La certification RSPO est un écoblanchiment en Afrique
- FOE Africa
- 22 August 2019
Les groupes Amis de la Terre Afrique ont décrit la convergence des entreprises de plantation de palmiers à huile sous l’égide de la Table ronde sur l’huile de palme durable comme promoteurs d’écoblanchiment.
CDC appoints independent team to investigate the death of Joël Imbangola Lunea
- CDC
- 22 August 2019
CDC, the UK’s development finance institution, has appointed an independent team to investigate the death of Mr Joël Imbangola Lunea, that took place on 21 July 2019 in Bempumba, Democratic Republic of the Congo.