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Pakistan sweetens terms to lure Saudi investment
- Tribune
- 20 April 2024
Pakistan has offered Saudi Arabia a cattle farm in Punjab with 50,000 acres of land on lease for corporate farming
PSP Investments adds 8,000ha farmland to Australian agriculture portfolio
- IPE Real Assets
- 18 April 2024
Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), the largest foreign institutional investor in Australian agriculture, has acquired more than 8,000 hectares of farmland in New South Wales from Duxton Farms for A$70m.
Snack giant PepsiCo sourced palm oil from razed Indigenous land
- TBIJ
- 18 April 2024
The US food and drink giant PepsiCo has been linked through its supply chain to Amazon deforestation and the invasion of Indigenous lands in Peru, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), Mongabay and Peruvian outlet Ojo Público can reveal.
Comment lutter contre l’accaparement des terres arables en RDC ?
- Radio Okapi
- 17 April 2024
Entretien avec l’ingénieur Ignace Bwaya Biza , consultant à la Confédération paysannes du Congo (COPACO/PRP).
Governor Oyebanji urges traditional rulers to remain champions of peace and economic growth, unveils agribusiness initiative with Cavista Holdings.
- Cavista Holdings
- 17 April 2024
He urged them to take advantage of their status and position in the community to regularly communicate government policies and programmes to their people, mobilize support for new investments, and act as mediators where required to ensure peaceful co-existence between businesses and communities.
LDPI working paper series: International conference on global land grabbing - Bogota, Colombia
- Agrarian Conversations
- 17 April 2024
This LDPI Working Paper Series includes work in progress presented at the 2024 Global Land Grabbing Conference in Bogotá, addressing urgent challenges related to land, water, and natural resource grabbing.
La lucha de una comunidad agrícola por tierra y legado en Sri Lanka
- Global Voices
- 16 April 2024
El problema comenzó cuando la agroempresa británica Booker Tate puso en marcha el proyecto de desarrollo azucarero de Bibile con el objetivo de establecer una fábrica de caña de azúcar y grandes plantaciones.
Zara y H&M vinculadas a la deforestación ilegal, el acaparamiento de tierras y la violencia
- Rebelión
- 16 April 2024
Los jeans, las sudaderas con capucha, los pantalones cortos y los calcetines de H&M y Zara vendidos en España están vinculados a la deforestación ilegal a gran escala, el acaparamiento de tierras, la violencia y la corrupción.
Minister launches 500,000 hectares of farming land in S Papua
- Antara
- 16 April 2024
Indonesia's Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman and the South Papua provincial government launched 500 thousand hectares of rice fields in the region to increase agricultural production, both regionally and nationally.
Zara, H&M: The European retail giants tied to land grabbing and deforestation in Brazil
- Euronews
- 15 April 2024
The world's biggest cotton certification scheme is giving the green light to clothes made from cotton farmed on mega estates ‘plundering’ the Cerrado.
Resident wants legality of land leases to tea firms to be investigated
- The Standard
- 15 April 2024
In a fresh push to have the lands reverted to local communities, Henry Belsoi, a resident of Chesoen in Bomet Central said the leases held by Unilever and other multinational tea companies should have ended after the declaration of independence in 1963.
India: Over 10,000 hectares identified for tree plantation across 13 states under ‘green credit’ programme
- Times of India
- 12 April 2024
Over 500 land parcels spanning 4,885 hectares — the size of nearly 6,000 football fields — across 10 states have been approved for tree plantation ever since the Green Credit Programme kicked off in the country.
Déforestation illégale, accaparement des terres… Les géants de la fast fashion H&M et Zara épinglés par une ONG
- La Tribune
- 11 April 2024
H&M et Zara sont mis en cause par l'ONG britannique Earthsight pour être liés à des activités de déforestation illégale ou de violence dans des plantations de coton détenues par leurs sous-traitants.
Five things to know about the global land rush and how to stop it
- Salena Tramel
- 11 April 2024
A recent gathering in Colombia, organized by the Land Deal Politics Initiative, was an important moment to assess the current state of play and ready strategies to face the current and impending onslaught of land grabs.
Peoples Company - White Paper: The Evolution of farmland as an asset
- GAI
- 11 April 2024
This new white paper titled The Evolution of Farmland as an Asset, released by Steve Bruere, president, Peoples Company, and Ailie C. Elmore, instructor, University of Illinois, takes you behind the curtain, not only recounting the history of farmland investment, but examining why events occurred, and how those events drove, and are continuing to drive, the development of a promising and worthy asset class.