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17 Dec 2020
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TIAA and Harvard’s Brazilian farm deals judged illegal AATR, Rede Social, GRAIN | 17 Dec 2020
Brazil's land agency and a state court have determined that pension fund manager TIAA and Harvard University’s endowment fund illegally acquired hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmlands in Brazil’s ecologically sensitive Cerrado region.
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US pension fund TIAA embroiled in Brazil land-purchase probe Bloomberg | 17 Dec 2020
A top US retirement fund and a major sugar producer have found themselves embroiled in a probe into possible breaches of land-purchase rules in agricultural superpower Brazil.
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Maya communities respond to land predation and FPIC violation in Belize NACLA | 15 Dec 2020
Even after the Maya’s watershed 2015 Caribbean Court of Justice land rights victory, the Government of Belize continues to condone land grabs in Indigenous territory.
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FPIC, palm oil firm and the women of Okomu Vanguard News | 15 Dec 2020
In spite of its lofty ideals, FPIC (free and priori informed consent) has one failing — it has no legal backing.
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How one quarter of the farmland in some states is foreign owned - and China holds by far the most Daily Mail | 14 Dec 2020
Foreign ownership of farmland in some states has surged to as high as 25 per cent as China maintains its position as Australia's most powerful foreign investor.
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Magistrate Court discharges eighteen accused MALOA members Green Scenery | 11 Dec 2020
Those accused were all members of the Malen Affected Land Owners and Users Association (MALOA), advocating for the land rights of their members in the face of the operations of the palm oil company SOCFIN.
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Muted voice of grassroot human rights defender resounds, as Aminata K. Fabba takes on SOCFIN Liberian Observer | 11 Dec 2020
Aminata Fabba, Chairlady of the Malen Land Owners Association, spoke out at the First Peoples’ Hearing of Mano River CSO Platform in Liberia about the abuses here community in Sierra Leone is facing at the hands of SOCFIN.
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Indonesia palm oil traders are failing land and environmental defenders Global Witness | 09 Dec 2020
Two major US commodity traders – ADM and Bunge – are failing to ensure that the hundreds of Indonesian palm oil mills they source from in Indonesia are free from abuse against land and environmental defenders.
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Agrotop to construct large broiler project in Ivory Coast PR Newswire | 09 Dec 2020
The complex to be built by Israel-based Agrotop includes seven broiler farms and a slaughterhouse capable of treating 60,000 birds per week and will be built on 50 hectares of land in Toumodi.
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Grimmway Farms finds a buyer in Indiana Bakersfield | 29 Nov 2020
Indiana-based Teays River Investments has agreed to acquire family-owned Grimmway Farms – the self-proclaimed largest carrot producer in the world – for an undisclosed sum.
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Elusive Investors keep buying and selling – People remain and suffer Bread for All | 19 Nov 2020
Update report on the Addax land grab in Sierra Leone - originally fuelled by European development banks, then taken over by Sunbird Bioenergy and then by Brown Investment Plc
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Minister of Agriculture jeopardises relationship between Sierra Leone and Israel. NightWatchSL | 22 Apr 2020
Sierra Leone’s Minister of Agriculture has blocked a large-scale poultry farm project covering 10,000 acres promoted by two Israeli companies citing “critical commercial risks” that need to be resolved.
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Agrotop to build large-scale breeding farm in Nigeria African Farming | 01 Mar 2019
The newly built Blue Plains Farm, the 4th constructed for the company Agrited, will be located near to Fiditi town, Oyo State on 112 ha of bushland.
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Sénégal : formation aux techniques de plaidoyer contre l’accaparement des terres APS | 15 dec 2020
Des collectifs de défenseurs de droits fonciers se réunissent à Thiès pour une formation aux techniques de plaidoyer contre l’accaparement des terres
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Bagré pôle, dix ans après LeFaso.net | 10 dec 2020
Plusieurs paysans sont attributaires de titres fonciers « cependant, environ 5000 paysans sont toujours dans l’attente ».
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Pour plus de respect des droits humains par les entreprises PaperJam | 07 dec 2020
Le Luxembourg abrite-t-il des entreprises dont l’action est condamnable? On trouve, dans le collimateur de l’initiative, Socfin (société du groupe Bolloré, côté au Luxembourg) et Ferrero.
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Brasil: Operações no mercado de terras do fundo de pensão TIAA e da universidade de Harvard são julgados ilegais GRAIN | 17 Dec 2020
O INCRA e o Tribunal de Justiça da Bahia reconheceram que o fundo de pensão da empresa estadunidense TIAA e o fundo de investimentos da Universidade de Harvard adquiriram ilegalmente centenas de milhares de hectares de terras no Cerrado.
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Terre espropriate, tra i predatori anche la Banca Mondiale, e poi le leggi e persino i terroristi La Repubblica | 14 Dec 2020
Le multinazionali dell’agri-business - si apprende dal sito Africa Rivista, che rilancia un dossier sul Land Grabbing di FOCSIV - sono le prime a cui si pensa quando si tratta di accaparramento delle terre
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Grilagem no Cerrado baiano resvala na Cargill e em fundo de pensão dos EUA Mongabay | 14 Dec 2020
Fornecedora da Cargill, a SLC Agrícola desmatou, em 2020, mais de 5 mil hectares de Cerrado para cultivar soja em Formosa do Rio Preto (BA).
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