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21 Jan 2021
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Saudi Arabia triples agriculture investments abroad Gulf News | 21 Jan 2021
A fund that supports Saudi agriculture investments abroad on the condition that at least 50 per cent of the project’s crops be exported to the Kingdom has tripled the value of its loans since 2016.
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Feeding the world while saving the planet a 'difficult' balancing act Reuters | 21 Jan 2021
A study of 1,500 large land deals totalling 37 million hectares - across Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and eastern Europe - showed that clearing the land for farming may have emitted about 2.3 gigatonnes of carbon emissions.
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Dwindling number of Africans own land DW | 20 Jan 2021
Researchers say the growing interest of companies in investing in agricultural land is the main cause for land inequality.
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World Bank, EU ready to provide technical support for Ukraine to launch farmland reform UNIAN | 20 Jan 2021
The World Bank and the European Union stand ready to provide technical support and other resources for Ukraine to successfully implement farmland reform, says World Bank economist.
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Bill Gates: America’s top farmland owner Land Report | 18 Jan 2021
The co-founder of Microsoft and his wife rank as the largest private farmland owners in the US, with over 242,000 acres across the country.
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Sexual exploitation and violence against women at the root of the industrial plantation model WRM | 14 Jan 2021
The violence inherent in the colonial plantation model does not spare systems of collective organization, food sovereignty, community care, cultural and language diversity, and ancestral knowledge.
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The financialisation of land sales ORFC | 12 Jan 2021
Watch the recording of a panel discussion from the Oxford Real Farming Conference with FIAN International, Agter and Land Matrix Ukraine
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Prévention des conflits fonciers en rendant impossible l’octroi des Tf sur les terres arables : La Cicodev en phase avec Macky Le Quotidien | 18 jan 2021
Lors de son face-à-face avec la presse le 31 décembre dernier, le chef de l’Etat sénégalais avait dit demandé au «ministre des Finances d’engager des réformes afin qu’il ne soit plus possible d’octroyer des titres fonciers sur les terres arables».
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Bill Gates devient le plus grand exploitant agricole privé des États-Unis Clubic | 15 jan 2021
Le fondateur de Microsoft possède plus de terres agricoles aux États-Unis que n'importe quel propriétaire terrien privé américain, selon The Land Report.
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