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03 Mar 2022
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TLG fundraising in Uruguay to buyout and expand portfolio GAI | 02 Mar 2022

TLG manages 20,000 hectares of farmland in Uruguay producing beef, soybeans, rice, and timber on behalf of European pension funds, insurance companies and family offices.

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Australia: Investors pile in for a stake in our biggest beef company Queensland Country Life | 02 Mar 2022

US-based Washington State Investment Board has committed another $A350 million to Queensland-based farm investor Laguna Bay Pastoral Company.

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Benue farm burning: Obasanjo to continue with agricultural investments Pulse | 28 Feb 2022

Hoodlums set ablaze the farmland in Howe, a Gwer local government area in Benue state, Nigeria over probable land indemnity disputes with the natives regarding lands originally owned by the state government.

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Pakistan’s Fatima Group seals $1bn industrial deals with Saudi, Chinese companies Arab News | 28 Feb 2022

The collaboration with Sarh Attaqnia Co and CMEC aims to unlock untapped land resources of Pakistan by bringing fallow lands under cultivation through the Corporate Agriculture Farming initiative.

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Development banks make shameless exit from a colonial land grab in the Congo Collective statement | 28 Feb 2022

Thirty CSOs call on the governments responsible for overseeing the development banks to take action to redress the harms caused to the communities from their investment oil palm plantation company PHC/Feronia.

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Congolese businessman, Katumbi, embraces agriculture Africa News | 26 Feb 2022

DRC businessman and party leader Moïse Katumbi has invested in 15 thousand hectares of maize fields, a staple food of the Congolese people.

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Bashe invites agricultural investors to Tanzania Daily News | 26 Feb 2022

Speaking at Dubai Expo 2020, Tanzania's Minister for Agriculture says his government will accord full support to investors because Tanzania has a large and fertile land for agricultural investment.

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Development finance institutions must include in investments, ‘right to remedy’ UN | 24 Feb 2022

A new report by the UN Human Rights Office gives guidance to development finance institutions to ensure that the projects they finance do not harm people, and that effective remedy is readily available for any potential victims.

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European DFIs sell debt in Plantations et Huileries du Congo SA (PHC) CDC | 22 Feb 2022

BIO of Belgium, CDC of the UK, DEG of Germany and FMO from the Netherlands announce that they will cease to be Lenders to PHC, the operating company of three longstanding palm oil plantations in the DR Congo.

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France : l'accaparement des terres, une pratique silencieuse qui transforme l'agriculture TV5Monde | 01 mar 2022

Dans "Hold-up sur la terre", la journaliste et auteure, Lucile Leclair, parle d'une pratique silencieuse, mais puissante, qui transforme radicalement l’agriculture française : l’accaparement des terres.

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Les banques de développement se retirent sans vergogne d’un accaparement colonial des terres au Congo Collective statement | 28 fev 2022

Trente organisations demandent aux gouvernements responsables de la supervision des banques de développement de prendre des mesures pour réparer les préjudices causés aux communautés par leur investissement dans PHC/Feronia.

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Madagascar: 3000 personnes se cachent dans la forêt à cause d'un litige foncier Collectif TANY | 25 fev 2022

10 communautés malgaches défendent leurs droits fonciers face à la société Cotona Real Estate, qui dit avoir obtenu des titres fonciers sur des terrains que les communautés ont cultivé depuis la période coloniale.

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Haït : l'accaparement des fermes agricoles, un calvaire pour les paysans Le Nouvelliste | 24 fev 2022

L'accaparement des fermes agricoles publiques et privées est un phénomène persistant observé quotidiennement dans le Plateau central du Haïti.

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« Tout ce qui est fait pour l’Afrique sans le peuple africain n’est pas pour l’Afrique » AFSA | 17 fev 2022

Une déclaration prononcée lors du « Sommet des peuples africains » en vue du 6ème Sommet UE-Afrique, exigeant plus d’espace pour les OSC et des mesures pour garantir la justice foncière et l’agroécologie.

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Argentina: los patrones de Corrientes Sudestada | 26 feb 2022

El desastre ambiental que provocan los incendios es inseparable de las explotaciones económicas que se llevan a cabo en esa provincia. Concentración de tierras y el peso de los extranjeros. Las movidas de Sigman, Soros, Grupo Clarín y la Universidad de Harvard.

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