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21 Apr 2022
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Qatar aims to maintain 6-month stock of basic commodities at all times: Hassad CEO The Peninsula | 20 Apr 2022
Hassad has invested in international institutions and companies operating in the grain, meat, poultry, livestock and fish sectors, in a number of countries such as Australia, Canada, Turkey, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan.
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Vietnam: HAGL raising capital to expand pig production Asian Agribiz | 20 Apr 2022
Hoang Nguyen Duc, Chairman of HAGL, said the company will build nine more commercial pig farms this year, including two in Laos and two in Cambodia.
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Foreign investment in U.S. cropland nearly tripled in past decade, USDA data shows Investigate Midwest | 19 Apr 2022
The total cropland controlled by foreign interests in 2020 was 10.9 million acres, up from 4.1 million acres in 2010.
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Get big or get out: Trying to survive in Australia's agriculture industry SBS | 19 Apr 2022
Young people are moving away, foreign and domestic investors are moving in and smaller farms are being swallowed up.
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Sierra Leone: 1,475 MALOA members sign petition objecting to the RSPO certification of SOCFIN Green Scenery | 19 Apr 2022
The Malen Affected Land Owners and Users Association has submitted a petition signed by 1,475 of its members objecting to the certification of SOCFIN by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
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Turkey’s ambitious project in Sudan turns into a fiasco Nordic Monitor | 17 Apr 2022
Turkey has been planning since 2014 to meet a significant portion of its food needs by cultivating farmland leased in Sudan but lands have yet to be allocated and there are no staff working at the project's agricultural company.
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Ecuadorean blueberry investment fund Aviation Analysis | 17 Apr 2022
The first “Ecuadorian Fruits and Vegetables Export Investment Fund” for local and foreign investors has begun with 10 hectares planted in the canton of Batat.
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Belgian farmers outraged at ‘systematic’ farmland acquisition by Colruyt Brussles Times | 16 Apr 2022
Around 150 farmers demonstrated in the Flemish-Brabant city of Halle against the supermarket chain Colruyt, which they claim is buying up too much farmland in Belgium.
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Congo, Rwanda sign agricultural land concession agreement FRA | 16 Apr 2022
According to the inked deal, Congo will grant Rwanda 12,000 hectares of exploitable land in at least three Departments in the south of the country.
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Afghan gov't inaugurates major agro project in eastern Laghman province Xinhua | 15 Apr 2022
The Taliban-run administration inaugurates a US$230M agricultural project covering 20,000 hectares in the eastern Laghman province that will be a joint venture with the private sector and will produce for export.
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African Agriculture Inc: Working to boost food security, protect environment Vanguard | 15 Apr 2022
African Agriculture Inc’s vision, according to Gora Seck, President of the Board, LFT Senegal, is to create 5,000 jobs, sow over 20,000 hectares and develop exports of alfalfa to other countries.
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The digitalisation of land: more data, less land GRAIN | 15 Apr 2022
The digitalisation of information on land and natural resources is exacerbating land grabbing in the remaining agricultural frontiers of Latin America.
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South Sudan: Green Horizon announces new start Juba Monitor | 30 Oct 2021
The Israeli company has farms in Juba and Jebel Ladu in Central Equatoria State, Bor in Jonglei State, Renk in Upper Nile, and Torit, Eastern Equatoria State, as well as Community Commercial Farming Projects in Wau, Gok and Rumbek towns.
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Allocution de bienvenu Synaparcam | 16 avr 2022
Allocution de bienvenu d’un des Chefs Traditionnel des Communautés Mbonjo suite à la visite de courtoisie et prise de contact du nouveau Directeur de Plantation SOCAPALM par intérim de Dibombari.
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Colruyt accusée d'accaparer les terres agricoles au détriment des fermes familiales RTBF | 16 avr 2022
En Belgique, la chaîne de supermarchés Colruyt a acheté plus de 175 hectares de terres agricoles à un prix très fort, devenant un symbole de l’accaparement des terres en Belgique.
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Casino, EDF, Suez, TotalEnergies: pourquoi la bataille mondiale entre ONG et multinationales se passe en France Challenges | 08 avr 2022
Nombre d'entreprises sont poursuivies en France pour des faits commis à l'étranger et pas forcément par leurs filiales. L'avocate et ex-ministre Noëlle Lenoir explique la nouvelle donne juridique qu'impose le "devoir de vigilance".
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Los asesinatos por conflictos en el campo en Brasil crecieron un 75 % en 2021 EFE | 18 abr 2022
Los asesinatos por conflictos en el campo en Brasil escalaron un 75 % en 2021, un aumento que refleja "el abandono y la acción deliberada contra la vida de las personas" en el Gobierno del presidente Jair Bolsonaro, denunció este lunes la Comisión Pastoral de la Tierra
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Brasil. La Amazonía representa el 97% de las áreas de conflicto territorial en Brasil, señala CPT Resumen Latinoamericano | 18 abr 2022
Según la Comisión Pastoral de la Tierra, la Amazonía representa 82% de los acaparamientos de tierra en Brasil en 2021
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Digitalización agraria: más datos menos tierras GRAIN | 13 abr 2022
Para corporaciones e inversionistas, el acceso a informaciones actualizadas de un “perfil digital de tierras” permite localizar, cuantificar la oferta y la demanda y fijar precios sobre las tierras, la producción y los recursos naturales, así como los créditos de carbono.
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El camino institucional de Sembrador Capital con el que apunta a invertir US$1.000 millones en la industria agrícola Red Agricola | 21 dic 2021
Entrevista con José Miguel Fernández, fundador y gerente general de Sembrador Capital
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