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21 Jul 2022
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Canada’s development finance institution and land grabbing in Africa The Bullet | 20 Jul 2022
Canada's Blended Finance Project interviews Witness Radio and GRAIN about the role public development banks play in facilitating land grabs around the world.
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Ondo farmers protest over govt’s move to sell farmland to private investors Nigerian Tribune | 20 Jul 2022
SAO Agro Services Ltd aided by eight vehicles loaded with security corps and officers of the Nigerian Army invaded Ofosu area with a bulldozer to begin the destruction of farmlands of over 20,000 farmers.
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IFC and Zambeef partner to boost food security, strengthen agribusiness in Zambia Farmers Review Africa | 19 Jul 2022
Zambeef will use the funds to upgrade its feed mill, animal housing, purchase new equipment and develop 1,000 hectares of irrigation land, among other activities.
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Land grabs: governments seeking food security sow the seeds of discontent DOMEdigita | 18 Jul 2022
There will be plenty more scuffles between local populations and new global landlords. But, according to the Financial Times, such fights are unlikely to stem the tide of land investment.
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The mothers of Malen China Dialogue | 15 Jul 2022
The oil palm is native to West Africa, where it plays a vital role in food security and local economies, especially for women. But in Sierra Leone, the arrival of an industrial oil palm plantation has threatened all this.
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Roca Investments sets up new holding in partnership with agri-group RDF Romania Insider | 14 Jul 2022
Romanian private equity company Roca Investments, part of Impetum Group, teamed up with RDF - a farming group developed by Romanian businessmen - to form an investment holding company.
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Commodity or commons: Finance capital and the commodification of land Agrarian Trust | 13 Jul 2022
The most effective means of countering corporate power is to restore control of the land and agricultural knowledge to the communities who live on and with the land.
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Indigenous groups in Tanzania become victims of land grabbing Andalou Agency | 13 Jul 2022
Where village land is formalized to establish wildlife management areas or a large-scale agricultural investment, the interests of powerful actors are often prioritized over those of local communities.
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The Green Coffee Company is now Colombia's #1 largest coffee producer PR Newswire | 12 Jul 2022
Company owned by the US-based Legacy Group acquires 1,389 acres of farmland to bring its total landholdings in Colombia to 6,372 acres, with a total coffee tree count of 7.2 million.
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PSP Investments partners wth WSB on climate analysis of over 3M hectares of farmland and timberland GAI | 12 Jul 2022
The undertaking will be carried out alongside PSP Investments’ local operating partners on more than 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of farmland and timberland.
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God's will or ecological disaster? Mennonite deforestation in Mexico Reuters | 12 Jul 2022
Mennonites are linked to expanding farmland acquisition and deforestation - not always with the right paperwork - in the Yucatan Peninsula
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Iran to use one million hectares of land in Venezuela to grow food Iran International | 10 Jul 2022
An Iranian official says that Venezuela has agreed to provide one million hectares of agricultural land for Iran’s overseas cultivation projects to secure food.
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Sierra Leone’s conflict palm oil certified as sustainable China Dialogue | 08 Jul 2022
Some community members accuse Socfin of land-grabbing and pollution. We visited the company’s plantation in Malen to find out what’s happening beneath the palm fronds.
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Open Letter: AIDESEP repudiates Ocho Sur palm oil group intimidation, demands buyers step up to protect human rights and forests AIDESEP | 07 Jul 2022
AIDESEP calls on Ocho Sur's international buyers to reiterate that they have an obligation to exercise due diligence before purchasing palm oil from this company, as the burden of proof is on them to demonstrate that their palm oil supply chain sources are not implicated in human rights abuses and the deforestation of tropical forests.
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Tyson Foods and Tanmiah of Saudi Arabia sign strategic partnership Globe Newswire | 06 Jul 2022
Tanmiah operates 93 farms as well as 6 hatcheries, 2 feed mills, 4 slaughterhouses, 3 food processing plants, and 13 dry and cold storage facilities located in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE.
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Russia's green light to Iran for extraterritorial cultivation; 100 thousand hectares of land available to Iranian farmers! eghtesadnews | 04 Jul 2022
In early June of this year, a Russian business delegation during its trip to Iran suggested that Iran acquire more than 100,000 hectares of agricultural land in Russia and carry out "extra-territorial agriculture".
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Open letter: AIDESEP demands urgent action from the Peruvian state, international palm oil buyers, the RSPO and international civil society in response to the predatory and divisive practices of the Ocho Sur Group AIDESEP | 15 Jun 2022
The Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP), a national Indigenous organisation representing nine regional organisations from across the Peruvian Amazon, strongly rejects the "divide and rule" campaign promoted by the palm oil business group Ocho Sur. We denounce that this company, whose parent company Peruvian Palm Holdings is based in the British tax haven of Bermuda, has been undermining the self-determination and self-government of the Amazonian Indigenous peoples of Ucayali and our possibilities of building a Full Life in our territories.
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Cargill's bid to open new port in Brazil opposed by human rights, conservation groups Star Tribune | 29 May 2022
A community of fishermen and acai gatherers are suing Cargill in federal court in Brazil, accusing the company of stealing their land, acquiring it through third parties bearing allegedly fake land titles.
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DDL eyeing location in Moblissa for dairy farm operations Guyana Chronicle | 22 May 2022
The multi-million dollar project would require approximately 600 acres of land, create dozens of jobs and see the importation of 500 pregnant heifers to supply the milk production.
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Accaparement des terres : les gouvernements en quête de sécurité alimentaire sèment les graines du mécontentement Les Actualités | 17 juil 2022
Des accords controversés sont toujours en cours. Elite Agro, un grand propriétaire terrien de Serbie, basé à Abu Dhabi, a signé un accord pour des terres agricoles à Madagascar. African Agriculture (AAGR), basée aux États-Unis, a de grands projets pour la culture de la luzerne au Sénégal et a signé à la fin de l’année dernière des accords pour des terres au Niger.
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La Belgique, complice d’accaparement de terres à Madagascar ? Le cas de Tozzi Green Entraide et Fraternité | 07 juil 2022
BIO, la banque belge de développement, finance une multinationale accusée d’accaparer des terres aux dépens des paysan∙nes.
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Le palmier du sang de PHC à Lokutu L'Avenir | 07 juil 2022
On se croirait en train de suivre un film d’horreur. Le dimanche 26 juin 2022, une équipe des gardes industriels, G4S et la police est descendus à la division Bolembo où elle constante qu’une quantité de régimes et fruits de tâches de noix furent déplacés.
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Le nouvel agenda africain de Cyrille Bolloré Jeune Afrique | 24 jui 2022
« Il veut investir dans le secteur de l’agriculture. Il ne s’agit absolument pas d’acquérir des milliers d’hectares pour y faire nous-même des cultures, mais de fournir un appui technique et financier aux agriculteurs locaux, dans le respect des meilleures pratiques »
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Déclaration du Collectif des organisations de la société civile d'Agadez sur les signatures de conventions de partenariat entre les maires des communes rurales d'Ingall et celle d'Aderbissinat avec deux sociétés de droit américain Aïr-Info Agadez | 22 jan 2022
Les organisations de la société civile d’Agadez dénoncent les accords signés entre les deux communes au Niger et African Agriculture Inc et son partenaire Agro Industries Corporation
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El acaparamiento de tierras siembra descontento global Milenio | 18 jul 2022
Habrá muchos más enfrentamientos entre las poblaciones locales y los considerados nuevos terratenientes globales, según el Financial Times
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Los fallos de control de la PAC deja abierto un campo al fraude y al acaparamiento ilegal de tierras Agroinformación | 10 jul 2022
Uno de los principales riesgos de fraude en la Política Agrćiola Commún es el problema del acaparamiento ilegal de tierras, que implica la concentración de tierras agrícolas y subsidios de la PAC en manos de grandes empresas e inversores, especialmente en áreas montañosas y estados miembros de Europa del Este.
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10 Años de Curuguaty, la masacre que ha configurado el modelo extractivista en Paraguay ANRED | 08 jul 2022
En los últimos 10 años se desarrolló un fuerte acaparamiento de tierras para soja transgénica, maíz transgénico y trigo, a los que se suman nuevos rubros del agronegocio: plantaciones de arroz y monocultivos de eucalipto.
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Landgrabbing in Deutschland Deutschlandfunkkultur | 29 Jun 2022
Auch in Deutschland ist Ackerland längst zum Spekulationsobjekt geworden. Die steigenden Bodenpreise sorgen dafür, dass Bauern kaum ein Auskommen haben. Ein Skandal, findet die Autorin Annette Jensen, und fordert eine radikale Bodenreform.
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