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16 May 2024
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Japan's Oji sets up forest plantation company in Uruguay Jiji Press | 15 May 2024
Japanese paper maker buys a 41,000 tree plantation in Uruguay for US$288mn from US asset manager The Rohatyn Group, as part of a plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
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Agricultural revolution in the making Ahram Online | 14 May 2024
During a visit to the 630,000 ha Mostaqbal Misr project, Egypt's President says he will be opening the door wide for the private sector to tap land-reclamation projects on a grand scale by offering a lot of incentives, like roads and water for agricultural purposes.
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Carbon credits: A threat or opportunity for farmers? Farmers Guide | 14 May 2024
A study shows non-farmers bought more than half the farms and estates sold on the open market in England in 2023, with private investors involved in 28% of transactions and institutional investors in 13% – a rise of 10% on 2022 levels.
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Land squeeze: Soaring land prices, grabs and carbon schemes threaten food production, experts warn IPES | 14 May 2024
New study exposes how land grabs in various forms have led to doubling land prices globally since 2008, and tripling in Central Europe, placing unprecedented strain on farmers and rural communities.
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Enugu govt, Pragmatic Palms, seal N100bn deal to revive United Palm products Vanguard | 12 May 2024
Nigeria's Enugu State has signed a deal for a joint venture with Pragmatic Palms Limited that will give the newly formed company with no previous agricultural experience control over a 6,700 ha oil palm plantation concession.
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World Bank out of land! International statement | 12 May 2024
On the opening day of the World Bank's 2024 Land Conference, small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, workers, grassroots communities, and civil society issue statement denouncing the World Bank for land grabbing and ecosystem destruction.
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Ekiti signs multi-billion naira agricultural MOU with Cavista Holdings Nigeria Current | 10 May 2024
Nigeria's Ekiti State Government has signed an MOU with Nigerian investment company – Cavista Holdings (owners of Agbeyewa Farms Limited) to establish a state-of-the-art cassava farm spanning 100,000 hectares within the State.
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Whipping up disaster: how Brazil became a lab for financial agro-investments GRAIN | 03 May 2024
How did Brazil become a laboratory for agroinvestment? Through an alliance between big finance and agribusiness. Now, ordinary people are being pulled into financing land- and watergrabbers themselves.
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Governor Oyebanji urges traditional rulers to remain champions of peace and economic growth, unveils agribusiness initiative with Cavista Holdings. Cavista Holdings | 17 Apr 2024
He urged them to take advantage of their status and position in the community to regularly communicate government policies and programmes to their people, mobilize support for new investments, and act as mediators where required to ensure peaceful co-existence between businesses and communities.
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Nigeria: US Embassy team visits Agbeyewa farm in Ekiti Tribune | 21 Feb 2024
US Ambassador to Nigeria, David Greene, calls on the people to support the expansive 15,000 ha Agbeyewa farm owned by Cavista Hooldings in the interest of the community.
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L’agriculture à petite échelle plus menacée que jamais dans le monde Radio Canada | 13 mai 2024
L’accaparement des terres à des fins environnementales - des projets de compensation carbone et de biodiversité, ainsi que des initiatives de conservation ou de production de carburants propres - représentent environ 20 % des transactions foncières à grande échelle, selon l’IPES
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Plus de 6000 personnes marchent contre deux projets de giga bassines en Limagne et retiennent les eaux dans les terres Soulèvements de la terre | 12 mai 2024
Ce samedi 11 mai, 6000 à 7000 personnes ont convergé vers la Limagne, en France pour une première grande manifestation contre le projet de deux giga-bassines qui totaliserait 2,3 M de m³.
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Mobilisation contre les mégabassines dans le Puy-de-Dôme : entre 4 000 et 6 500 participants à une manifestation GC! | 12 mai 2024
Entre 4 000 et 6 500 manifestants se sont mobilisés dans le Puy-de-Dôme, en France, pour protester contre la construction de deux réserves d’eau destinées à irriguer 800 hectares de terres agricoles. La manifestation, organisée par des groupes écologistes, vise à défendre l’eau comme un bien commun.
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A Brazzaville, des Congolais protestent après la cession par Sassou Nguesso d'une partie de leurs terres au Rwanda Digital Congo | 11 mai 2024
En 2022, la République du Congo a concédé plus de 22 000 hectares de terres agricoles au Rwanda sur 25 ans. Cet accord commence à être de plus en plus critiqué par des Congolais.
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RDC : Face aux multiples difficultés, quel est le sort réservé à l’entreprise PHC après plus de 100 ans d’existence ? Actu30 | 08 mai 2024
Suite aux soupçons de malversations financières, le bras de fer s’intensifie entre l’État congolais et l’actionnaire SKKM2 au sein de PHC S.A. (anciennement Unilever)
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Exigen devolución de tierras robadas y protección frente a la violenciaLas plantaciones de palma aceitera se extienden al este de Amazonía de Brasil. La población indígena y quilombola denuncia que las empresas de palma aceitera se han apropiado de grandes extensiones de tierra. Piden a las autoridades que les devuelvan sus tierras y les protejan de la violencia y los ataques continuos. Firma aquí |
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Los precios mundiales de la tierra van en aumento desde hace más de dos décadas ES Euro | 13 may 2024
Según un nuevo informe, los crecientes precios de la tierra, el acaparamiento de tierras y los planes de carbono están creando una “expresión de la tierra” sin precedentes, amenazando a los agricultores y la producción de alimentos.
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Estudio expone degradación ambiental y conflictos laborales alrededor de cultivos de palma aceitera en Guatemala y Honduras Mongabay | 09 may 2024
La organización Iniciativa Cristiana Romero evaluó el comportamiento de dos empresas de palma aceitera en Guatemala y una en Honduras que exportan hacia Alemania. Los resultados indican contaminación del agua en los ríos, degradación ambiental, adquisición irregular de tierras y violación de derechos laborales.
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En Honduras, campesinos recuperan tierras de industria de palma aceitera Radio Zapatista | 08 may 2024
En abril del año 1994, las tierras asignadas para la cooperativa El Chile fueron despojadas mediante una venta ilegal. Esta transacción fue realizada por personas sin representación legítima de los campesinos, para traspasar el territorio a manos de la Empresa Agropecuaria Camaro, quien a su vez cedió los títulos a Exportadora del Atlántico, perteneciente a la hondureña Corporación Dinant.
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‘Fazendas de carbono’, uma oportunidade de US$ 15 bi ao Brasil, começam a mudar paisagem na Amazônia Estadão | 13 May 2024
Empresas vendem crédito de carbono no mercado voluntário, enquanto País demora para criar ambiente regulado; União Europeia e Nova Zelândia saem na frente
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Speakout of the Landless
Asian Peasant Coalition, PCFS, PAN AP, International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self Determination and Liberation, and ILPS | Global | 13 May 2024
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