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01 Aug 2024
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Send a letter calling on the financial backers of Agilis Partners to stop the land grabs and human rights violations against the Kiryandongo community in Uganda
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Open letter to the Norwegian pension fund | 31 Jul 2024
Twenty organisations and allies of communities affected by the Socfin group’s oil palm and rubber plantations express their dissatisfaction with the Norges Bank Investment Management's decision not to divest from Bolloré SE and Compagnie de l’Odet SE
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IFC commits $50 million to BTG Pactual TIG’s Latin American reforestation strategy IFC | 29 Jul 2024
The transaction marks the World Bank's IFC's first engagement with an institutional timberland investment manager, which is expected to generate carbon credits through nature-based solutions in Brazil.
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As investors pay top-dollar for land, farmers are often priced out KGOU | 29 Jul 2024
Across the US, large investment firms are driving up farmland prices. In many cases, farmland is sold at prices multiple times the regional average. The cost increases have hit young and beginning farmers the hardest.
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Farmland LP secures trio of California almond ranch acquisitions including water rights GAI | 29 Jul 2024
Farmland LP, a California-based investment firm, has announced the acquisition of three properties in Northern California’s Sacramento Delta across 2,625 acres for a combined price tag of $35.6 million.
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Land grabbing is rolling along as we speak and in fact intensifying La Via Campesina | 29 Jul 2024
Deregulation and financialisation, carbon offset and industrialised food systems are all factors that threaten equitable land access for farmers, says Nettie Wiebe, a founding member of La Via Campesina from Canada
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UAE and Saudi Arabia’s agricultural diplomacy in Africa: Competition, cooperation and its strategic implications ORF | 26 Jul 2024
With scarce arable land and water resources, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are expanding their agricultural diplomacy to improve food access and vying for agricultural cooperation with Africa
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Troubled rubber plantation in Liberia shuts down after labor unrest Mongabay | 25 Jul 2024
Two prominent union leaders who were not present when the Salala Rubber Corporation buildings were set on fire have been jailed as retaliation for their efforts to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement for the plantation’s contract workers.
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MEAG extends its Natural Capital footprint in New Zealand MEAG | 25 Jul 2024
MEAG, the asset manager of Munich Re Group, acquired its first apple orchard in New Zealand on behalf of a client pursuing a New Zealand growth strategy in agriculture.
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Laos, China ink pact on agriculture, forestry investment ANN | 22 Jul 2024
China's Asia Tobacco Industry Group says it will will build a crop oil processing plant, a cattle farm, a plant to produce feed for cattle and various aquatic species, and a fertiliser processing plant, as well as supporting farmers to cultivate bananas and sugarcane.
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The Senegal delta and global capitalism Monthly Review | 01 Feb 2024
Extractivism does not only concern mining, but also agriculture. Investments, such as those made by Senhuile in the Senegal delta, are part of large programs of landscape and social re-engineering in the context of a juncture between “green capitalism” and food security paradigms.
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Lettre ouverte au Fonds de pension norvégien | 31 juil 2024
Une vingtaine d'organisations et alliés des communautés affectées par les plantations de palmiers à huile et d'hévéas du groupe Socfin expriment leur mécontentement face à la décision du Norges Bank Investment Management de ne pas se retirer de l’actionnariat de Bolloré SE et de la Compagnie de l'Odet SE
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Plus de 1,2 million d’hectares disponibles à la concession La Nouvelle République | 29 juil 2024
Plus de 1,2 million d’hectares de terres relevant du domaine privé de l’Etat à mettre en valeur dans le cadre de la concession ont été recensés en Algérie
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L’accaparement des terres progresse actuellement et s’intensifie La Via Campesina | 29 juil 2024
Nettie Webbie, membre fondatrice de La Via Campesina, a souligné les pressions croissantes sur les terres agricoles dans une interview avec Think Ink
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Gobierno: frontera agrícola creció en más de 236,000 hectáreas con obras agrarias Andina | 28 jul 2024
4 megaproyectos de infraestructura para irrigación pretende incorporar más de 236,000 hectáreas a la frontera agrícola para exportación de Perú. Un de los proyectos de irrigación cuenta con un contrato con Canadá con una inversión aproximada de 750 millones de dólares.
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Desmontes en la era Milei: arrasaron 60 mil hectáreas en el norte argentino Agencia Tierra Viva | 28 jul 2024
Chaco, Santiago del Estero, Formosa y Salta desmontaron 60.000 hectáreas de bosques nativos en el primer semestre, según informe de Greenpeace, reemplazos principalmente por cambios de normativas en las provincias al favor del avance del agronegocio.
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Brasil: Carta Seminário Política Fundiária e lutas por terra e território Campanha Nacional em Defesa do Cerrado | 29 Jul 2024
Os movimentos denunciam que o mercado de carbono e o avanço da produção de energias tidas como renováveis incentiva a especulação fundiária por corporações nacionais e transnacionais, levando a mais violência no campo. O enfrentamento à crise climática, afirma a Carta, não será eficaz sem democratização da terra e promoção da agroecologia.
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