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12 Sep 2024
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Sign the petition to stop the deployment of police/military and criminalisation of peasants struggling for their land against oil palm plantation company in Buol Regency, Sulawesi, Indonesia
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Abu Dhabi-based Offset8 and iRise to restore 10 million trees, benefiting 150,000 Malawians PR Newswire | 12 Sep 2024
Offset8 and iRise’s Climate and Community Transformation Program intends to restore 6,000 hectares of degraded land in Malawi by planting 6 million trees.
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Microsoft buys 234,000 rainforest restoration carbon removal credits from Toroto ESG Today | 11 Sep 2024
The agreement will cover ecosystem restoration of up to 47,000 hectares of tropical rainforest in the state of Campeche, in the Calakmul region of southeastern Mexico
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Indonesian Minister welcomes Qatari investment to support milk self-sufficiency Bernama | 11 Sep 2024
"Baladna (a Qatari company) is willing to help us in the free nutritious meal programme by investing in dairy farming in Indonesia to meet our milk needs," says Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman.
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Why commercial agribusinesses resort to backward integration – Gov. Sule Business Day | 11 Sep 2024
The Governor of Nigeria's Nasarawa State says the implementation of the Framework for Responsible Investment in Land-Intensive Agriculture (FRILIA), part of a World Bank economic transformation agenda programme, will attract large-scale private agricultural investments.
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Farmland LP announces investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund to support regenerative agriculture Business Wire | 11 Sep 2024
Farmland LP announces an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund in Farmland LP’s Vital Farmland III LLC, which will develop Soil Carbon Credits on its 18,500-acre farm portfolio in the US.
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Salala Rubber Corporation to resume operations soon Liberian Observer | 10 Sep 2024
This disclosure by Jeety Rubber comes weeks after its founder, business tycoon Upjit Singh Sachdeva, acquired SRC from its parent company, Socfin, a Belgian-French agricultural conglomerate.
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Multinational SIAT still operating illegally: Ivorian communities hire Belgian lawyers to assert their rights FIAN Belgium et al. | 09 Sep 2024
Communities in Côte d'Ivoire are demanding compensation for the damage caused by the activities of the Belgian company SIAT, which specialises in the production of rubber and palm oil.
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Nigeria needs public, private partnerships to drive food security – Attueyi, Chairman, Ellah Lakes Plc Business Day | 09 Sep 2024
"In Edo State, we have a huge farmland, and one of the new initiatives we put out there is piggery, and we have a strategy that we are rolling out, hoping that in the next eight months, we will be the largest pig farm in Nigeria."
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Tether invests $100 million in agriculture firm Cryptotimes | 09 Sep 2024
Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin, has invested $100 million to buy a 9.8% stake in Adecoagro, a agro-tech firm in Latin America.
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The incredible £263m farm that's the biggest in Europe - but owned by the Middle East Express | 08 Sep 2024
The Agricost Farm in Romania, covering an incredible 57,000 hectares of land, was purchased from a Romanian businessman by UAE-based Al Dahra investment in 2018.
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How last year’s wildfires reignited a battle over water rights on Maui Mother Jones | 06 Sep 2024
For more than a century, corporations have controlled the Hawaiian island’s water. That could be changing.
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The long road to getting land back in Mexico Ojalá | 23 Aug 2024
San Isidro is not just a land grab case of a company being favored by the state. Here, the death of the people carries the name of a transnational-- Amway.
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Sénégal : Les travailleurs des Fermes de la Téranga interpellent Sonko et demande le limogeage du PCA Sénégal Direct | 09 sep 2024
Les travailleurs des Fermes de la Teranga, anciennement Senhuile-Senethanol au Sénégal, demande le limogeage du président du conseil d'administration Gora Seck pour non paiement des salaires
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En Côte d’Ivoire, des communautés en lutte contre l’accaparement de leur terre par la multinationale SIAT Le Monde | 09 sep 2024
Des communautés ivoiriennes demandent à être indemnisées pour les préjudices causés par les activités de SIAT, une société blege spécialisée dans la production de caoutchouc et d’huile de palme.
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Des communautés ivoiriennes engagent des avocats belges pour faire valoir leurs droits face à SIAT FIAN Belgium | 09 sep 2024
"Les conflits fonciers et sociaux dans les plantations de palmiers à huile et d’hévéas de SIAT perdurent depuis trop longtemps et doivent être résolus."
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Tether investit dans l'agriculture avec une acquisition de terres évaluée à 102 millions de dollars américains Cryptotimes | 08 sep 2024
Dans une démarche stratégique visant à diversifier ses investissements, Tether, reconnu pour ses performances sur le marché des stablecoins, a annoncé un investissement substantiel dans le secteur agricole.
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Dénonciations : des banques invitées à suspendre les financements de Bolloré News du Cameroun | 05 sep 2024
Des organisations de défense des droits des communautés ainsi que des ONG de protection de l’environnement accusent le groupe français de se passer pour un investisseur dans des projets environnementaux tandis qu’il fait subir des abus aux communautés et aux travailleurs.
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