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20 Mar 2025
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Just Climate secures $175m to invest in agricultural decarbonization Valor | 18 Mar 2025
Al Gore-backed private equity firm Just Climate has secured its first round of funding from two major global investors to begin investing in solutions aimed at reducing agricultural emissions.
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Merauke declaration: Indigeneous communities unite to reject PSN projects IBP | 17 Mar 2025
Over 250 indigenous peoples, local communities and various civil society organizations from all over Indonesia announced the Merauke Declaration on March 11-14, 2025 in Merauke, South Papua, rejecting various National Strategic Projects (PSN) throughout Indonesia.
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Notice of sale of farmland in Brazil and dissolution of a specified subsidiary Mitsui | 17 Mar 2025
Mitsui & Co announces the sale of all of the farmland owned by its Brazilian subsidiary Agricola Xingu to the Brazil farming giant SLC Agrícola S.A.
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Three Chinese companies won economic land concessions in Ratanakiri Province Weixin | 16 Mar 2025
According to Cambodian media, the Ratanakiri Provincial Information Bureau recently issued a notice announcing the approval of 17 foreign-funded enterprises to obtain economic land concessions (ELC) in the province, covering agricultural planting, agro-industrial integration and beef cattle breeding. Among foreign companies that have obtained economic land concessions, Vietnamese companies dominate, followed by Chinese and Indian companies. In addition, 10 local companies have also obtained land investment with a total area of 146,366 hectares.
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US giant quits NT cattle station amid carbon confusion AFR | 16 Mar 2025
A global commodities trader and carbon player, part-owned by funds giant Brookfield, is quitting a 450,000-hectare Northern Territory cattle station where it hoped to set up an offset scheme, amid confusion and delays over new carbon rules.
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Louis-Dreyfus family sells Russian agricultural firm at 'big discount', Interfax reports Reuters | 16 Mar 2025
Members of the Louis-Dreyfus family behind the eponymous global grain firm have sold their share of Russian agricultural firm RZ Agro, which farms on an area of over 100,000 ha in southern Russia, to co-owner Steppe Agroholding
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Dari Merauke, Masyarakat Terdampak PSN Tolak Perampasan Tanah dan Ruang Hidup Konsolidasi Solidaritas Merauke | 14 Mar 2025
Suara penolakan dan perlawanan atas berbagai Proyek Strategis Nasional (PSN) bermasalah bergema dari Merauke, Papua Selatan, provinsi paling timur Indonesia yang tengah disasar proyek cetak sawah dan kebun tebu warisan pemerintahan Presiden Joko Widodo, dan kini dilanjutkan Presiden Prabowo Subianto.
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Thailand: Stop foreign land grabs Bangkok Post | 14 Mar 2025
The latest report on Chinese investors buying protected forest land to expand their durian plantations is worrying. This is more than just an illegal land grab, however. Soon, the whole durian supply chain will feel the impact. These blatant land grabs must be stopped with a sense of urgency.
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The “biggest trout farm in Africa” and the failed R5,000 community fund Ground Up | 14 Mar 2025
In order to apply for a licence from the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, private equity owned SanLei Premium Trout had to show how local communities would benefit. But the Catchment Resilience Fund initiative seems to have crumbled after less than a year.
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Solidaritas Merauke Declaration Solidaritas Merauke | 14 Mar 2025
For four days on 11-14 March 2025, more than 250 indigenous peoples and local communities affected by Indonesia National Strategic Projects, as well as various civil society organisations, gathered in Merauke, South Papua to challenge the mega projects for rice, sugarcane, oil palm as well as others that will grab million of hectares of community and indigenous territories across the country.
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Ukraine businessmen eye investment in poultry industry PNG Bulletin | 17 Feb 2025
Papua New Guinea's Foreign Affairs Minister says the delegation is going to finalise their numbers to invest their money and effort and everything in building a new poultry farm in Lae.
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Indonesia: Fear and raiders in Papua The Gecko Project | 14 Feb 2025
How thousands of Indonesian soldiers are forcing through a vast agricultural project in indigenous lands and forests
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Philippines: MIC, Thai group to form $1-B investment fund Inquirer | 11 Feb 2025
The country’s sovereign wealth fund signed an MOU with the CP Group laying the groundwork for the establishment of of a $1 billion private equity fund that will target agriculture, food production, digital innovation and green energy.
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Thai firm to invest US$1.5B for mega farm in PH PNA | 01 Aug 2024
President of the Philippines says CP Group committed an additional USD1.5 billion in investments to the country, starting with a 10,000-hectare modernized mega farm, during meeting at the presidential palace.
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Village Mbonjo : Sous la menace d’une crise alimentaire Pages Jaunes | 17 mar 2025
Le village Mbonjo situé dans l’arrondissement de Fiko, département du Moungo est envahi par les plantations de la Socapalm. On retrouve le palmier à huile jusque derrière les maisons d’habitation.
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Entretien : « SENEGINDIA n’est pas un prédateur foncier! » Dakaractu | 17 mar 2025
SENEGINDIA a transféré son activité agricole à la société SWAMI AGRI.
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Acaparamiento de tierras: lacra neoliberal La Jornada Veracruz | 17 mar 2025
Una investigación del Registro Agrario Nacional en México reveló que 36 personas poseen alrededor de 63 mil ejidos que abarcan más de 39 mil hectáreas, divididas en 21 mil 695 parcelas útiles para las actividades agropecuarias o forestales y 41 mil 385 predios destinados a la urbanización y construcción de vivienda.
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El fondo agrícola de los mormones desafía a los aranceles de Trump y se lanza a comprar tierras en España Radio Huancavilca | 17 mar 2025
Pese a la ofensiva arancelaria de Donald Trump, el sector agrícola de España y Portugal sigue acaparando el interés de los fondos nacionales e internacionales, a los que se ha sumado un actor especialmente relevante: Farmland Reserve, una compañía de inversiones dependiente de la Iglesia mormona que se alza como el quinto mayor propietario institucional de tierras agrícolas de Estados Unidos, con cerca de 690.000 hectáreas en el país norteamericano.
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Com apetite voraz, SLC Agrícola supera 800.000 hectares de área plantada Compre Rural | 16 Mar 2025
Operando em 26 unidades, espalhados por sete estados brasileiros, a SLC Agrícola ampliou sua área com novas aquisições e ultrapassou os 800.000 hectares de área plantada; Em apenas uma semana, a companhia assinou praticamente R$ 1,7 bilhão em M&As.
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SLC faz mais duas aquisições e chega a R$ 1,7 bi em M&As TheAgriBiz | 14 Mar 2025
Companhia dos Logemann comprou duas fazendas da Mitsui, assumindo o “filé mignon” em Minas Gerais a um preço extremamente atrativo
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