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16 Oct 2025
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Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil must halt Liberian palm oil company’s abuses Mongabay | 15 Oct 2025
Liberian civil society and international allies are urgently demanding the RSPO maintain its stop-work order on GVL’s expansion to prevent further deforestation, protect communities’ rights, and ensure accountability for the company’s environmental and human rights violations.
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Saudi PIF-backed Salic to pursue full ownership of Olam unit Bloomberg | 14 Oct 2025
Taking over Olam Agri would fit into Saudi Arabia’s food security strategy, which calls for investing in global companies to lock in supply and encourage them to bring production to the kingdom.
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Canada: Saskatchewan changes farmland ownership rules Sask Now | 14 Oct 2025
The Saskatchewan Government has made regulatory amendments to ensure Saskatchewan farm land is not owned by foreigners or corporations, and has removed an exemption that allowed the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to own land.
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Philippines: DMCI to focus on farming and renewables, says CEO Manila Times | 13 Oct 2025
DMCI President Isidro Consunji said the family's agriculture business was developing a 12,000-hectare African palm oil plantation in Negros Occidental, as well as a partnership with Japan's Marubeni and UP Los Baños to plant 1.5 million trees across 15,000 hectares for carbon credits.
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Dark side of SOCAPALM: From land illegalities to the suppression of local communities GDA | 13 Oct 2025
Legal analysis note by Green Development Advocates presents the blatant illegalities underlying the land issue at the SOCAPALM-Edéa plantation in Cameroon
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Ghana secures €154m agric support from Italy – Minister says it’ll transform agri-food systems Joy Online | 13 Oct 2025
Funding from Italy will go towards the development of a 10,000 hectare model farm for the production of maize, rice, tomatoes, and soya managed by the Italian company BF International.
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Madagascar: A glace at the situation of the inhabitants of the Ihorombe region whose lands have been leased by the state to the company Tozzi Green TANY Collective | 11 Oct 2025
Officials of the Malagasy state have leased land in three municipalities of the Ihorombe region to the company Tozzi Green for 30 years. Numerous studies have shown the pressures and manipulations exerted by the authorities, at all levels, to force local communities to accept the company's land use. Some residents refused to the end. Others, among those who agreed, say that they now regret having done so. New information now emerges.
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IFC proposes $31m commitment to agriculture impact funds New Private Markets | 10 Oct 2025
The World Bank's IFC is set to expand its agriculture-focused investing with two proposed commitments targeting early-stage agri-tech in Africa and a timber and nature-based carbon removal fund managed by Patria Investments in Brazil.
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Brazil: Government weighs degraded-land fund to lure foreign investors Globo Rural | 24 Sep 2025
The Brazilian federal government is studying a proposal to create an agribusiness investment fund (Fiagro) to attract foreign investors willing to become equity partners with farmers seeking to recover and convert degraded pastures.
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MyFarm KiwiFruit Fund launches $35 million capital raise BusinessDesk | 18 Sep 2025
The fund owns 17 kiwifruit orchards in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty and Northland.
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Brazilian firm behind SAF plan found growing oil palm on deforested Amazon land Climate Home News | 18 Jul 2025
Discovery of illegal palm crops comes as Grupo BBF grapples with financial problems sparked by warnings over its human rights record
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Madagascar : Un clin d’oeil sur la situation des habitants de la région d'Ihorombe dont les terres ont été louées par l'État à la société Tozzi Green Collectif TANY | 11 oct 2025
Des responsables de l’Etat malgache ont loué des terres dans trois communes de la région Ihorombe à l'entreprise Tozzi Green pour 30 ans. De nombreuses études ont montré les pressions et les manipulations exercées par les autorités, à tous les niveaux, pour contraindre les communautés locales à accepter l’exploitation des terres par l'entreprise. De nouvelles informations surgissent.
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Visage sombre de Socapalm : Entre illegalités foncière et represession des communautés riveraines GDA | 10 oct 2025
Une note d'analyse juridique, publiée par Green Development Advocates du Cameroun, examine les illégalités liées à la problématique foncière dans les localités d'Apouh et environs.
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JBS invertirá 70 millones de dólares en la producción de pollo en Paraguay Eurocarnedigital | 06 oct 2025
La primera inversión es para la adquisición de Pollos Amanecer, una marca local de pollo que opera una planta en el distrito de Doctor Juan Eulogio Estigarribia, también conocido como Campo 9, en el departamento de Caaguazú, una de las regiones agrícolas más grandes de Paraguay, con fácil acceso a los cultivos.
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Senador Wilson Arias propone regular la extranjerización de tierras en Colombia desde Villavicencio Noticero del Llano | 06 oct 2025
Senador afirma que un millón 168 mil hectáreas del territorio colombiano se encuentran en manos de inversionistas extranjeros y quer regular mecanismos de control y transparencia en la compra de terrenos rurales por parte de capital extranjero.
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Der Fall Socfin: Koloniale Vergangenheit, Landkonflikte, sexualisierte Gewalt
Public Eye | Bern | 20 Nov 2025
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