The Stop Harvard Land Grabs Coalition reiterated calls for the University to provide reparations to residents impacted by former holdings in Brazilian farmlands at an annual hybrid panel on Wednesday.
- The Crimson
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09 November 2023
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation along with a number of prominent US university endowments are among the top investors in a troubled set of oil palm plantations in the DRC, according to a report from the Oakland Institute.
- Mongabay
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08 February 2022
European firms are involved at different stages of the supply chain of soy, meat and metal – industries which are the main drivers of the deforestation of the Amazon and Cerrado regions in Brazil
Investigation into the controversial palm oil sector in Liberia, the role of Dutch finance and impacts on local communities
- Financieel Dagblad
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13 July 2021
After acquiring majority ownership in the PHC plantations from European development banks in 2020, former partners have turned on each other with legal action underway across four jurisdictions for control of the company, valued at US$100 million.
- Oakland Institute
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22 June 2021
The Weekly Times has compiled a list of more than 900 properties, and their owners, who range from family farms to domestic and international corporate and investment institutions. The result? The big are getting bigger.
Subsidiaries of prominent South Korea’s conglomerates including POSCO and Samsung, plus South Korean-owned Indonesian conglomerate Korindo Group, have been cutting down primary forest to make way for oil palm plantations.
- Korea Expose
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11 August 2017
This notorious palm oil industry has now expanded to Myanmar with devastating consequences for human rights and the environment
TIAA pays R$1.1 billion to increase its stake in Radar Propriedades Agrícolas S.A, a joint-venture established in partnership with Cosan in 2008 which owns and manages rural properties in Brazil.
This report identifies broad trends in farmland investing with the potential to affect countries in the Global North and Global South
Palm oil is cheap because it’s produced by a global industry built on land grabbing, human rights abuses and environmental devastation.
Of the countries that lost the highest percentages of their cultivated land to land grabs, nine out of 10 have malnourishment rates of 5 percent or more.
- Mother Jones
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06 February 2013
In rural Australia, the hyperbole about agriculture as a boom industry for global investors is not translating into practical benefits at the farm gate
- The Australian
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01 February 2013
"The ONLY place where agriculture businesses and investors come together to discuss farmland investment" says the promoters
Agriculture is suddenly on every end investor’s radar, and many are dipping their toes in the water through pure farmland investment.
- Agriculture Outlook
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21 April 2010
"The Chinese want a secure food supply, and they're coming into New Zealand to do that, by the look of it," a local farm union official says
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.
«Ces investisseurs sont directement responsables des vols de terres et des violations des droits de l’homme perpétrés contre les communautés locales,» selon Frédéric Mousseau
Sahel Capital’s portfolio companies in Africa have cumulative 16,000 hectares of commercial farmland and aggregate additional crop from over 9,000 smallholder farmers.
Multi-million pound corporations with complex structures have purchased the very ground we walk on – and we are only just beginning to discover the damage it is doing to Britain.
Private equity and venture capital firms are going down to the farm, moving into the agribusiness and agriculture technology sectors in a big way.
- Pensions & Investments
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07 September 2015
Land reform movements, organizations of indigenous peoples, small farmers, and other citizens are responding to the increased sacking of land and other natural resources throughout the global South.
A multi-million dollar “ethical” plantation development in northwestern Mozambique - the initiative of a clutch of Scandinavian faith-based organizations - has faced alleged acts of sabotage by the very people it was designed to assist, illustrating the divisions between foreign benefactors and local communities.
International development and environment charities to protest against 'land grab' outside Agriculture Investment Summit
- The Guardian
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26 June 2012
In the past three days, peasants, pastoralists and indigenous peoples have come together from across the world for the first time to share with each other their experiences and struggles against land-grabbing.
- Via Campesina
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23 November 2011
Investors are buying Canadian agricultural land, betting that rising food prices, a ballooning global population and growing worldwide scarcities in farmland will mean a payoff for them.
Listening to Susan Payne you could be forgiven for thinking land funds are a holy grail for the ethical investor: money-making opportunities with a sanctifying air of do-goodery.
- The Spectator
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13 February 2010
New information indicates that Feronia's $15 million rice operations were taken over by a politically connected Belgian-Congolese businessman when they mysteriously vanished from the company's books in 2017.
Australia's Murray Goulburn Co-operative says it plans to bypass traditional bank lending by forging alliances with international investors to support dairy farms.
- Weekly Times Now
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26 August 2013
The deal is the second $100 million-plus farming transaction involving offshore investors this year, highlighting the global appeal of prime Australian farmland.