Des ONG et des villageois mettent en cause les immenses concessions qui occupent les terres et polluent l’eau.
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
The Rohatyn Group has agreed to acquire GMO Renewable Resources from Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. No financial terms were disclosed. GMORR is a provider of investment opportunities in forestry and agriculture investing.
- PE Hub Network
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08 August 2017
British agricultural company Magyar Farming Co. Ltd., along with two Hungarian companies called Kintyre KFT and Inicia ZRT, hit Hungary with an ICSID claim on Aug. 1.
GMORR manages approximately $2.1 billion in rural real estate assets across eight countries and 600,000 hectares.
- Business Wire
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04 August 2017
Even before Lu Xianfeng completed the $280 million purchase of Australia's largest dairy farm in April 2016, the Chinese billionaire was looking to sell. In a messy proposal, Mr Lu planned to offload his holding in the historic VDL to a Chinese listed vehicle he controlled.
- Financial review
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02 August 2017
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is home to the largest remaining tropical rainforest in the Asia-Pacific region, and one of the biggest land grabs in modern history. Between 2014 and 2016, Global Witness traced a supply chain spanning some 9,000 miles from the PNG’s forests to retail shelves in the U.S.
- Global Witness
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01 August 2017
At the initiative of the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party, all groups in the National Assembly except one have agreed to the withdrawal of legislative amendments intended at opening up the sale of agricultural land to foreigners.
L'intervention du Proparco dans l'agriculture et l'agro-industrie en Afrique se situe entre 15 à 20% de son activité
- Commodafrica
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30 June 2017
Au nombre de ses grandes victoires politiques, le lobby ruraliste est parvenu à faire adopter un projet de loi qui facilite la vente de terre à des étrangers.
Four land rights activists, members of Youth Affected by Socfin Agricultural Company, were freed from the custody of Pujehun Correctional Centre
Sur les plaines rizicoles de Bagrépole, une peur anime les producteurs installés il y a plus de 30 ans. Il s’agit de la propriété des terres agricoles.
Merauke govt's move to pull 11 permits wins church and popular backing, but damage to nature 'has already been done
The Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir Tuesday has issued a presidential decree to allocate 2,4 million feddans of land in the River Nile State for a national agricultural scheme, backed by the UAE's Al Dahra Agricultural Holding
- Sudan Tribune
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12 June 2017
A recent visit to the district of Salima uncovered how a senior chief displaced poor families when she made shabby land deals with the Dutch company Malawi Mangoes Limited, which is backed by the World Bank and the FMO of the Netherlands.
Guarani-Kaiowá leader Ladio Veron is touring Europe to raise awareness of violence and environmental destruction by agribusiness
The cultures and very survival of indigenous peoples in Africa are seriously threatened by land grabbing and land dispossession caused by extractive industries, agribusiness and other forms of business operations.
Large-scale land thieves are seizing, deforesting then selling public lands. At the same time, Brasilia is defunding enforcement, with rainforests and landless peasants the losers.
Report sets out to provide a more complete picture of farmland investment patterns in Saskatchewan, identifying major private and out-of-province investors and the extent of their holdings in Saskatchewan.
By inviting Malaysian oil palm investors in Palawan, Philippines, President Duterte is doing exactly the opposite of what he promised to do
- Interncontinental Cry
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13 Mar 2017
Economic Commission for Africa and African Union representatives agree on the need for agricultural investment models that minimize land transfers and lead to shared prosperity at local and national levels.
Three years later after going into receivership, hopes of revival are a withering prospect and hundreds of families that once formed a thriving community revolving around the Naivasha-based company are living in squalor.
- The Nation
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14 February 2017
En 2016, le Ministre des Affaires Foncières a déclaré « d’utilité publique les travaux de constitution des réserves foncières destinées à l’agro-industrie dans le département du Mbéré, Région de l’Adamaoua » sans le moindre respect de son cahier de charge
- Cameroon-Info
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14 February 2017
In Tanzania, large scale investment is increasing and this has a huge impact on pastoralists’ access to land.
Hundreds of farms in Ireland face repossession this year as so-called vulture funds swoop on indebted properties, agri-finance experts have warned.
- Farm Ireland
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17 January 2017
While Dutch ag investors get priority access to 1500 ha near Hawassa, their embassy is helping the Ethiopian government start a conversation with its discontented population.
- Bloemisterij
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13 January 2017
Quelques très insignifiants frémissements semblent signaler un changement de mentalité au sein de l’ogre SOCAPALM au Cameroun. Le loup serait-il devenu un agneau ?
- Palmespoir
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13 January 2017
Pension fund giant TIAA is investing its clients’ funds in farmland and agribusinesses tied to environmental and human rights abuses in Latin America.
Préalablement à toute réforme, le collectif FONADH préconise «un moratoire de 5 ans dans toutes les attributions foncières en vue de faire un état des lieux et de purger les droits des propriétaires traditionnels légitimes.»
- 360 Afrique
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29 November 2016
Plus de 50 organisations de la société civile dénoncent le risque de voir l’Accord de Paris accroitre l’accaparement des terres plutôt que de favoriser la transition de nos modèles agricoles et alimentaires
- CCFD-Terre Solidaire
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15 November 2016