Los principios del BM, que serían totalmente voluntarios, intentan distraer del hecho de que la crisis alimentaria global de hoy en día con la cifra récord de más de mil millones de personas sufriendo hambre, no será resuelta por la agricultura industrial a gran escala que van a aplicar prácticamente todos los inversionistas que están adquiriendo tierra.
- La Via Campesina-FIAN-LRAN-GRAIN
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22 April 2010
نقول لا للمبادئ المعلنة من طرف البنك الدولي التي تهم الاستثمارات “المسؤولة” من طرف الشركات الزراعية الغذائية.
- La Via Campesina-FIAN-LRAN-GRAIN
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22 April 2010
Una revisión ilustrada de las tendencias al acaparamiento global de tierras, con tablas y figuras.
Présentation illustrée de la tendance à l’accaparement des terres dans le monde, avec tableaux et chiffres.
An illustrated overview of the global land grabbing trend, with tables and figures.
AAM Investment Group has sold its 14,074ha Sunshine Farms Aggregation in the Lachlan Valley of New South Wales for an undisclosed sum and the buyer is believed to be the US pension fund manager Nuveen.
- Grain Central
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26 Mar 2024
Saroafrica is in the process of acquiring SIAT, a company with over 140,000 ha of oil palm and rubber plantations in Cambodia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria.
Carbon credits and net-zero pledges are fuelling a new round of farmland buying by billionaires and pension funds that will undermine real climate action.
La mère de Efolafola Nisoni Manu, agé de 20 ans, parle de sa meurtre en février dernier aux mains des policiers et des agents de sécurité de la société de plantations de palmier à huile PHC/KKM.
- RIAO-RDC et GRAIN
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30 April 2021
Here is a new video about one of the biggest cases of agricultural land grabbing in Senegal: 20,000 hectares, first allocated to Senhuile-Sénéthanol, now known as Les Fermes de la Téranga.
Une action de solidarité avec les communautés affectées par les plantations de SOCFIN en Afrique et en Asie a été menée au Luxembourg ce 28 mai durant l’Assemblée générale de la multinationale. Une dizaine d’activistes ont directement participé à l’AG pour dénoncer ses agissements et réclamer des actions immédiates.
An action of solidarity with the communities affected by SOCFIN's plantations in Africa and Asia was carried out in Luxembourg today during the multinational's General Assembly. About 10 activists participated in the GA to denounce the situation and demand immediate action.
One Tree Agriculture is owned by private equity fund manager, Proterra Investment Partners, which was spun off in 2016 as an investment advisory and private equity fund manager by Cargill’s Black River Asset Management.
- Grain Central
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17 July 2018
The UK remains the largest foreign owner of Australian farmland, followed by China and the US, according to the Foreign Investment Review Board 2016–17 Annual Report.
- Grain Central
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02 July 2018
A Procuradoria Geral do Estado (PGE) da Bahia afirma que está investigando se terras atribuídas a uma empresa vinculada a um fundo patrimonial (endowment) de Harvard estão em situação irregular.
AgCAP has completed the sale of its initial Sustainable Agriculture Fund (SAF) portfolio, which included the sale to institutional and private equity investors of SAF’s three cropping aggregations in Australia.
- Grain Central
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30 January 2018
On 30 August 2017, 40 people brought a petition to Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh calling for the withdrawal of sugar company Hengfu, that accused for grabbing tens of thousands of families land since 2011.
Una delegación internacional viajará en la región brasileña de MATOPIBA para documentar el impacto social, económico, medioambiental y de derechos humanos de la adquisición de tierras a gran escala.
Durante los últimos días, Feronia Inc., una compañía con sede en Canadá, cuya propiedad es en su mayoría de bancos de Desarrollo europeos y estadounidenses, ha estado presionando a las comunidades locales para que firmen un memorando de entendimiento, MOU, que respaldaría las operaciones en sus territorios de plantaciones de aceite de palma de la compañía continuadas y expandidas.
- RIAO-RDC y GRAIN
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27 July 2016
Un nuevo video muestra que las mujeres rurales en África occidental están empeñadas en proteger la producción de aceite de palma tradicional frente a la expansión de las plantaciones industriales de palma.
Les paysannes en Afrique de l’Ouest travaillent pour protéger la production traditionnelle d’huile de palme face aux accaparements de terres et à l'impact destructeur des plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile.
A day before the start of yet another trial brought on the Bolloré Group against French journalists, organisations denounce the imprisonment of 6 local community leaders affected by the investments of company linked to Bolloré
- GRAIN et al.
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10 February 2016
A la veille d'un procès intenté par Bolloré contre des journalistes de médias français, des organisations dénoncent l’emprisonnement de 6 leaders des communautés locales affectées par les investissements d'une société liée au groupe Bolloré.
- GRAIN et al.
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10 February 2016
Farmland Partners, the New York Stock Exchange-listed real estate investment trust (REIT), says it will eventually branch out from the US.
- World Grain
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17 September 2015
Sang-Liang Technology Development Centre and Nigeria's Raw Materials Research and Development Council will partner with the Niger state government for land provision for the pilot project.
- World Grain
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27 August 2015
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development puts another $20 million into the Kernel Group, one of the largest vertically integrated agribusiness holdings in the Ukraine.
COFCO, Hopu Investment, Temasek, IFC and Standard and Chartered announce that the transaction to acquire Noble Agri through a holding company has gone through.
- World Grain
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01 October 2014
The commercial farm currently has 3,000 hectares under cultivation and another 3,000 hectares will be developed in 2015, while 3,000 farmers are involved in its outgrower programme.
- World Grain
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04 September 2014
A third of Romania’s fertile land is now owned by Italian, Danish, German, Norwegian, Dutch, Hungarian and Lebanese citizens.
- Black Sea Grain
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24 April 2014
Indigenous peoples in Sarawak, Malaysia are facing an escalation of land grabbing in their territories by national palm oil companies, backed by foreign corporations.