Agriculture is being flagged as the replacement for residential property investments following changes to Portugal's Golden Visa programme, with investors urged to look towards funds such as Pela Terra and Terra Nova.
- International Investment
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07 August 2023
La Chine est en fait très loin de la première place occupée par les entreprises canadiennes, qui possèdent plus de 4,8 millions d'hectares de terres agricoles aux États-Unis, selon le ministère de l'Agriculture.
- Daily Digest
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07 August 2023
Herdsman are occupying a substantial portion of land that was granted by the government to Madhvani Sugar Factory for a sugarcane plantation in Amuru district but that has not been utilised.
- Ankole Times
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07 August 2023
Pour l’implémentation de ce projet, le groupe suisse sollicite 42 000 hectares de terres agricoles dans le département du Niari
- Génies d'Afrique
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06 August 2023
Institutional investors, large corporates and big family operators are expected to dominate demand for prime farmland this financial year as smaller farmers’ buying power takes a hit from higher interest rates, lower profits.
The Farmland for Farmers Act, in banning corporations from purchasing farmland, improves the chances for beginning, small-scale producers to access land and produce food for themselves and their communities.
Pension funds, Wall Street investors, and other well-funded entities and individuals looking for good investments have been buying up domestic farmland. Their goal is profit, not food production or stewardship of natural resources.
With Pakistan’s parliament's approval of the Special Investment Facilitation Council on August 1, all is now set for offering investors to procure huge lands for agriculture farming.
President Kissan Ittehad Khalid Mehmood Khokhar dismissed misconceptions created by some elements claiming that corporate farming would deprive the small farmers of their cultivable lands.
- Daily Times
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04 August 2023
Réponse des organisations de la société civile malgache à l'entreprise LGA OSO Farming
- Collectif TANY
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03 August 2023
La industria del aceite de palma repite el patrón de las élites bananeras del siglo pasado: acaparar tierras, explotarlas con monocultivos y conspirar con el Estado hondureño. Pero una empresa del norte del país muestra cómo las cooperativas de aceite de palma pueden empoderar a las comunidades mientras obtienen beneficios.
- Dialogo Chino
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02 August 2023
Le prêt a été accordé suite à la certification RSPO des plantations de l'entreprise singapourienne au Gabon
- Infos Gabon
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01 August 2023
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Anuradha Mittal, Founder and Executive Director of The Oakland Institute, which has reported on the IMF and World Bank’s carving up of Ukrainian farmland and the myths about the Black Sea Grain Deal
- Going Underground
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01 August 2023
The increased use of land as a commodity and the increasing demand for land has resulted in more forced land evictions.
- Witness Radio
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01 August 2023
The land being grabbed is aimed for growing large-scale sugar by Somdiam Company, owned by ‘investors’ from India.
- Witness Radio
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31 July 2023
Pakistan has in principle approved 28 projects worth billions of dollars that would be offered to Gulf countries, including an 85,000 acre corporate farming project in the Cholistan desert.
Ukrainian agricultural conglomerate owned by Saudi Arabia's SALIC is planning to market the country's first soil carbon credits using a methodology developed by Verra, despite the ongoing war.
The World Bank’s private-sector lending arm is planning a return to palm oil financing after a 14-year suspension with a proposal for a syndicated loan of up to US$350 million to Olam to develop palm oil plantations in Gabon.
Witnesses in an environmental lawsuit taken by members of the Auyu People of West Papua against a Malaysian-owned palm oil company’s plan to clear tens of thousands of hectares of their forest homeland describes that intimidations are directed towards opponents of the company plans.
- Pusaka Bentala Rakyat
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27 July 2023
El foro público "Dinámicas de Acaparamiento y Extranjerización de Tierras" tuvo lugar en Bogotá con el propósito de hacer un balance sobre la reforma agraria en Colombia
US lawmakers from both parties are pushing legislation that would limit who can own American farmland, with a latest effort from Democratic Senator Cory Booker aimed at curbing corporate ownership.
La famille du Président Emmanuel Macron qui aurait dégusté les gambas de LGA OSO FARMING le 1er mai 2022 selon la presse, savait-elle qu’elle consommait des gambas élevés et produits sur des terrains acquis de manière illégale et illégitime au prix de tentatives de dépouillement de familles et communautés du Nord de Madagascar de leurs terres et de leurs droits fondamentaux ?
- Collectif TANY
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26 July 2023
En Uruguay, un senador nacionalista propone un proyecto de ley que pretende "detener el proceso de extranjerización de la tierra"
- El Observador
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25 July 2023
Nuveen, the $1.1 trillion investment manager of TIAA, has expanded its partnership with a global fintech platform to offer investors and financial advisors the opportunity to allocate to global agricultural assets.
By bringing together over 600 small landowners, all of whom are partners in the company, Hondupalma defies the prevalent model of large family-owned palm oil companies.
- China Dialogue
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25 July 2023
the story of a women group in Kalimantan called “Hurung Hapakat”, which means “Working Together”. Collectively, and against serious repression, they have reclaimed some land from oil palm plantations in order to also reclaim their food sovereignty, dignity and wisdom. And they are not alone.
Setelah tiga bulan mendaftarkan gugatan di PTUN Jayapura, sidang gugatan izin lingkungan Suku Awyu kepada perusahaan sawit PT Indo Asiana Lestari (IAL) memasuki tahap pemeriksaan bukti 6 Juli lalu.
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. should allow lands given to agrarian reform beneficiaries be leased by bigger corporations that are into agribusiness, a business leader said Thursday.
Tensions between local communities and large-scale agriculture companies are running high in Cameroon and disputes over land and environmental impacts have increased over the years.
Security guards working for the multinational fruit company Del Monte have been accused of running over two teenagers at a pineapple farm in Kenya that is currently at the centre of an investigation into alleged human rights abuses.