A coalition of environmental, human rights and family farm organizations delivered a letter with over 100,000 signatures to pension fund management company TIAA, expressing concerns over the company’s investments in farmland and palm oil.
Protesters paid a visit to TIAA’s New York headquarters Thursday, urging the firm to stop investing in farmland and companies with ties to palm oil.
- Institutional Investor
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21 April 2017
La terre se financiarise de plus en plus et le modèle agricole français est en train de vivre une révolution qui met à mal l'agriculture familiale.
- France Inter
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21 April 2017
Plus de 20 millions de personnes sont menacées par la famine dans quatre pays : Soudan du Sud, où la famine a été déclarée, Nigeria, Yémen, et Somalie, où l'insécurité alimentaire est critique. L'occasion de parler de souveraineté alimentaire et du droit des peuples à disposer de leur terre agricole.
Maxagro and PHI Group will consider raising capital for Maxagro to acquire additional farmland by taking Maxagro public in the U.S. and European Stock Markets.
- Globe Newswire
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19 April 2017
While Canadian agriculture shows some promise, institutional investors have been active on the global front, particularly when it comes to farmland.
- Benefits Canada
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11 April 2017
Still the most effective way to counter the land grabbers is the collective action of rural communities to resist and to assert the people’s rights to their own land and resources.
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.
La narrativa sobre el acaparamiento de tierras es una tendencia clara desde el 2008. No obstante, esta dinámica se puso en marcha por la liberalización del mercado de tierras en la década de los 90, y se desencadenó aún más por la aceleración de la crisis global del capitalismo al comienzo del nuevo milenio.
- Revista Pueblos
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20 Mar 2017
Adecoagro revealed that executives had been "travelling all around" southern Brazil investigating potential sugar acquisitions, and was mulling growth in the likes of rice, dairy and beef, after slashing its debts in a "milestone" year.
Delle banche svizzere sono implicate nel controverso commercio di olio di palma in Indonesia, denunciano due organizzazioni umanitarie elvetiche.
Des banques suisses sont impliquées dans le commerce controversé de l'huile de palme en Indonésie, dénoncent deux organisations d’entraide helvétiques.
Face à l’accaparement des terres dans les pays du Sud, les banques et les établissements financiers suisses doivent prendre conscience du fossé qui sépare leurs déclarations d’intention de la réalité du terrain
Our endorsement of the Open Letter of the Mozambican civil society organisations to JICA entitled "Protest against JICA’s action to the Mozambican society under the ProSAVANA programme"
Nosso apoio à Carta Aberta das organizações sociais de Moçambique à JICA intitulada “Protesto contra a actuação da JICA sobre a sociedade moçambicana no âmbito do programa ProSavana”
要件:モザンビーク市民社会によるJICA宛公開書簡(「プロサバンナ事業におけるモザンビーク社会へのJICAの活動に対する抗議」)への賛同レター
The French Parliament has definitively adopted a bill aimed at curbing the grabbing of agricultural land by greedy and unscrupulous investors, in order to guarantee the country’s national sovereignty and support the family farming model
- Slow Food
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20 February 2017
Russia's farmland market remains attractive to investors, both foreign and domestic, despite the apparent snub presented by Black Earth Farming's decision to quit, with prices soaring by up to 60% last year.
- Agrimoney
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16 February 2017
Black Earth Farming revealed it had agreed, in essence, a $200m takeover by a Russia's Kukura family in the most high profile of a series of retreats by foreign investors from the Black Sea agricultural market.
- Agrimoney
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14 February 2017
Fundos estrangeiros sabotam legislação brasileira e usam mecanismos do mercado para comprar terras no Cerrado.
- Brasil de Fato
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06 February 2017
Salta aprobó por decreto pasar de 1.000 a 35.000 las hectáreas que pueden estar en manos extranjeras en la Puna y los Valles Calchaquíes.
- Nuestras Voces
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05 February 2017
Concerning JICA’s attempt to suppress Mozambican peasant leaders and CSO representative visiting Japan
- Africa Japan Forum et al.
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24 January 2017
According to a POSCO Daewoo official, Sunday, Korea's largest trading affiliate under POSCO group has secured construction and investment approval from the Myanmar government to build a rice processing complex (RPC) in Twante.
- Korea Times
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22 January 2017
Land deals are implemented – and often initiated – by sub-national states which are in competition with each other to win major investments.
- The Conversation
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17 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
Pelo mundo, mais de 30 milhões de hectares foram adquiridos por apenas 490 proprietários. E o Brasil é um dos principais protagonistas.
Pension fund giant TIAA is investing its clients’ funds in farmland and agribusinesses tied to environmental and human rights abuses in Latin America.
Eritrean law blocking foreign investors from owning land and the country's desire for self-reliance makes it highly unlikely that it will fall for the neocolonial phenomenon of land grabbing.
- Geeska Afrika
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29 December 2016
以下、12月7日付けで提出された「緊急抗議・要請」です。
JICAから届いた「回答書」も含めて、以下のJVCのサイトで詳しく紹介されていますので、そちらをご覧下さい。
Cinq paysans sénégalais qui résistent l'attribution de 1000 ha à l'entreprise indienne SenegIndia dans la commune de Dioukoul ont été arrêtés