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Socfin's response on Apouh case
- BHRRC
- 29 April 2025
Response to an inquiry from Business & Human Rights Research Centre
REDCIP: defender tierras frente a Ley del Despojo
- Servindi
- 29 April 2025
Ley recien aprobada em Perú promueve la formalización de predios individuales superpuestos en territorios comunales ocupados entre 2004 y 2015, abriendo paso al despojo sistemático de tierras ancestrales y debilitando la cohesión social de más de 2,000 comunidades campesinas. Campesinos exigen la inconstitucionalidad de la Ley.
Biomas launches first large-scale reforestation project in Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest
- One Stop ESG
- 29 April 2025
Biomas, a Brazilian reforestation company backed by Vale, Marfrig, Suzano, Santander Brasil, Itaú, and Rabobank, has launched its first major project: planting over 2 million trees across 1,200 hectares of Atlantic rainforest in Bahia state.
Nigeria: Untapped goldmine that can address farmers, herders feud, unlock livestock potentials
- Nigerian Tribune
- 29 April 2025
Benue State has secured funding for a 1000-hectare fodder project which is for export to the United Arab Emirates, and they plan to increase that to 6,000 hectares within the next 2 to 3 years.
Brazil's government aims to raise $2 billion in financing with new Eco Invest auction
- Reuters
- 29 April 2025
The government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expects to raise $2 billion in financing through a new auction as part of the Eco Invest Brazil program, focusing on initiatives to recover 1 million hectares of degraded pastures.
Laos: New Forests buys into Burapha
- Financial Standard
- 29 April 2025
With 6000 hectares, the land comprises conservation areas, a plywood mill, and a voluntary carbon project focused on plantation afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation issuing carbon credits
Lee Group announces $35m agricultural investment in Nasarawa
- Business Day
- 29 April 2025
The multinational conglomerate plans to develop a 5,000 hectares rice farm and a sugar factory to complement its existing sugarcane plantation in Jigawa State, as well as to expand into sesame and peanut production
Governo Federal anuncia o 2º Leilão Eco Invest, voltado à recuperação de terras degradadas
- Secom
- 28 April 2025
Com objetivo de atrair capital privado para financiar a recuperação de 1 milhão de hectares de terras degradadas, o Programa brasileiro pretende levantar R$ 10 bilhões, inclusie por meio dos novos Fundos para o agronegócio (FIAGROS). Combinando recursos públicos e do BID como catalizador, espera-se destravar os investimentos internacionais no agronegócio e em terras.
Área na APA Triunfo do Xingu é leiloada para recuperação florestal
- Para Terra Boa
- 28 April 2025
A empresa Systemica, quem tem o BGT Pactual como sócio, venceu o primeiro leilão no Brasil para reflorestar 30 mil ha de terras públicas da APA Triunfo do Xingu, com direito de explorar comercialmente os serviços ambientais e gerar créditos de carbono por 40 anos.
Tanzania: BBT gets massive AfDB 347bn/- boost
- Daily News
- 28 April 2025
Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa yesterday launched the Building Better Tomorrow (BBT) Programme’s Project I, which focuses on large-scale farming, with a funding boost of 129.71 million US dollars from the African Development Bank.
Nigeria: Ekiti women protest over alleged destruction of farmlands by agric firm
- Premium Times
- 28 April 2025
The women of the Odo-Oro community in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State protested over the alleged destruction of their farmlands by an agriculture firm, Agbeyewa Farms. “They are destroying our lands, they are cutting down our cocoa farms, cutting down our palm trees and destroying what is left of what our forefathers gave to us."
Brasil fictício: Propriedade de terra autodeclarada excede área do país em um Pará
- O Globo
- 27 April 2025
Cadastro digital obrigatório no país, o próprio dono do imóvel informa os limites da sua fazenda, se tem nascentes, mata nativa e áreas a serem protegidas, o que vem gerando inúmeras fraudes. São 139,7 milhões de hectares das áreas sobrepostas, o que equivalente a quatro Alemanhas.
Sierra Leone: Maconteh communities protest over unpaid land leases by agroforestry firm
- Care Times
- 25 April 2025
Six communities in Maconteh Chiefdom, Port Loko District, including Rogbessh, Faidugu, Rokama, Robat, and Kirima have staged a peaceful protest against agroforestry company Rewinding BKM for failing to pay 2024 land lease fees.
Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal
- MIT
- 25 April 2025
The tech behemoth is betting that planting millions of eucalyptus trees in Brazil will be the path to a greener future. Some ecologists and local residents are far less sure.
Socfin : l'enquête Bloomberg confirme des violations des droits humains
- Humundi
- 24 April 2025
Violences sexuelles, accaparements de terres, répression : une nouvelle enquête éclaire les pratiques du groupe agro-industriel, écrit l'ONG Humundi
Macron à Madagascar : un barrage à 600 millions d’euros pour éclairer 40 % de l’île
- La Tribune
- 23 April 2025
Côté malgache, la production agricole est un des enjeux majeurs de cette visite d'État d'Emmanuel Macron. Mais on parle de « co-investissement » au lieu de vente des terres agricoles. 10 000 hectares ont déjà été sécurísés pour la production agricole destinée aux pays membres de la Commission de l'Océan Indien (dont la France).
Uzbek farmers say they're being forced to surrender land to Chinese firms
- Radio Free Europe
- 23 April 2025
Farmers in Uzbekistan say the government is forcing them to surrender land to Chinese businesses under the guise of state-backed development, taking thousands of hectares of fertile cotton and wheat fields out of the hands of locals.
Australia: Tasmanian farmland is seeing a hedge-fund buying spree—locals fear climate investors not tourists
- DMN
- 23 April 2025
The bigger question—one Tasmania must answer soon—is how much of its food-bowl can be outsourced to balance sheets before community cohesion snaps.
Ruto secures Sh107 billion deals from Chinese investors to propel Kenya's economy, create jobs
- The Star
- 23 April 2025
Agricultural ventures feature prominently, with Shandong Jialejia Agriculture committing Sh3.9 billion to a 500,000-hen egg farm in Kajiado, Zonken Group investing Sh41.6 billion in a 300-acre aloe vera processing plant in Baringo and Sh10.4 billion for a 72-acre grape vineyard.
NGOs at the service of plundering territories: the Earthworm Foundation case
- WRM
- 23 April 2025
Under the guise of ‘conflict mediation’ and community empowerment, the work of certain corporate NGOs results in communities continuing without access to and control over their lands, and in strengthening destructive production models.
Brazil's would-be cocoa king aims to revolutionize industry with giant farm
- Reuters
- 22 April 2025
The Schmidt Agricola family business is planning a 10,000-hectare cocoa farm in the Brazilian state of Bahia, where similar super-sized cocoa farms are also under development in partnership with large cocoa companies like Cargill and Barry Callebaut.
DRC’s plans to dramatically increase palm oil production
- One Earth
- 22 April 2025
Plantations et Huileries du Congo, the DRC’s leading palm oil producer, plans to exponentially increase its palm oil production, but this strategy could exacerbate land conflicts.
Il boom dell'olio di palma in Congo: ecco cosa sta succedendo
- Corriere della Sera
- 21 April 2025
La Repubblica Democratica del Congo (RDC) sta aumentando la coltivazione di olio di palma, con l'idea di diventare un Paese esportatore e di affacciarsi alla produzione di biocombustibili, rischiando però di mettere a repentaglio la sopravvivenza di intere comunità e di creare nuovi conflitti, in un Paese già ai primi posti delle classifiche mondiali per fame e insicurezza alimentare.
Pourquoi faut-il des gendarmes pour replanter un domaine en litige au Cameroun ?
- Mongabay
- 18 April 2025
Les gendarmes camerounais ont, à la fin du mois de mars, fait usage de gaz lacrymogènes pour disperser des villageois qui manifestaient contre la replantation de palmiers à huile sur des terres en litige.
Des champs devenus supermarchés : la perte croissante de terres agricoles en Europe
- Euractiv
- 16 April 2025
En Europe, l'appropriation de terres agricoles par d'autres acteurs, tels que des investisseurs et des supermarchés, suscite des inquiétudes en faisant grimper les prix et en réduisant l'accès des futurs agriculteurs, ainsi qu'en menaçant la sécurité alimentaire et la durabilité de l'UE.
From farmland to supermarkets: the growing loss of agricultural land in Europe
- Euractiv
- 16 April 2025
In Europe, the appropriation of agricultural land by other actors, such as investors and supermarkets, raises concerns by driving up prices and reducing access for future farmers, as well as threatening food security and the sustainability of the EU.
The abuse allegations at rubber plantations supplying top tiremakers
- Bloomberg
- 16 April 2025
Bloomberg's Big Take podcast looks at an investigation into allegations of sexual coercion at plantations run by Socfin, a rubber company supplying top tiremakers.
The Rubber Barons: Sex for work allegations hang over Socfin plantations supplying top tiremakers
- Bloomberg
- 16 April 2025
Hubert Fabri and Vincent Bolloré own plantations accused of land appropriation and labor abuses. Their company says it has taken steps to improve matters, but a trip to West Africa shows sexual coercion claims remain widespread.
US: Gerawan sues Maine pension system for details behind Prima Wawona’s collapse, bankruptcy
- San Joaquin Valley Sun
- 16 April 2025
Prima Wawona, the one-time largest peach producer in the world, financially rotted in the few years after private equity players took control. A former owner wants to know how.
The growing competition for Africa’s agricultural land
- GIS Reports
- 15 April 2025
Global demand for arable land is rising, making Africa a key target for large-scale acquisitions to tackle food and energy challenges.