Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has acquired a majority stake in Mitolo Family Farms-- Australia’s largest potato producer and owner of one of the country's largest horticultural land aggregations.
Palm oil from Brazil's Agropalma is certified as organic, fair and sustainable, and the oil is sold to food giants like Ferrero, Kellogg’s and Nestlé. But much of the plantation land of this purported model company was likely grabbed illegally.
- Rainforest Rescue
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30 Mar 2023
Forests in Cambodia have seen large-scale deforestation with rubber and cassava plantations, illegal logging and other economic interests, but despite the criminalisation, communities are fighting back
The tentacles of India-based Mozambique Holdings Ltd reached the locality of Mabu in 2013, when it acquired a 10,000-hectare land concession from the old tea company Madal SARL.
The Global Peoples’ Caravan for Food, Land, and Climate Justice is an awareness-raising and mobilization campaign to demand governments address the interconnected issues of hunger, land and resource grabs, and the climate crisis.
A Mongabay investigation into land-grabbing in the Brazilian Amazon has led to the suspension of the sustainability certificate of the country’s second top palm oil exporter
Everdem, empresa pionera del sistema de compra y venta de ganado por pantalla televisada en Paraguay, presentó un evento sin precedentes: la primera subasta pública de una propiedad agropecuaria de dimensiones extraordinarias en una ubicación estratégica en el Chaco Paraguayo.
Agropalma, con 107 000 hectáreas registradas y la única empresa brasileña con el certificado de RSPO, está acusada de acaparamiento de tierras en el estado de Pará.
African Agriculture (AAGR), a US company planning to grow alfalfa for livestock feed in Senegal, is set to launch an initial public offering on the Nasdaq exchange. But the land concession it holds used to be part of the Ndiaël nature reserve, a wetland that’s home to many threatened species and a key grazing ground for local herders.
Journalist Richard Assheton visits the Ndiaël region in northern Senegal, where he meets communities fighting a decade-long campaign against the sale of 20,000 ha, now held by Frank Timis' African Agriculture Inc
Communiqué et retour en vidéo sur le lancement officiel du projet agricole #YaakaareFuuta à Boghé (2 033 ha)
Satellite data and imagery show the expansion of large agricultural fields whittling away at already-fragmented tracts of primary forest in eastern Paraguay’s Pindo’I Indigenous Territory over the past several years.
Water Asset Management has bought up thousands of acres of irrigated land across Arizona, California, Colorado and Nevada as well as pending deals in New Mexico and Texas.
Major US farm groups are largely staying on the sidelines for now as lawmakers wrestle with constituents' concerns that China and other foreign interests are buying up US cropland and threatening the nation's food security.
PT Kenertec Power Systems, a company belonging to the Korindo group has agreed to end a long-running lawsuit intended to silence a civil society campaign to protect rainforest, in Indonesia’s Papua province, threatened by Korindo’s extensive palm oil operations after a judge in Germany set to dismiss the case.
Des lots d’équipements sportifs ont été offerts aux équipes finalistes de la zone 16 de Gnith par les Fermes de la Téranga en plus d’une enveloppe de plus d’un million de francs CFA
Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC) strongly condemns the agricultural land grab by military.
PKRC is member organization of LA Via Campesina.
Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali offered India 200 acres of land for exclusive cultivation and production of millets in honour of the United Nations declaring the year 2023 as the International Year of Millet
Tanzania has opened up opportunities for DRC investors to invest in agriculture, livestock, fisheries, manufacturing, mining and tourism
L’ancienne ambassadrice des États-Unis au Niger a magnifié jeudi les efforts d’investissements consentis par les Fermes de la Téranga dans la culture de la Luzerne sur une zone sahélienne
Pakistan General Headquarters of Lands Directorate has asked the Board of Revenue, Punjab to handover state lands of 45,267 acres to the Pakistan Army for corporate agriculture farming.
- Business Recorder
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17 Mar 2023
A petroleira TotalEnergies aterrissa no Brasil no setor de energia eólica com um histórico de greenwashing, expulsão de cidades inteiras e investimentos em combustíveis fósseis no continente africano.
Au Mali, le prix du sucre grimpe malgré les projets de production locale - sur 20 000 ha - avec des investisseurs chinois et indiens
La diputada nacional Graciela Landriscini, del bloque del Frente de Todos, presentó un proyecto de ley que propone derogar el decreto 820/16 promulgado durante el gobierno de Mauricio Macri, por el cual se modificó el régimen de tierras rurales para facilitar transacciones.
Kementerian Pertahanan mengakui jika Proyek Food Estate singkong di Kalimantan Tengah mangkrak setelah dua tahun karena belum adanya pendanaan untuk melanjutkan program.
- Pantau Gambut
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15 Mar 2023
Danish investors from the Romania Farm Invest bought a farm of 1,370 hectares in Romania for EUR 10 million through one of their companies registered here – JD Agro Cocora.
- Romania Insider
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14 Mar 2023
Indigenous leader of the Awyu people filed an environmental and land rights lawsuit challenging the plan by a Malaysian-owned palm oil company that will clear tens of thousands of hectares of West Papuan forest.
- Pusaka Bentala Rakyat
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14 Mar 2023
One of Australia’s largest carbon aggregators has added three properties to its Cape York portfolio and launched an agriculture company to manage the cattle side of its operation.
Cette analyse vise à retracer les grandes étapes de cette saga.
Recent farmland purchases by Chinese, Middle Eastern, and other foreign government investors have raised concerns about food exports being prioritized over domestic consumption.
- The Capitolist
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12 Mar 2023