Cresud controls 370,000 ha in the province of Salta, in the ancestral lands of the Wichi people, where, in the first months of 2020, nine children died from malnutrition and lack of water.
UkrLandFarming has been facing hard times due to complicated situation around its owner Oleh Bakhmatyuk, a Ukrainian businessman who is active in several businesses including agriculture, mass media, and finance.
- largescaleagriculture.com
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05 Mar 2020
The ANZ bank has agreed to provide a financial package to Cambodian families forcibly displaced by a sugar company the Australian bank loaned money to in 2011.
More than 35,000 people from 20 villages are homeless after being evicted from about 9,300 acres [3,764 ha] of land in Kiryandongo District to pave way for large scale farming by foreign-held companies
- Daily Monitor
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25 February 2020
Au Cameroun, le ministre des Domaines, du Cadastre et des Affaires foncières fait de la lutte contre l’accaparement des terres à des fins spéculatives son cheval de bataille.
- Eco Matin
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24 February 2020
In the next decade, 400 million acres of U.S. farmland will change hands. A land justice advocate sees a timely opportunity to counteract entrenched income inequality and systemic racism.
- Civil Eats
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24 February 2020
Daybreak Cropping, a partnership between Warakirri Asset Management and the Canadian Public Sector Pension Investment Board, paid $97 million for the 22,000 ha broadacre farm.
- The Standard
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21 February 2020
Letter calls on UK, US and Dutch governments to investigate the growing humanitarian crisis in Kiryandongo district, Uganda, where thousands of families are being evicted by an agribusiness company that they are backing.
- witnessradio.org
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18 February 2020
Le parlement malgache a egalement révélé que 105.000 ha de terrains aménageables sont disponibles sur le territoire national aux investisseurs
- NewsMada
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07 February 2020
Chinese sugarcane concessionaire Rui Feng and four linked firms seemed to have shut down their operations in the combined 40,000-hectare sugarcane plantation in northern Cambodia, with little public notice of the closure. All firms have faced multiple land disputes, especially with indigenous minorities.
- VoA Cambodia
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04 February 2020
Angola has a high potential for agriculture on a large scale according to the World Bank, which is working with the Angolan government and the private agro-industrial sector to strengthen the chain of agricultural supplies
- Macau Hub
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04 February 2020
Les Chambres d'agriculture France posent des questions sur les nouvelles formes de financiarisation des systèmes agricoles et alimentaires
- Plein champ
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03 February 2020
Companies from countries across the world have acquired fertile Nile-irrigated land for growing food crops, non-food agricultural commodities such as alfalfa, flowers, tobacco, and biofuels, rearing livestock and logging trees.
- Pulitzer Center
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01 February 2020
Sustainable Development Institute has begun working with local people in Bomi to empower them to resist a wave of land grabs in that western county led by elites and concessioners.
- FrontPageAfrica
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29 January 2020
Yala swamp in Siaya County whose recently announced takeover has ran into fresh controversy after Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi issued new conditions to the new investor.
- The Nation
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29 January 2020
Serbia has neither clear rules of the game nor a development strategy for the agricultural sector, which is why the government confuses itself with Gulf State investors in secret meetings and makes real deals under the grain.
CRR’s sustainability analysis shows that deforestation and fires have taken place on TIAA’s farmland portfolio in Brazil, enabling negative social impacts on local communities.
La juriste malgache Arlette Ramaroson indique que dans le projet Daewoo, il n’y a pas encore eu de signature d’accord, mais cette fois-ci, l’accord est déjà fait sans consultation au préalable des habitants locaux.
- Madagascar Tribune
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22 January 2020
The Dutch National Contact Point for the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) today declared a complaint from three Friends of the Earth groups (Milieudefensie (Netherlands), SDI (Liberia) and WALHI (Indonesia)) against Dutch bank ING admissible.ING has been ignoring abuses in the palm oil sector for years.
- Milieudefensie
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20 January 2020
Agrivision – a Norfund investee company – is helping to increase national food production by utilising modern farming methods and new technologies.
45.000 hectares de terres viennent d'être attribuées au Ministère de l’agriculture par le conseil national d’affectation des terres par une décision prise de manière "collégiale" à la faveur d’une séance de travail à laquelle prenait également part le Directoire du géant Olam
- Pyramid Media Gabon
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17 January 2020
An executive decree issued by President Bolsonaro late last year could turn over vast swathes of public land to large-scale private owners, escalating conflicts with indigenous and traditional communities who utilize those lands.
Rep. Doug Beck (D-St. Louis) has offered House Bill 1492, which would halt any future foreign corporate ownership of Missouri farmland.
- Missourian
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15 January 2020
Oxfam a développé un guide sur les investissements fonciers à grande échelle en matière d’agriculture.
- Telegramme 228
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10 January 2020
Le végétalisme ou véganisme est « une philosophie et un mode de vie qui cherche à exclure autant que possible et la quasi-totalité des formes d’exploitation
La banque mondiale propose de reformer le secteur foncier au Burkina Faso. Certaines propositions sont « une porte ouverte à l’accaparement des terres » selon la FENOP.
Memorandum du « Mouvement Citoyen contre l’Accaparement et l’Aliénation des Terres du WALO »
A little-known company, Camvert, intends to convert 60,000 hectares of forest adjacent to Campo Ma’an National Park into oil palm plantations.
- Mongabay
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25 December 2019
Nationalist and left wing members of the Sri Lankan parliament are putting pressure on the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government to drastically modify the US-Lanka Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact on land registration
- Lanka Web
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13 December 2019
NGOs from Korea and Indonesia file OECD complaint against POSCO International for causing palm oil abuses