Mega-agribusiness corporations are using digital land registries as well as georeferencing technologies to deceitfully obtain property deeds that deprive Indigenous communities of their lands.
- Brown Political Review
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25 April 2023
There have been protests by the farmers that have plantations in the Forest Reserves as the State moves to hand them over to some foreign partners for oil palm plantations.
The partners are aiming to develop a 390 hectare avocado plantation at Agris’ flagship Ndabibi farm in Naivasha, Kenya
Campesinos y campesinas de Honduras exigen aprobación del Decreto de Emergencia sobre el acceso y legalización de las tierras como una medida para contrarrestar el acaparamiento de tierras por parte de empresarios nacionales e internacionales.
- Resumen Latinoamericano
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19 April 2023
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative to Liberia, Mariatou Njie, wants the government to serve as a gatekeeper in the area of agricultural investment.
- Daily Observer
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19 April 2023
Aparece ante nosotros la clara imagen de la bifurcación entre mundos y no cabe la menor duda de cuál de ellos debe extinguirse. Las últimas movilizaciones populares en Francia de les Soulèvements de la Terre (los levantamientos de la Tierra) contra el acaparamiento de tierras y aguas, nos anuncian un giro drástico en este combate.
Kilter Rural was recently awarded a US$50m mandate from a large US financial institution to invest in Australian agriculture.
As the Malawi government hunts for land to establish mega farms in the country, Salima Sugar Company has offered 3,500 hectares of its 5,000 hectares that are lying idle towards the cause.
The Korean corporation POSCO International is in talks with the government of Uzbekistan for a US$196 million textile investment, that includes lands for the cultivation of cotton.
Ministry of Agriculture will finance state corporations to put 500,000 acres of their idle land under maize production even as the government seeks to lease out more chunks of unutilised farms to the private sector.
- East African
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15 April 2023
Empresas chinas acaparan terrenos de cultivo en Tehuacán, Tlacotepec de Benito Juárez y Tepanco de López, en México, para la producción de hortalizas que se llevan directamente a su país, informó el director de Desarrollo Rural de este municipio, Armando Ginés Bravo
- La Jornada de Oriente
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14 April 2023
In the face of increased land grabbing and speculation, the European Commission must put a common land governance framework on the political agenda in coming months to ensure a future for farmers and protect the well-being of citizens.
- EU Observer
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14 April 2023
La entrada de fondos de inversión en el campo, la subida de precios, el descenso de la rentabilidad y la falta de mano de obra son algunos de los motivos que han porvocado la creación de la nueva plataforma SOS Rural, que aúna a más de 300 colectivos del campo con reivindicaciones comunes.
The fund acquired the farmland and forest plots through its subsidiaries Zemvalde Forest and Zemvalde Agro.
Au Kenya, l’accord du gouvernement kenyan avec la Zambie pour la production de maïs sur 20 000 hectares continue de susciter la polémique. Après la société civile, c’est au tour de Greenpeace Africa de monter au créneau pour critiquer vertement cette entente.
- Agence Ecofin
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11 April 2023
Communication Manager Hellen Dena said it was unsettling for the ministry to lease land in Zambia when Kenya has about 5.8 million hectares of fertile land.
Des "tables par pays" ont été créés afin de développer la production agricole dans 12 pays "frères"
- Agence Anadolu
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10 April 2023
African Agriculture, une entreprise américaine qui prévoit de cultiver de la luzerne pour nourrir le bétail au Sénégal, s'apprête à lancer une première offre publique de vente sur le Nasdaq
‘Non-traditional’ farmland buyers help drive up prices, highlighting tight land supplies across Canada
- Alberta Farm Express
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04 April 2023
In recent years, the Ethiopian government has been enthusiastically renting large swathes of its territory to both local and foreign investors, regardless of who is already living there.
- Mail & Guardian
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03 April 2023
Además, hay un creciente fenómeno de extranjerización de la propiedad de la tierra que trae un fenómeno de desplazamiento social, entre otros problemas.
- Caracol Radio
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03 April 2023
Em Ituna-Itatá, no Pará, 42% das fazendas que aparecem sobre a terra indígena foram cadastradas por uma única pessoa, Jorge Luiz Barbosa Corrêa
- Epoca Negoçios
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01 April 2023
The Beligian retail company Colruyt Group has recently started buying its own farmland to produce foods for its supermarkets.
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
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.
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
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.
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