Disputed land rights, food insecurity and pollution caused by large-scale export-based agriculture are main themes of the Cameroonian-made movie "The Big Banana".
MIGA—the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group—plays an important role in making agricultural FDI more effective by reducing investors’ perceived risks to encourage market entry while applying environmental and social performance standards that boost the project’s sustainability.
As the palm oil industry swept through Indonesia, it transformed millions of hectares of land into plantations. An opaque system supposed to improve rural livelihoods has left villagers waiting for profits — and answers.
- The Gecko Project
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12 December 2022
The much-discussed Congo land-lease, granting 200,000 hectares to South African farmers with a further 10 million hectares in the balance, appears to mark a departure from the usual terms underpinning foreign acquisition of fertile land by multinationals
- Pambazuka
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07 January 2010
The Congo ventures are not core businesses to be based in the Congo but instead, extensions of businesses located in South Africa
- Mail & Guardian
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12 Mar 2010
US government cable discusses 24 January 2010 meeting organised by Swiss Development Corporation, UN Food and Agriculture Organization and International Fund for Agricultural Investment on "Land, Investment, and Development," attended by many of the key players working on responsible international agro-industrial and land investment principles
- Wikileaks
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04 February 2010
The Mozambique Council of Ministers is considering a massive project along the Lurio River in northern Mozambique without consulting the estimated 500,000 affected people in the project area.
Water grabbing refers to situations where powerful actors take control of valuable water resources for their own benefit, depriving local communities whose livelihoods often depend on these resources and ecosystems.
New book, “Palms of controversies: Oil palm and development challenges,” says the problems is not the oil palm but the way people have chosen to exploit it.
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.
MCC is playing a key role in commodifying Africa’s farmlands
ProSAVANA continue à favoriser les investissements dans le Corridor de Nacala sans aborder le problème de l’accaparement des terres.
- Non à ProSavana
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27 August 2016
Après le groupe Louis Dreyfus, le deuxième plus gros investisseur français dans les terres agricoles se nomme Vincent Bolloré.
Complex web of data reveals large swathes of country controlled by small number of billionaires and large companies
China is one of the world's largest consumers of agricultural commodities such as soy and palm oil that drive deforestation globally. But it isn’t just Chinese consumption of these commodities that is helping fuel forest destruction. Global Witness new analysis sheds a spotlight on the often-overlooked role of Chinese banks as some of the biggest global financiers of deforestation.
- Global Witness
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07 June 2021
Japanese experts provide an analysis of the ProSavana project's concept note for the development of a large-scale agricultural project in Northern Mozambique.
- Landgrab-Japan
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20 December 2013
Satellite maps show the connection between Harvard and TIAA's farmland acquisitions in Brazil's Cerrado and the massive number of fires that have been burning in the region since July of this year.
- FOE US, GRAIN,NFFC, Rede Social
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22 October 2019
Private equity firms like Rabo Equity Advisors and IL&FS Investment Managers may be in talks with Karuturi.
Pension fund giant TIAA is investing its clients’ funds in farmland and agribusinesses tied to environmental and human rights abuses in Latin America.
Le MCC joue un role clé dans la marchandisation des terres rurales africaines
Award-winning Cameroonian journalist Madeleine Ngeunga and Fern’s Indra Van Gisbergen recently visited villages in the shadow of Socapalm’s oil palm plantations to see if issues driving the dispute between locals and the company are being resolved.
Outline of major Ukraine companies open to farmland investors
A global food crisis and rapid population growth are making farmland an increasingly attractive investment. Holly Black looks at the options.
There is a large gap between SOCFIN's “responsible management” policy and the reality of violence and destruction around its plantations, where, with the complicity of national governments, the company attempts to suppress people’s resistance.
With fires on their Cerrado properties, Harvard’s and TIAA’s deforestation exposure appears to be growing.
Une écrasante majorité des transactions foncières effectuées sur le continent ne respecte peu ou pas du tout une série de règles – appelées "directives volontaires pour une gouvernance responsable des régimes fonciers" – censées protéger les populations contre la rapacité des investisseurs internationaux, selon un rapport du Cirad.
Anuak indigenous people from Ethiopia’s Gambella region submitted a complaint today to the World Bank Inspection Panel implicating the Bank in grave human rights abuses perpetrated by the Ethiopian Government.
A six-month investigation by Gideon Sarpong, Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi and Audrey Travère has uncovered the extent to which the relentless exploitation of rubber and palm oil resources by Socfin is fueling deforestation and displacement of indigenous populations in Nigeria and Ghana.
- iWatch Africa
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06 November 2023
Des représentants communautaires provenant des quatre coins du Liberia se sont réunis du 27 au 29 novembre dans la ville de Bopolu, dans le Comté de Gbarpolu, afin d'examiner les répercussions des activités des concessions agricoles d’huile de palme au Liberia sur des terres déjà utilisées et détenues (de façon coutumière ou autre) par les communautés.
Background note to accompany a joint press release on the Kenyan government finding Karuturi Global Ltd guilty of tax evasion