Several farmers in Phalaborwa, Limpopo, have lost land or grazing rights to a huge commercial citrus farming project
In the face of intensifying environmental and human rights violations, advocacy groups like Friends of the Earth are calling on the Brazilian and US governments to reign in land speculation and halt the expansion of soy plantations in the Cerrado.
Cerca de 18.000 hectáreas de concesiones de aceite de palma de AAL se superponen con tierras forestales de áreas protegidas de Indonesia, afirma el informe de FOE. Diez marcas han suspendido las compras a AAL, mientras Unilever y Olam son compradores y BlackRock poseía el 11 por ciento del grupo.
A new report has found that investors and agribusiness in Latin America are increasingly buying up small parcels of land with abundant water access, thus securing control over the vital resource.
The Butler Valley leases terminated by Arizona's governor only amount to about one quarter of Fondomonte’s total farm holdings in Arizona prior to October. Besides the 3500 acres that the company leased from the state, it privately controls almost 10,000 acres more further south and closer to Vicksburg.
- Arizona Capitol Times
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28 Mar 2024
The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty has adopted Day of the Landless in 2018 as an annual global action to give spotlight on the issue of global landlessness and highlight the land struggles of rural peoples in the Global South.
Fiagros are a new type of fund that can allow foreigners to circumvent legal restrictions and acquire land in Brazil.
- Brasil de Fato
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05 Mar 2024
Multada con 5 millones de euros por publicidad engañosa sobre el "diésel verde" en 2020, hasta enero de este año seguían llegando a las refinerías de Eni navios con aceite de palma desde Indonesia, incumpliendo su compromiso de estar "libre de aceite de palma" en 2022.
- Le Journal 2 L`Afrique
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24 February 2024
While farmers across Europe protest high costs and foreign competition, agribusiness investors continue to fortify their positions in the Spanish and European agricultural sector.
- Euronews
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22 February 2024
Con rentabilidades superiores al 15%, más de la mitad de las inversiones de 950 fondos de inversión dedicados a la alimentación y la agricultura, fueran en la adquisición de tierras de cultivo. Firmas de gestión de activos pueden reconfigurar la propiedad de la tierra en Europa.
- Euronwes
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20 February 2024
Local herders and pastoralists communities are contesting the ownership of at least 20,000 hectares located at AAGR’s Les Fermes de la Teranga (LFT) farm in Senegal
El segundo bosque más grande de Centroamérica se está tomando por la ganadería expansiva, la tala ilegal y el narcotráfico. Entre 2019 y 2021 se han perdido 226 mil hectáreas de bosque, mientras 100 mil cabezas de ganado avanzan sobre la área protegida.
- Criterio.hn
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31 January 2024
La presencia militar en los territorios indígenas de México ha traído consecuencias que van desde expropiación de tierras hasta masacres en contra de los pueblos.
Possible plans to develop large-scale agriculture in Suriname have sparked backlash from Indigenous communities and others who are concerned about deforestation of the Amazon and the fate of ancestral territories.
Surexport is a leading fully-integrated producer of strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries with land in Spain, Morocco, Portugal, and Kenya
Ukrainian businesses can now legally buy land in Ukraine as of Jan. 1 as part of the second phase of a historic decision in March 2020 to lift a near 20-year moratorium on the sale of land.
- Kyiv Independent
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16 January 2024
The palm oil industry’s expansion in Guatemala is causing a huge transfer of rural territory from traditional subsistence farming communities to a handful of palm oil mill owners.
El Tejido de Profesionales Indígenas de Argentina expresó su repudio al DNU del gobierno que entró en vigencia el día de hoy, sosteniendo que vulnera la forma de vida de las comunidades indígenas.
- El Ciudadano
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29 December 2023
The largest grain growing operation in Western Australia is expected to fetch close to $200 million after its owners, the Saudi Arabian government and a Perth-headquartered agricultural fund decided to sell.
JBS, outros frigoríficos e pecuaristas são réus em 17 ações civis públicas acusados de compra ilegal de gado e invasão das terras da Reserva Extrativista (Resex) Jaci-Paraná.
Farmland LP buys climate-resilient land, gets it certified organic, selects profitable crops, and picks up the tab on equipment. Then it rents fields to local farmers who want to increase production.
The Costa family has joined other wealthy families and an institutional investor in piling into a $120 million equity raising to fund the acquisition and development of three irrigation properties.
- Commercial Real Estate
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17 December 2023
A climate startup co-founded by a businessman behind a botched land deal for 400,000 ha in South Sudan has signed a deal to generate $1 billion of carbon credits in the DRC.
- Bloomberg
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13 December 2023
Mirova's LDN Fund has raised $208 million from public institutions and private investors and invested in companies like the Swiss company Pamoja which operates nut farms in Kenya and Tanzania
- Fintech Global
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06 December 2023
Una investigación de seis meses de Gideon Sarpong, Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi y Audrey Travère ha sacado a la luz las graves repercusiones que la explotación de los recursos de caucho y aceite de palma del Grupo Socfin han causado en la deforestación y el desplazamiento forzado de poblaciones indígenas en Nigeria y Ghana.
- Global Voices
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01 December 2023
One of the subsidiaries, PT Agro Nusa Abadi (ANA), was accused of seizing farmers' land in several villages covering approximately 5,000 hectares
Some of Western Australia's most sought-after cattle country is set to move from Chinese to Canadian ownership in a newly struck deal.
Le magazine annuel de FIAN Belgium présente des témoignages sur la repression contre les defenseurs des terres face à des entreprises comme SIAT, PHC/Feronia ou Socfin/Bolloré
- FIAN Belgium
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30 November 2023
Tensions are bubbling up at Arizona alfalfa farms as water becomes a top commodity. Local farmers say that their wells have dried up since since an Emirati alfalfa farm moved in.
L'Association des Femmes Riveraines d'Edéa (AFRISE), au Caméroun, a recueilli 316 signatures de soutien dans sa lutte face à la Socapalm, du groupe Socfin