This LDPI Working Paper Series includes work in progress presented at the 2024 Global Land Grabbing Conference in Bogotá, addressing urgent challenges related to land, water, and natural resource grabbing.
- Agrarian Conversations
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17 April 2024
El problema comenzó cuando la agroempresa británica Booker Tate puso en marcha el proyecto de desarrollo azucarero de Bibile con el objetivo de establecer una fábrica de caña de azúcar y grandes plantaciones.
- Global Voices
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16 April 2024
NGOs say a development bank mediation process is coercing communities into foregoing their rights to their territories and accepting a palm oil company's occupation of their lands without the time, resources, security and legal support required to adequately defend their interests.
- RIAO-RDC et al.
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04 April 2024
Des ONG affirment qu'un processus de médiation des banques de développement allemande et néerlandaise contraint des communautés à renoncer à leurs droits fonciers et à accepter l'occupation continue de leurs terres par une société de huile de palme, sans avoir eu le temps, les ressources, la sécurité et le soutien juridique nécessaires pour défendre leurs intérêts.
- RIAO-RDC et al.
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04 April 2024
Royal London Asset Management has acquired 21,000 acres of prime farmland in a £260m joint venture with South Yorkshire Pension Authority (SYPA); it's first investment into agriculture and natural capital.
The Company intends to expand operations in Sierra Leone and will transfer the same model to Ghana and Liberia and other countries across Africa, where approximately 90% of land suitable for restoration is held by smallholders.
- Investing News
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08 Mar 2024
Dans la province de Koh Kong, au Cambodge, des communautés locales luttent depuis 2006 contre l’accaparement de leurs terres. Après un long combat, un accord historique avec l’entreprise Tate & Lyle a permis la restitution d’une partie des terres et l’obtention d’une compensation financière
Klimat X intends to expand operations in Sierra Leone beyond the 57,000 ha that have been secured to date to at least 100,000 hectares and will transfer the same model to other countries across Africa, starting in Ghana and Liberia
En 2023, des groupes financiers ont acquis des exploitations espagnoles pour 2 milliards d’euros. Le principal syndicat des petits agriculteurs s’inquiète d’une ubérisation des campagnes, tandis que d’autres tentent de vendre au meilleur prix.
- Le Monde
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29 February 2024
The Regenerate European Sustainable Agriculture Fund will invest €40 million to establish blueberry farms in Central and Southern Portugal under the name Regen Blue
New report by EIA shows cacao and palm oil companies have systematically contributed to clearing at least 13,000 hectares between 2012 and 2021 in Peru’s most forest-rich regions of Loreto and Ucayali.
- Mongabay
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13 February 2024
Cibus Capital intends to buy degraded land and generate revenue with regenerative agriculture, sustainable timber, carbon credits or by making it more productive before selling it.
- Carbon Pulse
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09 February 2024