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Brazil's Eike Batista eyes new $500 mln Gulf investment in 'supercane' project
- Reuters
- 31 Mar 2025
The UAE-supported project aims to grow a specially bred sugarcane variety for aviation biofuel on 70,000 hectares of farmland in Brazil
Tether expands ownership in Latin American agricultural firm Adecoagro to 70%
- Cryptonews
- 27 Mar 2025
Adecoagro, which farms 210,400 hectares in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay for sugar, dairy and ethanol production, has entered into a transaction agreement with Tether Investments, part of the Tether Group, which runs the world’s largest stablecoin.
Un gigante cripto invertirá USD 600 millones en la Argentina para quedarse con el control de Adecoagro
- Infobae
- 27 Mar 2025
El Grupo Tether se quedará con el control de Adecoagro, la empresa agroalimenticia argentina que también opera en Brasil y Uruguay, mientras está acumulando acciones de Bioceres
Harvard stole Brazilian land. It’s time to make amends.
- Harvard Crimson
- 25 Mar 2025
Perhaps no country has been affected by Harvard’s land grabs more than Brazil, home to nearly half of the University’s farmland acquisitions.
Better Cotton still in denial one year after Fashion Crimes report
- Earthsight
- 20 Mar 2025
Better Cotton has released an update to the ‘action plan’ it put in place to curb unsustainable and illegal practices in Brazil’s cotton sector but it fails to even acknowledge the reality of land grabbing that has underpinned the sector’s expansion in recent decades at the expense of native ecosystems and the livelihoods of traditional communities.
Just Climate secures $175m to invest in agricultural decarbonization
- Valor
- 18 Mar 2025
Al Gore-backed private equity firm Just Climate has secured its first round of funding from two major global investors to begin investing in solutions aimed at reducing agricultural emissions.
Notice of sale of farmland in Brazil and dissolution of a specified subsidiary
- Mitsui
- 17 Mar 2025
Mitsui & Co announces the sale of all of the farmland owned by its Brazilian subsidiary Agricola Xingu to the Brazil farming giant SLC Agrícola S.A.
SLC faz mais duas aquisições e chega a R$ 1,7 bi em M&As
- TheAgriBiz
- 14 Mar 2025
Companhia dos Logemann comprou duas fazendas da Mitsui, assumindo o “filé mignon” em Minas Gerais a um preço extremamente atrativo
Brasil: SLC compra Sierentz por US$ 135 milhões e passa a ter 66% de terras arrendadas
- Brazil Journal
- 07 Mar 2025
A SLC Agrícola anunciou a aquisição da Sierentz – outra produtora agrícola – por US$ 135 milhões, aprofundando sua estratégia asset light e chegando a dois terços de terras arrendadas.
Land Grabbers, with support from sectors of the state, attack communities in the Cerrado of Piauí
- Rede Social
- 13 February 2025
Threats, intimidation and armed militias prevent the free movement of community residents in their own territories. The Collective of Traditional Peoples and Communities of the Cerrado denounces violence by land grabbers, who are supported by sectors of the state.
Brasil. Amenazas y asesinatos marcan una zona de avance del agronegocio en la Amazonía
- Resúmen Latino Americano
- 30 January 2025
Amacro, es el nuevo acrónimo para designar la nueva expansión de la frontera agrícola que viene promoviendo el acaparamiento de cerca de 6,5 millones de hectáreas de tierras públicas en la región, concentrando 10% de los conflictos por tierras y el 26% de todos los asesinatos de campesinos en el país.
Microsoft and re.green sign a second deal on Amazon and Atlantic forests restoration
- Carbon Herald
- 27 January 2025
Through its two carbon credit agreements with Microsoft, the company will work on restoring a total of 33,000 hectares of land in parts of the Amazon and Atlantic forests.