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Optimum compró más tierras y expande sus operaciones agrícolas en Estados Unidos
- Infobae
- 10 December 2019
La compañía líder en agricultura concentrada adquirió 2261 hectáreas en Georgia y la marca Generation Farms
DR Congo palm-oil firm Feronia accused of abuses
- BBC
- 26 November 2019
Feronia, a company 38% owned by the UK government’s development bank, has been accused of a series of environmental and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Letter from NGOs to the UK's CDC regarding its actions to undermine a community mediation process with Feronia
- RIAO et al.
- 25 November 2019
NGOs call on the CDC Group and all the development banks involved in the Feronia-PHC oil palm plantations to publicly issue a clear statement of support for the mediation process and to ensure the security of participating community members.
UK development bank accused of failure to safeguard Congolese workers
- Guardian
- 25 November 2019
The UK development bank has been accused of failing to protect workers from exposure to dangerous pesticides and paying “extreme poverty” wages on palm oil plantations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Ukraine, the land of quid pro quos
- Common Dreams
- 13 November 2019
If we are to take the matter of quid pro quos seriously, we should take the measure of over US$20 billion of aid forcing Ukraine to privatize its land and its economy for the profit of a few Western interests.
The Chain: Cerrado fires show TIAA and Harvard’s Endowment face mounting deforestation risks
- CRR
- 07 November 2019
With fires on their Cerrado properties, Harvard’s and TIAA’s deforestation exposure appears to be growing.
Farmland investors seek yields (almost) as high as an elephant’s eye
- INvestable Universe
- 31 October 2019
With very low interest rates having taken root across asset classes and investors abiding in their hunt for higher yields, the world’s largest manager of global farmland, Nuveen, says the season may be ripe for a strategic allocation to the $2.3 trillion market for U.S. farm real estate.
Bullish on cows: Fiera CEO bets on farmland for future growth
- Montreal Gazette
- 29 October 2019
One of Quebec’s largest private investors thinks he has found the perfect investment vehicles to make up for sagging bond returns: milk, almonds and maple syrup.
Harassment and arbitrary arrests of land defenders in the DRC
- RIAO-RDC
- 28 October 2019
RIAO-RDC and its international partners demand the immediate and unconditional release of nine land defenders who are currently being held in Kisangani Central Prison under the direction of the Canadian plantation company PHC-Feronia.
Harcèlement et arrestations arbitraires de défenseurs des terres en RD Congo
- RIAO-RDC
- 27 October 2019
Le RIAO-RDC et ses partenaires internationaux exigent la libération immédiate et sans conditions de leurs membres et leaders communautaires qui sont actuellement en détention à la prison centrale de Kisangani sous l'impulsion de la PHC-Feronia.
Divest Harvard holds protest about university’s Brazilian land ownership
- Harvard Crimson
- 22 October 2019
The student group Divest Harvard hosted a day of events calling attention to Harvard’s ownership of Brazilian land and reigniting its calls for the school to sell those holdings in the name of environmentalism.
Harvard and TIAA's farmland grab in Brazil goes up in smoke
- FOE US, GRAIN,NFFC, Rede Social
- 22 October 2019
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.