About 66 per cent of conflicts related to palm oil in West Kalimantan in the last two decades have yet to be resolved, according to a report recently issued by the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV).
The United University Professions' resolution calls for an end to TIAA landholdings “associated with deforestation and human rights abuses".
- TIAA Divest!
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29 January 2021
David Del Curto, S.A. is a leading Chilean fruit production, packing and export company, which produces over ten different fruit types across eleven farms, while also managing one of the largest nurseries in the country.
- https://apnews.com/press-release/pr-newswire/business-corporate-news-latin-america-and-caribbean-north-america-ownership-changes-b1439318c29b4248313c21e885a79407
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28 January 2021
A study published by FIAN International ‘Disruption or Déjà Vu? Digitalization, Land and Human Rights’ reveals how digital technologies have become new tools for land grabs and sources of profits.
A new report by an alliance of civil society organisations chronicles one of the most scandalous failures of development bank investment in agriculture.
- RIAO-RDC et al.
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28 January 2021
AVG Capital Partners will build a pig farm on 1,000 hectares of land in the Nghi Son Economic Zone to raise five million hogs a year.
- VN Express
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27 January 2021
DAL’s $225m greenfield project in Abu Hamad — a joint venture with the Royal Group of Abu Dhabi and about 10km from the banks of the Nile — is watered by 18km of canals drawing water from the world’s longest river.
Here is a new video about one of the biggest cases of agricultural land grabbing in Senegal: 20,000 hectares, first allocated to Senhuile-Sénéthanol, now known as Les Fermes de la Téranga.
Experts from South Africa conducted a 230,000 ha aerial land mapping and surveying exercise in Rhombe, Torma Bum and Komrabai Mamela as part of the UAE funded Rhombe Rice Project.
Hearing day in the case initiated against Bolloré by a collective of NGOs coordinated by Sherpa regarding the unethical practices of the Cameroonian Socapalm, directly linked to Bolloré.
Members of the Auyu tribe of Papua, Indonesia, are demanding a halt to the operations of palm oil company PT Indo Asiana Lestari (IAL), which appears to be gearing up to clear their ancestral forests. IAL’s concession is part of the Tanah Merah megaproject that is already dogged by allegations that key operating permits have been falsified.
A fund that supports Saudi agriculture investments abroad on the condition that at least 50 per cent of the project’s crops be exported to the Kingdom has tripled the value of its loans since 2016.
- Gulf News
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21 January 2021