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Nigeria: Edo communities accuse Okomu Oil of land grabbing
- Vanguard
- 03 November 2020
Some communities where Okomu Palm Oil Plc allegedly acquired farmland to expand its operations have cried out over an alleged forceful occupation of their land.
Unifrutti Group acquires Oranfrizer, Italy’s main producer of blood oranges, with capital from the Carlyle Group
- Carlyle Group
- 02 November 2020
Direct ownership of the land located in different climatic regions of the world enables the Unifrutti to produce and distribute fresh fruit that is always in season to all markets.
Morocco, the discreet destination of Spanish investors
- HortiDaily
- 02 November 2020
Spanish companies operating in Morocco keep a low profile and avoid the media spotlight, as they don't want to be accused of relocating their agricultural business to the third world.
Farmers buy back Riverina holding from US fund
- AFR
- 01 November 2020
American pension fund giant TIAA sold its Southern Riverina farming aggregation between Wagga Wagga and Albury in southern NSW to local Australian farmers after more than a decade of ownership.
Insecure land tenure in Port Loko: Affects on women farmers' livelihood from large scale agricultural investments
- Radio Bankasoka
- 31 October 2020
The Sierra Leone Agriculture signed a 50-year lease for 41,582 hectares of land for the development of palm oil, displacing over 30,000 residents and farmers, mostly women, in the Northwest district of Sierra Leone
Two Karuturi directors file suit against receivers over property
- The Standard
- 31 October 2020
Two directors of the bankrupt Karuturi flower farm have moved to court accusing the company’s creditors and receivers of destroying a property they had been using as a wildlife and bird-watching lodge for "high value" visitors
Australia: Consolidated Pastoral Company sale finalised with British investor Guy Hands for at least $500 million
- ABC
- 30 October 2020
The sale includes just under 300,000 head of cattle, nine pastoral leases across the Northern Territory and Queensland totalling around 3.2 million hectares, and a 90 per cent stake in a feedlot business in Indonesia.
Indonesia’s ‘militarized agriculture’ raises social, environmental red flags
- Mongabay
- 28 October 2020
Observers and activists have raised concerns about the leading role the Indonesian government plans to give to the military and to big corporations in a program to establish vast crop plantations across the country.
Chinese could draw the curtains on historic Tassie property
- Beef Central
- 28 October 2020
Australia’s largest dairy operation, Tasmania’s historic Van Diemen’s Land Company, is reportedly on the verge of being offloaded by its Chinese businessman owner Xianfeng Lu.
The price of palm
- A Growing Culture
- 24 October 2020
Broadcast with Joseph Rahall, Shiaka Sama and Frédéric Mousseau that looks at the struggle over land around Socfin's 18,500 ha oil palm concession in Sierra Leone.
Suffering silenced in Sierra Leone
- FOEE
- 23 October 2020
SOCFIN's operations in Sierra Leone is one of 5 cases documented by Friend of the Earth Europe to highlight the lack of accountability of European multinationals
‘Digital land grab’ deprives traditional LatAm peoples of ancestral lands: Report
- Mongabay
- 21 October 2020
Georeferencing — a digital mapping technique employed by South American governments to register land ownership — is being regularly used by landgrabbers and companies to expel traditional communities from ancestral lands.