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Elite Agro and Khalifa Fund sign MoU

Fruitnet.com
22 July 2020

Elite Agro has signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding with Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development to manage and operate a number of farms in the UAE

Run for nature: The fight to save Africa’s forests

Slow Food
21 July 2020

As the world concentrates on dealing with COVID-19 pandemic, multinational companies continue to evict communities from their land, tearing down their lives and their sovereignty to plant monocrops like oil palm and sugar cane in Africa, or GMO soy in South America.

MCC could potentially shift millions of hectares of land into private control, says US-based think tank

Daily FT
21 July 2020

The Oakland Institute, independent policy think tank based in the US, in a recent report said the compact between Sri Lanka and the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) could potentially shift millions of hectares of land in the country into private control

Feronia Inc. enters into restructuring purchase agreement

Globe Newswire
21 July 2020

Feronia announces that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with Straight KKM 2 Ltd that provides for the acquisition of its operating subsidiary, Plantations et Huileries du Congo.

Covid-19 compounds local ire against palm oil firms in West Africa

Earthsight
16 July 2020

A new wave of alleged environmental and human rights abuses by Wilmar, Socfin and others sees renewed calls for action

The impact of COVID-19 on landgrabbing across Africa

Amandla
15 July 2020

Is the pandemic opening up forms of organizing to restore community control over resources or will it consolidate the efforts of those already holding the balance of power to usurp community control over land?

Uhuru cracks the whip on Del Monte land row

The Nation
15 July 2020

Kenya's President has intervened in a land dispute between Murang’a residents and Del Monte Foods after being pressured by the US government as part of talks around the proposed free trade agreement.

‘In the plantations there is hunger and loneliness’: The cultural dimensions of food insecurity in Papua

The Gecko Project
14 July 2020

A decade ago, the Indonesian government began to heavily promote large-scale plantation in southern Papua. An investigation recently published explored how some outside investors gained rights to the land and the fallout for the indigenous population. Children were suffering from malnutrition while agricultural commodities are exported from their ancestral land.

Privatisation 'wave' hurts poor as pandemic heightens risks

Reuters
14 July 2020

A push to privatise land and other resources in countries from Ukraine to Papua New Guinea is hurting indigenous people and the rural poor, while increasing the risks linked to climate change.

Real estate’s challenges could push investors towards farmland

PERE
14 July 2020

As institutional investors continue to seek “pockets of calm” amid the turmoil, farmland’s resilience during the global financial crisis and the pandemic’s immediate aftermath is likely to be top of mind.

Communities in West and Central Africa resist industrial oil palm plantations, even in times of Covid-19

WRM
14 July 2020

While palm oil companies present themselves as benevolent donors during the pandemic, communities living in and around these plantations tell another story.

Preah Vihear court drops charges against villagers

Phnom Penh Post
09 July 2020

The Preah Vihear Provincial Court in Cambodia has dropped all charges against eight ethnic Kuoy villagers who were in a land dispute with the Hengfu Group Sugar Industry Co Ltd since 2014.

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Elite Agro and Khalifa Fund sign MoU

Run for nature: The fight to save Africa’s forests

MCC could potentially shift millions of hectares of land into private control, says US-based think tank

Feronia Inc. enters into restructuring purchase agreement

Covid-19 compounds local ire against palm oil firms in West Africa

The impact of COVID-19 on landgrabbing across Africa

Uhuru cracks the whip on Del Monte land row

‘In the plantations there is hunger and loneliness’: The cultural dimensions of food insecurity in Papua

Privatisation 'wave' hurts poor as pandemic heightens risks

Real estate’s challenges could push investors towards farmland

Communities in West and Central Africa resist industrial oil palm plantations, even in times of Covid-19

Preah Vihear court drops charges against villagers

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