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Fields of gold: Financing the global land rush
- Cornell Press
- 30 July 2020
In her new book, Fields of Gold, Madeleine Fairbairn critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the financialization of farmland.
Defending tomorrow: The climate crisis and threats against land and environmental defenders
- Global Witness
- 29 July 2020
Global Witness annual report into the killings of land and environmental defenders in 2019 shows the highest number yet have been murdered in a single year. 212 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2019 – an average of more than four people a week.
Amazon land grabbers are destroying brazil nut groves for cattle pasture
- Climatechange News
- 27 July 2020
The invasion of large scale cattle breeding in areas inhabited by traditional populations is widespread in the Amazonian area.
Adecoagro obtained international credit of US $ 100 million and plans investments in Argentina
- eFarm News
- 27 July 2020
The firm Adecoagro, the largest producer of raw milk in Argentina, received a loan of US $ 100 million weeks ago from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), which will be used to make investments in the local agri-food sector.
World Bank-backed attempt to commercialize Madagascar’s beef industry falters
- Mongabay
- 24 July 2020
SMTP created BoViMa in 2014 with the ambition of capturing the regional market, supplying beef to islands in the Western Indian Ocean. Its plans remained in cold storage for years. In 2017, the IFC stepped in.
Extractivism, exclusion and conflicts in Senegal’s agro-industrial transformation
- Taylor & Francis
- 24 July 2020
"The Senhuile land-grab is an ongoing process, whose trajectory will depend on the possibility to construct and strengthen alliances among farmers’ and herders’ groups at local, regional and national levels to ensure recognition of pastoral land rights" says Maura Benegiamo
Victory for peasant and civic movements! ProSAVANA officially ended
- Mokai and JVC
- 24 July 2020
Sayaka Funada-Classen reports that the Japanese and Mozambican governments have announced the termination of ProSAVANA, a huge victory for Mozambican peasant movements and tri-national peoples solidarity
Fears growing for five indigenous Garifuna men abducted in Honduras
- The Guardian
- 23 July 2020
The Triunfo de la Cruz region has been embroiled in a struggle to save their ancestral land from developers, palm oil pagmnates and drug traffickers
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.