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Agriculture: Rising liquidity
- IPE Real Assets
- 06 April 2020
Large institutional investors are pouring capital into global agricultural markets, and Australia has been a key target.
Land seizures and COVID-19: the twin threats to Brazil’s indigenous peoples
- Reuters
- 04 April 2020
While the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the health of Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Amazon, pressure over their traditional lands is increasing as grileiros –individuals who illegally seize land – sense an opportunity to exploit the crisis.
Uganda: Land rights defenders charged with criminal trespass, released on police bond
- witnessradio.org
- 03 April 2020
Soldiers protecting a Kiryandongo Sugar tractor arrested and beat a farmer for attempting to stop the tractor from ploughing up his 4 acre maize farm.
Lao villagers lose farmland to Chinese banana grower
- Radio Free Asia
- 03 April 2020
Villagers in Laos say a Chinese-owned banana plantation has unfairly acquired the land of 46 families in the northern part of the country, many of whom were coerced by authorities into selling for a miniscule compensation package.
Unravelling the Socfin/Bolloré plantations, thanks to Profundo
- GRAIN
- 02 April 2020
To help share Profundo's report more widely, we made two infographics from it on the ownership structure of the plantations and who benefits from the revenues they generate.
Ukraine passes IMF-backed land reform bill, social cuts as coronavirus spreads
- World Socialist
- 01 April 2020
A law to privatise farmland, ultimately for the benefit of global finance and agribusiness, was pushed through Parliament under pressure from the IMF in the context of the coronavirus crisis.
Cameroon women denounce "destruction" of forests and community by agribusiness giants
- Earthsight
- 01 April 2020
The campaign against Cameroon’s agribusiness titans was reenergised in March after women living near several controversial plantations denounced the loss of community lands and rights, and the destruction of native forests.
Report from World Bank/IFC's Compliance Advisory Ombudsman on the case of Salala Rubber Corporation
- IFC/CAO
- 31 Mar 2020
SOCFIN's subsidiary, the Salala Rubber Corporation, rejects dispute resolution with 22 communities in Liberia who filed a complaint with the IFC's Compliance Advisory Ombudsman, citing concerns with the "partiality of CAO’s team".
Australia: Foreigners face extra FIRB hurdles buying farms during virus emergency
- Register
- 31 Mar 2020
Foreign buyers stepping into the rural property or agribusiness sector will have to negotiate new regulatory hurdles aimed at preventing a rush of opportunistic offshore-based takeovers during the coronavirus emergency.
Two MPs block signing of Ukrainian farmland market bill
- UNIAN
- 31 Mar 2020
Two Ukrainian legislators have blocked the signing of the law lifting the long-standing ban on farmland sales, which was voted overnight Tuesday in a bid to unblock IMF funding.
Ukraine opens up land market in bid for $8 billion IMF package
- Reuters
- 31 Mar 2020
Ukrainian lawmakers voted on Tuesday to lift a ban on the sale of farmland that has stood for nearly two decades, clearing one of the hurdles needed to unlock an $8 billion loan package from the International Monetary Fund.
Interview with Mrs Marie Noelle ETONDE, SYNAPARCAM (Cameroun)
- Landcam
- 30 Mar 2020
In Cameroon, women are the ones who bring food home, and when there is enough, we sell it. The income allows us to meet other needs. Today, we no longer have this possibility because of the agro-industries, like SOCAPALM