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.
- Carlyle Group
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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.
- HortiDaily
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02 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.
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
- Radio Bankasoka
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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
- The Standard
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31 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.
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.
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.
- Beef Central
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28 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.
- A Growing Culture
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24 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
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.
Amandla talks to Jeff Wokulira Sebagala of Witness Radio, Uganda, one of the organizations that recently authored the report “land grabs at gunpoint.”