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The socio-environmental challenges for China’s palm oil business in Indonesia
- MAR
- 22 September 2022
Protestors accused the Chinese company PT Julong Group Indonesia of taking over local land illegally for palm oil cultivation.
Natural resources, land grabbing and resistance in Africa. With PLAAS
- CORA
- 21 September 2022
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Cows and chillies – the CPEC plan to revamp agriculture and livestock
- Pakistan Today
- 21 September 2022
Royal Group of China has established a laboratory in Pakistan to develop buffalo embryos of elite animals and plans to set up a buffalo dairy farm of 8,000 heads.
Give us back our 17,000 hectares of land for commercial farming - Torgorme landowners to govt
- Ghanaian Times
- 21 September 2022
The Chiefs and Landowners of Torgorme in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region, Ghana want lands back that were taken under an irrigation Project of the Ghana-Millennium Development Agency.
Astra Agro Lestari in Indonesia: Ongoing criminalisation, human rights abuses and land grabbing
- FIDH
- 21 September 2022
Letter from Indigenous Peoples, civil society, and community-based organisations to household consumer goods companies demanding they immediately suspend Indonesia’s second largest palm oil company from their supply chains.
Ogun partners World Bank on easy access to agricultural lands
- BusinessDay
- 21 September 2022
The partnership is expected to remove bureaucratic obstacles that hinder easy access to lands for agricultural and industrial investments.
Zombo leaders give 10 acres of land for constructing a tea factory
- TND News
- 16 September 2022
Elite Agro of UAE starts aquiring land for tea production and processing in Uganda
European Parliament votes in favour of strong deforestation-free products law
- Earthsight
- 14 September 2022
The law seeks to impose supply chain due diligence obligations on companies that import and trade forest risk commodities, such as cattle, soy and wood.
US farmland investment trust seeks to raise £200m in London IPO
- IP&E
- 12 September 2022
Intl Farming Investment Management is seeking to raise £200m as it lists a US farmland investment trust on the London Stock Exchange
Oil palm plantations and water grabbing: Ivory Coast and Gabon
- WRM
- 12 September 2022
Industrial palm oil production in West and Central Africa is mainly controlled by five multinational corporations, and could continue expansion. Plantations take up large tracts of land and water. The current water crisis in these territories would not exist if corporations had not grabbed the land from communities.
From Asia to Africa: Tentacles of oil palm plantations are squeezing communities dry
- WRM
- 12 September 2022
There is no other crop that has grown faster globally in the last decade than palm oil. This almost uncontrollable expansion leaves a deep trail of destruction and conflicts around it. As companies take over more community land, they also grab the water sources from them.
Oil palm plantations and water grabbing: Ivory Coast and Gabon
- WRM
- 12 September 2022
The impact on water availability for communities that live in and around industrial oil palm plantations is systematic and dramatic.