Conversations held with activists from around the world in May and June webinars of 2022 make clear the need for a movement to take pensions out of financial markets - including land grabs!
As the climate emergency gets more acute and devastating everyday, we can’t waste more time waiting for the decisive actions required to end the ravages caused by industrial agriculture in Brazil.
- Oakland Institute
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01 September 2022
Angola wants more Chinese investors to grow agricultural products in the African country that can be exported to China, says Angola’s minister for economy and planning.
As the Ukraine war sparks shortages, China looks to invest abroad to secure food supplies
Around the same time security forces were destroying markets and shops on Lubigi, two flower farms belonging to Uganda’s richest man, Sudhir Ruparelia, could be seen extending their reach into wetlands outside Kampala.
- African Arguments
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01 September 2022
Quand on interroge les communautés rurales du pays sur leurs difficultés, c’est le manque de terre qui est cité en premier. Et les politiques menées par le gouvernement n’arrangent rien !
- CNCD-11.11.11
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01 September 2022
En las últimas semanas, Venezuela ha recibido varios inversionistas de Uruguay, Argentina, Turquía e Irán que “quieren producir” alimentos en el territorio nacional.
Cuando en Indonesia o Malasia avanzaba la deforestación provocada por la palma de aceite, funcionarios federales y estatales de México hacían todo lo que podían para alentar la siembra de estas palmas nativas de áfrica en los alrededores de la Selva Lacandona.
Comunicado del Coordinador Nacional Agrario de Colombia a la opinión pública frente a las recientes declaraciones del gobierno nacional
The $3.4 billion pension fund of Sonoma County, California committed up to $125 million to Fiera Comox Global Agricultural Fund to complement its investment in UBS AgriVest Farmland Fund
- Pensions & Investments
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31 August 2022
Calgary-based Veripath has rapidly grown, operating on the conviction that global demand for agricultural products make farmland – particularly Canadian farmland a prime long-term investment.
The Zambian farming company, backed by Norfund and the World Bank's IFC, has been sold by South Africa's Zeder Investments to a group of businessmen.
- Food Business Africa
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30 August 2022