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TLG fundraising in Uruguay to buyout and expand portfolio
- GAI
- 02 Mar 2022
TLG manages 20,000 hectares of farmland in Uruguay producing beef, soybeans, rice, and timber on behalf of European pension funds, insurance companies and family offices.
Australia: Investors pile in for a stake in our biggest beef company
- Queensland Country Life
- 02 Mar 2022
US-based Washington State Investment Board has committed another $A350 million to Queensland-based farm investor Laguna Bay Pastoral Company.
Forest clearing for crop program in Papua may unleash massive emissions
- Mongabay
- 02 Mar 2022
An area nearly the size of Belgium will be cleared in Indonesia’s Papua province to grow food crops under a government program. A new analysis shows that this conversion alone could result in the release of 616 million metric tons of greenhouse gases — a third of what Indonesia as a whole currently emits in a year.
African oil palm expansion slows, reputation risks remain for FMCGs
- CRR
- 02 Mar 2022
The handful of companies that control industrial palm oil production in West and Central Africa have been linked to numerous social and environmental impacts, violating their buyers’ NDPE commitments.
Madagascar : fortes inquiétudes autour de la nouvelle loi foncière
- Foncier & développement
- 02 Mar 2022
Lors de sa dernière réunion du 10 novembre, les experts du Comité ont échangé sur les évolutions législatives récentes à Madagascar et fait part de leurs préoccupations par rapport à l’adoption probable de la loi 2021-06.
France : l'accaparement des terres, une pratique silencieuse qui transforme l'agriculture
- TV5Monde
- 01 Mar 2022
Dans "Hold-up sur la terre", la journaliste et auteure, Lucile Leclair, parle d'une pratique silencieuse, mais puissante, qui transforme radicalement l’agriculture française : l’accaparement des terres.
Benue farm burning: Obasanjo to continue with agricultural investments
- Pulse
- 28 February 2022
Hoodlums set ablaze the farmland in Howe, a Gwer local government area in Benue state, Nigeria over probable land indemnity disputes with the natives regarding lands originally owned by the state government.
Pakistan’s Fatima Group seals $1bn industrial deals with Saudi, Chinese companies
- Arab News
- 28 February 2022
The collaboration with Sarh Attaqnia Co and CMEC aims to unlock untapped land resources of Pakistan by bringing fallow lands under cultivation through the Corporate Agriculture Farming initiative.
Les banques de développement se retirent sans vergogne d’un accaparement colonial des terres au Congo
- Collective statement
- 28 February 2022
Trente organisations demandent aux gouvernements responsables de la supervision des banques de développement de prendre des mesures pour réparer les préjudices causés aux communautés par leur investissement dans PHC/Feronia.
Development banks make shameless exit from a colonial land grab in the Congo
- Collective statement
- 28 February 2022
Thirty CSOs call on the governments responsible for overseeing the development banks to take action to redress the harms caused to the communities from their investment oil palm plantation company PHC/Feronia.
Argentina: los patrones de Corrientes
- Sudestada
- 26 February 2022
El desastre ambiental que provocan los incendios es inseparable de las explotaciones económicas que se llevan a cabo en esa provincia. Concentración de tierras y el peso de los extranjeros. Las movidas de Sigman, Soros, Grupo Clarín y la Universidad de Harvard.
Congolese businessman, Katumbi, embraces agriculture
- Africa News
- 26 February 2022
DRC businessman and party leader Moïse Katumbi has invested in 15 thousand hectares of maize fields, a staple food of the Congolese people.