Paghimutad investigates the social and environmental costs of the controversial 6,000-hectare palm oil plantation owned by construction firm Consunji in Candoni town of Negros Occidental.
A large contingent of policemen, including elite force personnel, were sent to subdue peasants protesting for two days against the government’s decision to reallocate 528 acres of their “ancestral land” — cultivated by them for nearly a century — to a private company.
In a rare move, Australia’s largest agricultural landholder by value, the mammoth Canadian pension fund PSP, has listed a significant cropping aggregation in southern Queensland for sale.
Saudi Agricultural & Livestock Investment Co., controlled by the country’s sovereign wealth fund, is in advanced talks on a transaction that would value Olam Agri Holdings at about $4 billion.
SALIC aspires to expand co-operation and investment in the Vietnamese market, especially in the production, processing and export of rice, along with animal feed, poultry, livestock and aquaculture.
There is an increasing demand for nature-based solutions and real assets are of particular interest to institutional asset owners. But just because something is a natural investment does not always mean it is good for the environment. Or that it is a good investment.
Corte de Delaware firma acuerdo poniendo fin a una demanda colectiva de las comunidades campesinas del Valle del Aguán en Honduras, reconociendo la responsabilidad de la Corporación Dinan y de la Corporación Financiera Internacional (CFI, por violencia armada -que resultó en al menos 40 asesinatos - para realizar el historico acaparamiento para expandir sus operaciones de aceite de palma.
Ethiopia’s hopes of ushering in a new era of commercial farming ventures rested in large part on the shoulders of the Gambella Regional State. Recent years have seen hundreds of investors granted licenses and credit to establish commercial farms in the southwestern corner of the country, but little has come from the efforts.
The Nasarawa State Government has commenced the harvest of its 2,000 hectares rice farm in Jangwa village of Awe Local Government Area, as part of the 10,000 hectares initially earmarked for its food security programme
One of Arbonics' clients in Lithuania is INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II which has already planted around 200 hectares of mixed forest and 750,000 trees in total to earn carbon credits.
Le Syndicat des paysan.nes indonésien.nes (SPI) a organisé une action de masse au siège de la police nationale indonésienne et au bureau du groupe Wilmar à Jakarta pour condamner l’accaparement récent des terres, la répression ainsi que les actions unilatérales de PT Permata Hijau Pasaman I du groupe Wilmar, bénéficiant de la protection de la police
Suprema Corte do Brasil proíbe despejo de 48 famílias de assentamento no Mato Grosso por não haver infraestrutura básica para acolher as famílias. As empresas M2W Properties Holding Ltda. e Trust Agro Company Holding Ltda são acusados de falsificar documentos de propriedade, buscando maior margem de lucro em seus negócios de compra e venda de terras.
