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UAE-based agtech to raise at least $100mln by year-end – report
- Zawya
- 24 September 2024
Pure Farms operates greenhouse-based farms in the UAE and Saudi Arabia and will use the fundraising for the construction of a new farm in Morocco
The UK Government and Dutch development bank FMO commit $55 million to BTG Pactual TIG’s Latin American reforestation strategy
- Business Wire
- 24 September 2024
The investment with the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG) - one of the world's largest timberland investment management organizations - focuses on the conservation, restoration, and planting of deforested and degraded properties.
Industrial plantations: stop endangering local farmers, Indigenous knowledge, and food system models – land-grab victims
- Witness Radio
- 24 September 2024
Emotions, tears, and testimonies exposing the dark side of industrial agriculture rocked activities to mark the International Day of Struggle against industrial plantations 2024 celebrations in Uganda.
Conflit foncier Socapalm-Apouh : ce que réclament les communautés villageoises
- Haurizon News
- 23 September 2024
Les contestations ont de nouveau repris ce matin sur les plantations querellées de la Société camerounaise de palmeraies (Socapalm) d’Édéa situées au village Apouh, au Cameroun
Cameroun / Litige foncier : situation loin d’être terminée à Apouh a Ngog
- Haurizon News
- 23 September 2024
Le différend avec la Société camerounaise de palmeraies se poursuit ce lundi.
Las tierras de cultivo aragonesas, un nuevo manjar para los fondos de inversión
- Heraldo
- 22 September 2024
Los grandes capitales han vuelto su mirada en las tierras de cultivo de Aragón, que, según advierte UAGA-COAG, es el nuevo banco de pruebas de la uberización del campo.
Corporations plunder US West’s water amid worst drought in 1,200 years
- Truthout
- 22 September 2024
Profiteering companies are lining up to buy water rights in the western US as the water supply dwindles.
Hi-tech banana farming bears fruit in rural district of Binh Duong
- VOV
- 22 September 2024
Vietnam Rubber Group plans to invest in large-scale and high-value agriculture until the end of 2030, covering an area of 36,227ha, including 5,000ha dedicated to banana cultivation.
21 septembre : Les riveraines brisent le silence !
- RADD
- 21 September 2024
Le 21 septembre, tous les défenseurs des droits des communautés vivant autour des grandes plantations de monoculture, et en particulier les riveraines victimes, marquent systématiquement un temps d’arrêt.
El Meniaa : Un projet qatari dans l’agriculture stratégique à Hassi El F’hel
- La Patrie
- 21 September 2024
El Rayane, une société de promotion immobilière du Qatar en Algérie, a bénéficié d'une concession agricole dans la wilaya d’El Meniaa
World’s biggest deforestation project gets underway in Papua for sugarcane
- Mongabay
- 19 September 2024
A total of 2 million hectares of forests, wetlands and grasslands in Merauke, Papua province will be razed to make way for a cluster of giant sugarcane plantations. Five consortiums, consisting of Indonesian and foreign companies, are confirmed to be participating in the 130 trillion rupiah ($8.4 billion) project.
Google buys carbon removal credits from Brazil startup, joining Microsoft
- Reuters
- 19 September 2024
Google will buy 50,000 metric tons of carbon removal credits by 2030 from Mombak, which purchases degraded land from farmers and ranchers or partners with them to replant native species in the Amazon rainforest