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Le groupe de plantation belge Socfin condamné à une amende en France
- De Tijd
- 30 September 2023
Un tribunal français a condamné le groupe de plantation belgo-luxembourgeois Socfin à une amende de 140 000 euros et à une astreinte.
Bolloré blacklisted over alleged rights violations on plantations in Africa and Asia
- Mongabay
- 29 September 2023
French logistics giant Bolloré SE has been deemed an unethical investment by some of Switzerland’s most powerful pension funds.
Salala Rubber Corporation’s woe deepens; parent’s company blacklisted for ‘land grab’ in Liberia
- Liberian Observer
- 28 September 2023
Local communities near Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) in Margibi County are seemingly winning a case of ‘land grab’ and ‘gross human rights violations’ brought against SRC; as its parent company, Bollore Group has been blacklisted by Switzerland’s largest public pension funds.
La Synaparcam toujours opposée aux intérêts de la Socapalm
- Financier d'Afrique
- 28 September 2023
Pour cette organisation composée d’agriculteurs et planteurs des villages où sont situées les plantations de la filiale de Socfin au Cameroun, il faut sensibiliser les riverains sur la nécessité de préserver leur territoire.
Colombia está en mora de regular la extranjerización de la tierra y equipararse a otras naciones que lo han hecho
- Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural
- 27 September 2023
Colombia está demorada en tener un marco regulatorio estatal de la extranjerización y acaparamiento de tierras, indicó la ministra de Agricultura, Jhenifer Mojica
Years-long mediation leaves Bunong farmers indebted to multinational rubber firm
- CamboJa News
- 27 September 2023
More than a decade after subsidiaries of multinational rubber firm Socfin Group forcibly cleared and seized the farms, burial grounds and sacred forests of Bunong indigenous communities in Mondulkiri province, Cambodia, the company now seeks to collect tens of thousands of dollars from these farmers for the cost of “land preparation” and other fees.
Projet de loi 495 - Québec solidaire veut s'attaquer à l'accaparement des terres agricoles
- Presse-toi à gauche
- 26 September 2023
La députée de Verdun et responsable de Québec solidaire en matière d’Agriculture a présenté le projet de loi 495 afin de lutter contre l’accaparement des terres agricoles et mieux protéger la relève agricole.
Call for papers - Global land grabbing conference
- LDPI
- 25 September 2023
On its 10th anniversary, the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) is collaborating with several leading research hubs in organizing an International Conference on Global Land Grabbing on 19-21 March 2024 in Bogota, Colombia.
Pakistan army trades tanks for tractors in food-security push
- Nikkei
- 24 September 2023
Pakistan's army is taking over vast swaths of government-owned land to grow food but the moves are fanning concerns about the powerful military's pervasive presence in a country facing economic collapse.
10 years after land grab, local Nigerian farmers continue fight against palm oil producer
- Mongabay
- 22 September 2023
A decade after transnational palm oil company Wilmar took control of a derelict oil palm plantation, local residents continue to fight for the farmlands, forests and rivers they use.
Paine Schwartz wins over Costa board with cut-price $1.5b offer
- AFR
- 22 September 2023
The board of Australia’s largest fruit and vegetable company, Costa Group, has agreed to a cut-price $1.5 billion takeover offer from a consortium headed by private equity firm Paine Schwartz Partners.
Pakistan seeks $6bn for corporate farming from Saudi Arabia, other Gulf nations by 2028
- Arab News
- 22 September 2023
Arab News speaks exclusively to CEO of FonGrow, spearheading agriculture projects under new investment body, who says Pakistan is in talks with Saudi companies like Al-Dahara, Saleh and Al-Khorayef for investment in corporate farming.