La RSPO a reconnu les infractions commises par Socapalm dans le cadre de ses activités, à la suite des dénonciations faites par des médias étrangers en 2020 et en 2021, mais lui a tout de même délivré des certifications pour nombre de ses plantations, au grand dam des Ong nationales et internationales qui exigent leur annulation.
- Ecomatin
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19 September 2022
Cette étude vise à comprendre comment les questions foncières se déclinent dans le cadre de l’établissement, le développement et l’expansion de ZES
Elite Agro of UAE starts aquiring land for tea production and processing in Uganda
- TND News
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16 September 2022
Le Parlement européen a voté un projet de règlement contre la déforestation importée qui interdirait à des groupes comme Casino de vendre des produits issus de l'accaparement des terres, selon Marie Toussaint
- Reporterre
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14 September 2022
The law seeks to impose supply chain due diligence obligations on companies that import and trade forest risk commodities, such as cattle, soy and wood.
- Earthsight
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14 September 2022
Intl Farming Investment Management is seeking to raise £200m as it lists a US farmland investment trust on the London Stock Exchange
Industrial palm oil production in West and Central Africa is mainly controlled by five multinational corporations, and could continue expansion. Plantations take up large tracts of land and water. The current water crisis in these territories would not exist if corporations had not grabbed the land from communities.
There is no other crop that has grown faster globally in the last decade than palm oil. This almost uncontrollable expansion leaves a deep trail of destruction and conflicts around it. As companies take over more community land, they also grab the water sources from them.
The impact on water availability for communities that live in and around industrial oil palm plantations is systematic and dramatic.
As companies take over more community land, they also grab the water sources from them.
Morocco is seeking investors for a $213 million agriculture project in Western Sahara that will establish farms on 5,200 ha for growing fruit, vegetables and animal feed.
- Arab Weekly
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10 September 2022
As foreign agribusinesses take over Kiryandongo communities’ fertile land, other local investors are also eyeing the remaining land occupied by the poor families in the southwestern district of Uganda to grab their land.
- Witness Radio
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09 September 2022
Fresh controversy has emerged over the leading certification scheme for sustainable palm oil after a verification mission exposed ongoing issues around certified oil palm plantations in Cameroon.
- Mongabay
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09 September 2022
A tycoon once named one of Indonesia’s richest has gone on trial for alleged corruption estimated to have cost the state the equivalent of US$5.25 billion and caused major environmental damage from the destruction of vast amounts of virgin forest for oil palm plantations.
- Asia Sentinel
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09 September 2022
Canada's National Farmers Union applauds the efforts by two provincial members of parliament tabled in their respective provincial legislatures this spring and attempt to curb farmland grabbing by powerful financial actors.