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Combat pour la terre
- Synaparcam
- 13 August 2022
Vidéo produite par la Synaparcam sur les injustices de la Socapalm, filiale du groupe Socfin/Bolloré
Agricultiva, Mitrelli Group’s agriculture subsidiary, to launch Ground-breaking AGROPOLE WEST Project in Senegal
- Panafrican Visions
- 10 August 2022
The project aims to develop local agriculture and agroindustry in the area and provide greater agricultural employment utilizing Israeli agricultural models which can be replicated in other regions and countries.
Déclaration de l’Alliance Informelle contre les Plantations Industrielles en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre
- Plusieurs
- 09 August 2022
En Mai 2022, des riverains, activistes, et défendeurs des terres et des droits humains venant de l’Afrique de l’Ouest et de l’Afrique Centrale se sont réunis à Aboisso en Côte d’ivoire pour lutter contre les monocultures industrielles.
Declaration of the Informal Alliance against Industrial Plantations in West and Central Africa
- Various
- 09 August 2022
In May 2022, community members, activists, and land and human rights defenders from West and Central Africa gathered in Aboisso, Côte d'Ivoire for a meeting of an informal alliance formed to fight against industrial monocultures.
New laws of the land: Sierra Leone reshapes environmental battleground
- NYT
- 09 August 2022
The West African nation will let communities veto mining, farming and industrial projects. Activists say the legislation is a progressive landmark. At least one investor calls it unworkable.
Cameroun/Revendications : à Mbonjo, la population déterminée à déraciner la Socapalm
- Ndengue
- 05 August 2022
Le 1er août 2022, les habitants du village Mbonjo, à l’initiative de la Synergie nationale des paysans et riverains du Cameroun (Synapacam), se sont mobilisés pour contester l’occupation de leurs sites sacrés.
Huge foreign farmland investor fee hike stirs Labor agenda unease
- Farm Online
- 04 August 2022
Foreign investors in Australian rural property now pay up to $1 million in fees when applying to buy farmland or commercial agribusiness assets.
Brazil’s FIAGRO promotes agribusiness: key points about this new form of investment
- DLA Piper
- 04 August 2022
Federal Law n° 14,130/2021: Investment Funds in Agro-industrial Production Chains allows foreign investors to participate in the land market without having property or domain over rural lands.
International Finance Corporation should stop bankrolling destructive agribusiness
- Food Tank
- 03 August 2022
The World Bank’s private sector arm approved a US$200M loan to agribusiness giant Louis Dreyfus Company under the guise of “sustainable development.
Aware Super sells Lake Boga farming portfolio to goFARM for approximately AU$30M
- GAI
- 02 August 2022
Comprising 38 organic, traditional, horticultural, and broadacre cropping farms, the Lake Boga assets are situated between Lake Boga and Kerang in northern Victoria.
Should Maui County take over water long controlled by private companies?
- Civil Beat
- 01 August 2022
Voters will decide whether to create a new government entity to take back control of water held by one of Hawaii’s most powerful agribusiness corporations and a Canadian pension fund.
Major investor challenges Sierra Leone’s landmark land bill
- Politico SL
- 29 July 2022
An official of the giant oil palm company, Socfin, says the new Customary Land Rights Bill which is before Parliament, will make foreign investment in agriculture totally impossible when it becomes fully operational.
Karuturi fails in bid to stop piecemeal sale of its assets
- Nation
- 26 July 2022
Stanbic Bank has received the nod to proceed with a piecemeal auction of assets of one of Kenya’s largest flower farms, Karuturi Limited to recover a Sh1.6 billion debt.
OPEC Fund signs off on $30m loan to Paraguay’s Banco Sudameris
- Gulf Business
- 26 July 2022
OPEC Fund for International Development has signed a $30m loan agreement under its Food Security Action Plan with Banco Sudameris with 40 percent to be allocated to farmers and agribusinesses in Paraguay.
Noumi dairy farm shares now worth $30m as New Hope confirms bid
- North Queensland Registry
- 25 July 2022
Chinese agribusiness giant, New Hope Group, has moved to buy itself a comfortable majority share of the big Australian Fresh Milk Holdings dairy farming business.