Romanian private equity company Roca Investments, part of Impetum Group, teamed up with RDF - a farming group developed by Romanian businessmen - to form an investment holding company.
- Romania Insider
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14 July 2022
The most effective means of countering corporate power is to restore control of the land and agricultural knowledge to the communities who live on and with the land.
- Agrarian Trust
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13 July 2022
Where village land is formalized to establish wildlife management areas or a large-scale agricultural investment, the interests of powerful actors are often prioritized over those of local communities.
- Andalou Agency
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13 July 2022
Company owned by the US-based Legacy Group acquires 1,389 acres of farmland to bring its total landholdings in Colombia to 6,372 acres, with a total coffee tree count of 7.2 million.
The undertaking will be carried out alongside PSP Investments’ local operating partners on more than 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of farmland and timberland.
Mennonites are linked to expanding farmland acquisition and deforestation - not always with the right paperwork - in the Yucatan Peninsula
An Iranian official says that Venezuela has agreed to provide one million hectares of agricultural land for Iran’s overseas cultivation projects to secure food.
- Iran International
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10 July 2022
Uno de los principales riesgos de fraude en la Política Agrćiola Commún es el problema del acaparamiento ilegal de tierras, que implica la concentración de tierras agrícolas y subsidios de la PAC en manos de grandes empresas e inversores, especialmente en áreas montañosas y estados miembros de Europa del Este.
- Agroinformación
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10 July 2022
En los últimos 10 años se desarrolló un fuerte acaparamiento de tierras para soja transgénica, maíz transgénico y trigo, a los que se suman nuevos rubros del agronegocio: plantaciones de arroz y monocultivos de eucalipto.
Some community members accuse Socfin of land-grabbing and pollution. We visited the company’s plantation in Malen to find out what’s happening beneath the palm fronds.
- China Dialogue
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08 July 2022
AIDESEP calls on Ocho Sur's international buyers to reiterate that they have an obligation to exercise due diligence before purchasing palm oil from this company.
BIO, la banque belge de développement, finance une multinationale accusée d’accaparer des terres aux dépens des paysan∙nes.
- Entraide et Fraternité
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07 July 2022
On se croirait en train de suivre un film d’horreur. Le dimanche 26 juin 2022, une équipe des gardes industriels, G4S et la police est descendus à la division Bolembo où elle constante qu’une quantité de régimes et fruits de tâches de noix furent déplacés.
The Brazilian government has approved the registration of more than 250,000 hectares (620,000 acres) of farms since April 2020 within Indigenous reserves that are still undergoing the demarcation process.
The company is currently scaling up sugar cane planting with the target to reach about 3000 hectares of cane harvest by January 2025, of the 78,000 hectares of land acquired by Dangote Industries Limited.