The expansion of industrial agriculture in Brazil has been an international affair, linking pension funds, university endowments, and major financial actors across the world.
- Phenomenal World
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28 May 2022
Pengelolaan proyek Food Estate Bangun Bumi Papua akan diserahkan pada PT Alamindo Lestari Sejahtera Tbk yang memiliki lebih dari 500.000 hektar konsesi logging di lima kabupaten di Papua Barat.
- Pusaka Bentala Rakyat
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28 May 2022
It is clear that natural capital markets and wider investor interest in carbon offsetting and green agendas are driving market interest in Scottish land and in particular land values for plantable land
L’avant-projet de loi modifiant le régime foncier en RDC cherche à reconnaître les droits coutumiers "legitimes" des communautés locales tout en améliorant la sécurité juridique des "transactions" foncières sur les terres rurales
Conforzi Plantation Limited has unveiled plans to invest $10 million in a 5,000 hectare irrigation scheme under Public Private Partnership arrangement to grow high-value crops.
The INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II, which invests in forest and land in the Baltic Sea region and Central and Eastern EU countries, has completed a transaction to acquire 1184 hectares in Latvia through its subsidiary Zemvalde Forest SIA, including 635 ha of forest and the rest is agricultural and other land.
Interview with Devlin Kuyek, GRAIN and Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebaggala, Witness Radio Uganda
- Blended Finance Project
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26 May 2022
From Sierra Leone to Nigeria, through Cameroon, Guinea and Ivory Coast, communities living near the industrial palm oil and rubber plantations of Socfin/Bolloré are fighting for their rights and against repression.
De la Sierra Leone au Nigeria, en passant par le Cameroun, la Guinée et la Côte d'Ivoire, les communautés vivant à proximité des plantations industrielles d'huile de palme et de caoutchouc de Socfin/Bolloré se battent pour leurs droits et contre la répression.
The dismissal of a petition signed by 1,475 community members objecting to the certification of Socfin Agricultural Company by the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil is an attempt to silence and criminalize opposition to the operation of SOCFIN in Sierra Leone
- Green Scenery
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24 May 2022
Land for Life Initiative, a civil society organization that advocates land rights, has issued a press statement calling on government to intervene and settle the land dispute between members of the Malen Affected Land Owners Association (MALOA) and Socfin Agricultural Company (SAC).
- Concord Times
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24 May 2022
Les entreprises à l'origine du boom de l'huile de palme dans le pays ont vu leurs bénéfices s'envoler cette année, les prix mondiaux ayant atteint des niveaux record. Mais pour les Orang Rimba, l'attente de leur part de la fortune se poursuit.
Quelque 85 000 hectares de terres seront mis à la disposition d’investisseurs dans le domaine de l’agriculture structurelle stratégique, selon la radio algérienne
- Algérie Focus
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23 May 2022
Phatisa, together with a consortium of development finance institutions, has acquired a significant minority stake in South African-based fruit producer and exporter, Lona Group.
- Africa Global Funds
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23 May 2022
The companies that sell oil palm to major firms like Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg's and Mondelēz are depriving indigenous communities of potentially millions of dollars of income, a joint BBC investigation has found.