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Indigenous community evicted as land clashes over agribusiness rock Paraguay
- Guardian
- 21 November 2021
Police in riot gear tore down a community’s homes and ripped up crops, highlighting the country’s highly unequal land ownership
Malas prácticas agrícolas modifican las tierras de miskitos hondureños, dice experto italiano
- EFE Verde
- 20 November 2021
La paz en la región ha ido desapareciendo por muchas presiones, entre ellas el acaparamiento de tierras para cultivos agrícolas y ganadería por parte de terceros que no son de la Mosquitia.
Foreign farmland ownership in the United States
- CRS
- 18 November 2021
New CRS Report shows that foreigners own just under 3% of US farmland, led by Canada (accounting for 30% of foreign holdings), Netherlands (14%), Italy (7%), UK (6%) and Germany (2%).
An appraisal of promises after the ruins: The global land rush in Africa
- Afronomics Law
- 18 November 2021
Cochrane’s and Andrews’ The Transnational Land Rush in Africa: A Decade After the Spike provides a timely and necessary update of the land rush “a decade after the 2007/08 commodity price spike.”
Calling for a rights-based response to environmental degradation in Madagascar
- Relief Web
- 17 November 2021
"Madagascar's development policies are focused on the promotion of the extractive and agro-industrial sectors which lead to a recurrent land grabbing issue,” says CRAAD-OI
Interview with Maria Luisa Mendonça
- Free City Radio
- 17 November 2021
Listen to an interview with Maria Luisa Mendonça of Rede Social on US teachers' pension fund TIAA investments in Brazil land grabbing and deforestation.
Govt open to proposal to develop idle land to drive Malaysia’s economy, says deputy minister
- Bernama
- 17 November 2021
The government of Malaysia is open to lease idle land - owned land, government land or reserve land - to the private sector to generate economic activities.
The global land rush, revisited
- Afronomics Law
- 17 November 2021
The global land rush has highlighted deep-seated tensions between competing visions of agriculture, food systems, territory and society.
A giant investment firm paid a university to study one of its biggest assets — farmland
- Illinois Newsroom
- 16 November 2021
In 2013, mammoth US investment company TIAA-CREF gave $5 million to the University of Illinois to fund a research center, branded with the company’s name, that would explore the financial niche of farmland investment.
Leading agriculture company from UAE eyes investment in Guyana
- Newsroom Guyana
- 15 November 2021
Emirati giant Elite Agro LLC is looking for opportunities to invest in specific commodities in the agriculture sector that can be produced in Guyana on a large scale.
UAE’s investor advances interest in Guyana
- Petroleum World
- 15 November 2021
Elite Agro, which farms tens of thousands of hectares in various parts of the world, may invest in the large-scale production of corn and soybean in Guyana, as well as seafood
La marchandisation et la privatisation de la nature progressent en Amérique latine
- A l'encontre
- 15 November 2021
Entretien avec Karin Nansen, membre des Amis de la Terre International et de REDES-Amis de la Terre Uruguay
Palm oil land grabs ‘trashing’ environment and displacing people
- The Guardian
- 15 November 2021
Growing rush for land is destroying ecosystems and disrupting lives to satisfy global demand for goods, study warns
Promotion de l’agro-écologie: La 3e caravane de sensibilisation attendue dans 5 pays de la Cedeao, du 20 Novembre au 11 décembre
- Fraternité Matin
- 14 November 2021
La troisième caravane sous régionale de sensibilisation, d’interpellation et de mobilisation des populations et gouvernants des Etats de l’espace Cedeao, sur l’agro-écologie et la gouvernance foncière inclusive, démarre dans les prochains jours.
NLC blow as court stops Yala Swamp land allocation to Lake Agro Limited
- The Star
- 14 November 2021
The High Court in Siaya, Kenya, has suspended the intended allocation of Yala Swamp land by the National Land Commission to Lake Agro Limited. “The land under Yala Swamp is yet to be registered as community land so that community around the area are allocated their share,” petitioners say.