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Les terres agricoles ne sont plus «achetables»
- Le Soleil
- 23 November 2021
Au Québec, les terres agricoles ne sont plus «achetables» car il faut payer jusqu’à 25 000 dollars l’hectare, dans certains cas extrêmes
At a ‘certified’ palm oil plantation in Nigeria, soldiers and conflict over land
- Mongabay
- 22 November 2021
Certified by the RSPO in early 2020, Okomu’s motto is “responsible tropical agriculture.” But over the past decade, the company has been embroiled in disputes over land ownership and its use of Nigerian soldiers as a de facto security force for its plantations.
Mauritanie/Accaparement des terres: Ngawlé appelle la communauté internationale à intervenir
- Senalioune
- 22 November 2021
En Mauritanie, les habitants de la localité de Ngawlé, dans le sud du pays, ont protesté contre l’expropriation de leurs terres par le gouvernement mauritanien.
Ça a chauffé hier à Ngawlé : Des arrestations et des blessés après les manifestations réprimées
- Le Quotidien
- 22 November 2021
La grande superficie est exploitée par des Maures et mise en location à des Marocains pour l’agrobusiness.
Farmers in Niari to benefit from Agri Resources cold storage facility
- AMA
- 21 November 2021
The facility in the Republic of Congo will cover the requirements for the company’s production, as well as for local farmers wishing to partake in the Agri Resources Congo outsourcing programme.
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.