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“Find, fix and finish him”
- The Point
- 07 September 2021
Nigerian grassroots defender Ajele Sunday wanted dead for helping communities fight for their land against SOCFIN's subsidiary, Okomu Oil Palm Plantation in Edo State.
New Forests, AIMCo to buy Australian farmland from Macquarie
- IPE
- 06 September 2021
New Forests and Alberta Investment Management Corporation have agreed to buy Lawson Grains, which owns a 90,500 hectare agricultural land estate across New South Wales and Western Australia.
Macquarie Agriculture’s Lawson Grains sells to foreigners
- Weekly TImes
- 06 September 2021
Australia’s second-biggest farmland investor has sold its Lawson Grains portfolio comprising 105,000 hectares of crop land in NSW and Western Australia to Sydney-based global forestry investment manager New Forests and Canada’s Alberta Investment Management Corporation.
Brasil. Exterminador do futuro: Estrondo inicia desmatamento gigante no Cerrado
- IHU
- 03 September 2021
Grupo agrícola, que responde na justiça por apropriação indevida de terras, recebeu uma permissão irregular para desmatar uma área de Cerrado nativo maior que a cidade do Recife.
Argentina: Somos Monte denuncia destrucción de bosque y acaparamiento de tierras en Chaco
- Momarandú
- 02 September 2021
El grupo ambientalista Somos Monte denunció destrucción de bosque nativo y acaparamiento de tierras en el Paraje La Fidelidad, localidad de Misión Nueva Pompeya, departamento General Güemes, provincia de Chaco.
Le congrès mondial de la nature alternatif s'organise autour de l'approche "décoloniale" pour conserver la biodiversité
- Ladepeche.fr
- 01 September 2021
Les solutions fondées sur la nature détournent l'attention des vraies causes de la crise climatique et de la perte de la biodiversité - exploitation croissante et à but lucratif des ressources - et qui mènent à l'accaparement des terres des peuples autochtones
Panen melimpah, pemerintah bakal tambah 2000 hektare lahan di food estate Humbahas Sumut
- IDX Channel
- 01 September 2021
Sekitar 2.000 hektare lahan tanam akan ditambah di Food Estate (FE) di Kabupaten Humbang Hasundutan (Humbahas), Sumatera Utara.
Selangor sultan owned Kuala Langat land grab company
- Sarawak Report
- 01 September 2021
Research by Sarawak Report has revealed unreported ownership by the Sultan of Selangor of a key company behind the state’s hugely controversial decision to de-gazette a swathe of protected forest at Kuala Langat.
Malaysia’s pilgrimage fund weighs taking palm oil firm private
- Bloomberg
- 01 September 2021
Malaysia’s pilgrimage fund is considering taking its agricultural firm TH Plantations Bhd. private, people with knowledge of the matter said, amid a rally in palm oil prices.
Amaryllias Farmland - India's first tech-based online platform for managed farmland ownership and portfolio diversification
- ANI
- 01 September 2021
Amaryllias Farmland is a new tech-based online platform which allows one to have ownership of managed farmland from anywhere in India and also monitor its operations remotely.
Senate Labour committee chair suspects malice in death of LAC employee who was minced by rubber processing machine
- FrontPageAfrica
- 01 September 2021
The Chairman of the Senate’s Labour Committee says that preliminary investigation into the incident that led to the death of an employee at SOCFIN's Liberia Agriculture Company has semblance of malice and negligence.
Group gets nod to invest $14.2m in Ekiti’s agro-allied industry
- The Guardian
- 31 August 2021
Exxess Group will invest US$14.2 million in large scale cassava farming and processing on 3,600 hectares of farmland in Ekiti state, Southwest Nigeria.
Protestan en Honduras contra la cesión de territorios a inversionistas
- Avispa
- 31 August 2021
Este lunes (30), miles de personas se movilizaron en múltiples ciudades de Honduras para exigir la cancelación de la Ley Orgánica de las Zonas de Empleo y Desarrollo Económico, eje rector del conocido como proyecto ZEDE o Ciudades Modelo.
Au Liberia, le gouvernement ferme l’usine de caoutchouc LAC
- Commodafrica
- 30 August 2021
Suite à un accident travail survenu à l’usine de caoutchouc de la Liberian Agricultural Company, du groupe SOCFIN, qui a entrainé la mort d’un employé, le gouvernement a ordonné que l’usine reste fermée jusqu'à ce que toutes les mesures de sécurité mises en place soient évaluées par des techniciens indépendants.
AfCFTA: Nasarawa Marks 270,000 Hectres for Commercial Agriculture
- This Day
- 30 August 2021
Dangote Group has taken 70,000 ha, Flour Mills of Nigeria has 20,000, Olam Farm has 9,000 and Azman has 14,000, so from our target of 270,000 hectres, we have given out nearly a 100,000 already, says state Attorney General