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Auscott sold to Canadian-backed Australian Food and Fibre
- Farm Online
- 17 May 2021
PSP, one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, now adds a further 40,000 hectares to its large farmland holdings in New South Wales.
France : L’accès au foncier agricole à l’Assemblée nationale
- NR Pyrénées
- 17 May 2021
Le nouveau dispositif prévoit de lutter contre la concentration excessive des exploitations et l’accaparement des terres agricoles, en contrôlant les cessions de parts de sociétés possédant ou exploitant du foncier agricole.
Who owns Australia?
- Guardian
- 16 May 2021
Complex web of data reveals large swathes of country controlled by small number of billionaires and large companies
Samuel Nguiffo tire les leçons des échecs de Neo Industry et Pac dans la Vallée du Ntem
- Investir au Cameroun
- 14 May 2021
Le 5 mai 2021, le Premier ministre a signé un décret annulant l’incorporation dans le domaine privé de l’État de plus de 66 000 hectares de terre dans le département de la Vallée du Ntem, dans la région du Sud du Cameroun.
Le Kazakhstan interdit ses terres arables aux étrangers sur fond de sentiment antichinois
- AFP
- 14 May 2021
Le président du Kazakhstan a promulgué jeudi une loi interdisant la vente de terres agricoles à des étrangers, sur fond de protestations dirigées contre les investissements de la Chine, pays voisin de cette ex-république soviétique d'Asie centrale.
Degazetting and granting of 60,000 ha of prime forest for oil palm production project in Ocean Division, South Region of Cameroon
- GDA
- 11 May 2021
Evaluating the biodiversity impact of the Camvert project on the Campo Ma’an technical operations unit
The global farmland grab goes green
- GRAIN
- 11 May 2021
Carbon credits and net-zero pledges are fuelling a new round of farmland buying by billionaires and pension funds that will undermine real climate action.
CDC Group commits $100 million to ETG, supporting the lives of farmers across Africa and Asia
- CDC Group
- 10 May 2021
CDC's commitment to company that operates on large swaths of farmland in Africa marks one of its largest corporate debt investments ever.
Ethiopie: inauguration d'un parc agro-industriel intégré réalisé à hauteur de 215 millions $
- Agence Ecofin
- 10 May 2021
Le parc agro-industriel intégré de Bulbula qui s’étend sur 271 hectares est « une démonstration de la vision de la prospérité du secteur agricole » portée par Addis-Abeba
Argentina: Hegemonía verde, fundaciones conservacionistas en el control del territorio
- El Cohete a la Luna
- 09 May 2021
Las fundaciones operan en enclaves estratégicos con valor medioambiental
Investors commit $159m to revolutionise Nigeria’s cassava, oil palm value chains
- National Accord
- 09 May 2021
Fayus Group says it has committed over $100 million along with other investors under the Edo State Oil Palm Program to establish 46,000 ha of oil palm plantations over the next five years.
RDC: La justice ouvre un dossier contre Augustin Matata Ponyo
- Politico.CD
- 06 May 2021
La justice congolaise a ouvert un dossier à charge contre le Sénateur Augustin Matata Ponyo pour sa gestion du parc agro-industriel de Bukanga Lonzo, apprend POLITICO.CD des sources exclusives.
UK supermarkets threaten Brazil boycott over Amazon deforestation
- Sky News
- 05 May 2021
An open letter to the Brazilian National Congress, led by supermarket chains including Tesco and Sainsbury's, urges them to reject a proposed "land grabbers law" to allow the private occupation of public land.
Brasil: Em carta ao Senado, bispos da Amazônia pedem a retirada de tramitação do PL da Grilagem
- CIMI
- 04 May 2021
A nota pública assinada por mais de 60 bispos da região afirma que medida terá maior impacto na Amazônia
Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river
- Mongabay
- 04 May 2021
Botum Sakor National Park in southern Cambodia has lost at least 30,000 ha of forest over the past three decades. Environmental degradation go back to the late 1990s when Cambodian government began handing out economic land concessions for commercial plantations and tourist infrastructure.