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Smurfit Kappa Colombia: vete del Cauca
- SumOfUs
- 29 November 2021
Smurfit Kappa, el mayor acaparador de tierras del departamento del Cauca, se está lucrando a base de la destrucción de las tierras ancestrales del pueblo indígena Misak.
Madagascar : fortes inquiétudes autour de la nouvelle loi foncière
- Foncier et développement
- 29 November 2021
D’après le Comité technique français «Foncier et Développement», la nouvelle loi pourrait avoir des conséquences bien plus graves en pertes de terres par les familles malgaches que l’impact qu’aurait pu avoir le projet Daewoo en 2009.
Farmer investment group fights to save family farms as big corporations buy Tasmanian land
- ABC
- 27 November 2021
Increased foreign ownership and corporatisation of agriculture makes farm ownership challenging for young families in Australia
Fighting agrocolonialism in the Congo
- Cartoon movement
- 26 November 2021
This comic is based on field research conducted around the Feronia palm oil plantation in Tshopo province in north-east DR Congo as part of a British-Academy funded project on “environmental defenders and atmospheres of violence” hosted by the University of Sussex.
Agricultural productivity as performance: A tale of two Mozambican corridors
- The Elephant
- 26 November 2021
In order to attract capital, selected regions for development projects must dramatize their potential as places for investment, carefully selecting project locations and participants who will make compromises so as to conceal failure, virtually guaranteeing that the programme will be declared a success when the time comes for evaluation.
Qui sont les 300 plus riches de Suisse?
- Bilan
- 25 November 2021
Le Belge Hubert Fabri, qui contrôle la Société financière des caoutchoucs (Socfin) et réside à Fribourg, figure au rang 204.
Brasil: A boiada está passando: desmatar para grilar
- Agro e Fogo
- 25 November 2021
Ao contrário do uso tradicional, o uso do fogo na cadeia da grilagem-agronegócio ocorre em grandes extensões de terra e está, direta ou indiretamente, associado ao desmatamento que acompanha a expansão da fronteira agrícola.
Milltrust Agricultural Investments acquired by Future Planet Capital
- GAI
- 24 November 2021
Milltrust Agricultural Investments, which owns farmlands in Australia and New Zealand, has been acquired by UK-based Future Planet Capital.
Prix Front Line Defenders 2021 pour les Défenseur-ses des Droits Humains en Danger
- Front Line Defenders
- 24 November 2021
Le lauréat pour l'Afrique est Aminata Fabba, présidente de la Malen Affected Land Owners Association, paysanne et défenseuse du droit à la terre dans le district provincial de Pujehun. MALOA est un mouvement communautaire qui résiste à la SOCFIN et à d’autres entreprises de biocarburant en Sierra Leone.
2021 Front Line Defenders award for human rights defenders at risk
- Front Line Defenders
- 24 November 2021
The 2021 Front Line Defenders Award Laureates include Aminata Fabba, Chair of the Malen Affected Land Owners Association (MALOA), a farmer and a grassroots land rights defender resisting SOCFIN and other companies in Sierra Leone.
How your 401(k) is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest
- Intercept
- 23 November 2021
The growing financialisation of Brazilian agribusiness is enabling foreign investment in the industry most responsible for deforestation - and land grabbing
Global commodity traders are fuelling land conflicts in Brazil’s Cerrado
- Global Witness
- 23 November 2021
ADM, Bunge and Cargill are dealing in conflict-tainted soy sourced from producers in the Cerrado, and in doing so are contributing to land conflict and alleged human rights abuses, in violation of their responsibilities under UN and OECD human rights standards.
Chinese-owned banana plantations fueling exploitation in Myanmar
- The Irrawaddy
- 23 November 2021
Landowners leasing their land to Chinese-run plantations are aware of the many drawbacks associated with banana farming, but still rent out their land, or are sometimes deceived into doing so, because of the limited market for traditional crops as well as the high rents they receive.
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.