• Proyek lumbung pangan UEA di Kalteng terkendala, menteri LHK turun tangan
    • Warta Ekonomi
    • 28 September 2020

    Elite Agro LLC, perusahaan sektor pertanian asal Uni Emirat Arab (UEA), mulai menjajaki kerja sama bidang pertanian food estate atau lumbung pangan di Kalimantan Tengah dengan luas lahan 100 ribu hektare.

  • Sénégal – Occupation anarchique et accaparement des terres : Les Niayes étouffent
    • Le Quotidien
    • 28 September 2020

    L’occupation anarchique et l’accaparement des terres dans les Niayes, une zone agricole hautement stratégique dans le développement de l’activité maraîchère et horticole du Sénégal, inquiète Enda Pronat, qui a lancé hier à Keur Moussa, la troisième phase du projet de sécurisation du patrimoine foncier.

  • Think tank decries global push to privatise land
    • Ceylon Today
    • 28 September 2020

    One of the ugliest features of the modern world is the exploitation of natural resources for private gain. Governments and corporations are eager to convert smallholder farms, grasslands, and forests into monoculture plantations, cattle ranches, and mines. But this only contributes to climate change, environmental degradation, displacement, loss of income and poverty

  • La Synaparcam saisit Nestlé Cameroun pour faire pression sur Socapalm
    • Biocamer.net
    • 26 September 2020

    Des représentants des populations locales ont saisi le groupe Nestlé pour l’inciter à attirer l’attention de son fournisseur Socapalm (groupe SOCFIN) sur le respect des droits des communautés, ceux relatifs au volet environnemental et social, notamment.

  • Digital fences: the financial enclosure of farmlands in South America
    • grain.org
    • 25 September 2020

    A real financialisation of land, natural resources and the agri-food system is underway throughout South America. In the context of the multiple global crises, the pressure on the control of land and other resources of interest has increased considerably, either for productive use or as financial assets. To this end, the digitisation of land governance and the georeferencing technology that supports it are serving to disguise a massive digital land grab.

  • Cercas digitais: cercamento financeiro das terras agrícolas na América do Sul
    • grain.org
    • 25 September 2020

    No contexto das múltiplas crises globais, a pressão sobre o controle da terra e outros recursos de interesse, como a água, nas zonas de fronteira agrícola aumentou consideravelmente, seja para utilização produtiva ou como ativos financeiros. Para este fim, a digitalização da governação da terra e a tecnologia de georreferenciamento que a apoia estão servindo para dissimular uma massiva grilagem digital das terras.

  • Cercas digitales: cercamiento financiero de las tierras agrícolas en América del Sur
    • grain.org
    • 25 September 2020

    La tecnología de georreferenciación, y la información geoespacial que trasmite, se han convertido en el principal criterio de acceso a un certificado catastral y al título de propiedad en el proceso de regularización de la tierra, lo que facilita la legalización del histórico e ilegal acaparamiento de tierras públicas, incluso a favor de extranjeros.

  • Investors turn to ag sector
    • Farm Weekly
    • 25 September 2020

    Agricultural investors say the COVID-19 crisis has had little impact on their business and investment intentions, with Australian agricultural land, water and business assets as appealing as ever to investors.

  • Spoliation des communautés locales : la Synaparcam charge la Socapalm chez Tractafric Motors Cameroun
    • Ndengue
    • 24 September 2020

    Dans une correspondance adressée aux clients et fournisseurs de l’entreprise le 21 septembre 2020, l’association dénonce les pratiques inhumaines de la filiale de Socfin sur les communautés locales.

  • Palm-producing company Poligrow plans to grab more land under the “small producers” scheme
    • WRM
    • 24 September 2020

    Palm-producing company Poligrow has an undeniable role in land-grabbing and intimidation in the municipality of Mapiripán, Colombia. Even so, it plans to expand its operations.

  • Development banks must be held accountable for their disastrous oil palm plantation investments in the Congo
    • GRAIN
    • 24 September 2020

    The Feronia case, and other development bank investment failures, shows that there is a need to overhaul development finance institutions practices and to consider whether it might be better to just shut them down entirely.

  • Palm oil labour abuses linkeds to the world's top brands, banks
    • AP
    • 24 September 2020

    An Associated Press investigation found poor conditions of millions of laborers from some of the poorest corners of Asia across palm oil plantation in Malaysia and Indonesia, many of them enduring various forms of exploitation, with the most serious abuses including child labor, outright slavery and allegations of rape.

  • Colombia: El despojo de tierras al pueblo negro de La Larga y Tumaradó llega a la JEP
    • El Espectador
    • 24 September 2020

    En el papel, la comunidad afro de ese consejo comunitario es dueña de 107 mil hectáreas de tierra en el Bajo Atrato (Chocó). En la práctica, el 95% de las tierras productivas están en manos de una decena de empresarios que las adquirieron en medio de la arremetida paramilitar a la región.

  • Indonesia starts developing controversial food estate project
    • Reuters
    • 23 September 2020

    Indonesia has started developing a food estate to grow rice, corn and other crops. The project is expected to cover an area of 770,000 hectares (1,903,000 acres), or more than ten times the size of Singapore.

  • Les défis de faire la plus grande palmeraie du Cameroun
    • Actu Cameroun
    • 23 September 2020

    Avec une plantation sur 50 000 ha à Campo et Niete, la société anonyme Cameroun Vert (Camvert) cherche à conquérir le cœur des populations riveraines

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