The Triunfo de la Cruz region has been embroiled in a struggle to save their ancestral land from developers, palm oil pagmnates and drug traffickers
- The Guardian
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23 July 2020
Un presunto representante de la empresa Bimbo de Yucatán y de dos maquiladoras textileras desconocidas visitó nuestra comunidad para tener un acercamiento con los ejidatarios y ejidatarias con el propósito es comprar 2078 hectáreas de tierras ejidales de uso común.
- Maya Politikon
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23 July 2020
Elite Agro has signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding with Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development to manage and operate a number of farms in the UAE
- Fruitnet.com
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22 July 2020
As the world concentrates on dealing with COVID-19 pandemic, multinational companies continue to evict communities from their land, tearing down their lives and their sovereignty to plant monocrops like oil palm and sugar cane in Africa, or GMO soy in South America.
The Oakland Institute, independent policy think tank based in the US, in a recent report said the compact between Sri Lanka and the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) could potentially shift millions of hectares of land in the country into private control
Feronia announces that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with Straight KKM 2 Ltd that provides for the acquisition of its operating subsidiary, Plantations et Huileries du Congo.
- Globe Newswire
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21 July 2020
O Ministério da Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural torna público que os parceiros envolvidos com o Governo no Programa ProSAVANA acordaram o seu término com a conclusão do “Projecto para o Estabelecimento de Modelo de Desenvolvimento ao Nível das Comunidades com Melhoria do Serviço de Extensão Rural no Desenvolvimento Agrícola do Corredor de Nacala em Moçambique”
- Ministério da Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural
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20 July 2020
Alors que les entreprises d’huile de palme se présentent comme des donateurs charitables pendant la pandémie, les communautés vivant dans et autour de ces plantations racontent une autre histoire.
A new wave of alleged environmental and human rights abuses by Wilmar, Socfin and others sees renewed calls for action
La Soguipah - entreprise d'Etat qui détient 9 000 ha de plantations d'hévéa en Guyinée - fait appel à Bolloré pour continuer à tourner
- Mosaiqueguinee.com
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15 July 2020
Is the pandemic opening up forms of organizing to restore community control over resources or will it consolidate the efforts of those already holding the balance of power to usurp community control over land?
Kenya's President has intervened in a land dispute between Murang’a residents and Del Monte Foods after being pressured by the US government as part of talks around the proposed free trade agreement.
A decade ago, the Indonesian government began to heavily promote large-scale plantation in southern Papua. An investigation recently published explored how some outside investors gained rights to the land and the fallout for the indigenous population. Children were suffering from malnutrition while agricultural commodities are exported from their ancestral land.
- The Gecko Project
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14 July 2020
A push to privatise land and other resources in countries from Ukraine to Papua New Guinea is hurting indigenous people and the rural poor, while increasing the risks linked to climate change.
As institutional investors continue to seek “pockets of calm” amid the turmoil, farmland’s resilience during the global financial crisis and the pandemic’s immediate aftermath is likely to be top of mind.