In California's wine country, Harvard University's multi-billion dollar endowment is looking to take advantage of water scarcity.
- The Takeaway
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19 December 2018
ANZ Banking Group violated its own policies and international human rights standards by financing a Cambodian sugar company that seized land from local farmers, according to a report released by an Australian government body that monitors corporate behavior overseas.
Interview activist Nasako Besingi, the Director of the Cameroonian organization Struggle to Economize the Future Environment (SEFE), which supports local communities’ land rights struggles mainly against palm oil plantations.
The courageous victory of the villagers of Port Loko to get their lands back is an inspiration to communities affected by oil palm plantations from across Africa and the world.
Harvard University, the US pension fund manager TIAA/Nuveen and Japan's Mitsui are among the foreign companies buying up Brazilian farmlands that are responsible for over 420,000 ha of deforestation in the Cerrado since 2000.
The Indian group Phoenix Agro Industry and Trade Company, headquartered in Dubai, plans to grow and process agricultural products in Uzbekistan.
- UZ Reports
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17 December 2018
La magnitud de este fenómeno de apropiación de tierras agrícolas por parte de las financieras tiene importantes consecuencias tanto para las comunidades rurales como para los sistemas alimentarios.
Villagers in Chipinge, Manicaland province have dragged ethanol producer, Green Fuel to court to stop it from occupying their communal land and interfering with their farming activities
BrasilAgro, which is 40% owned by Argentina's Cresud, continues to clear land on its Chaparral farm in Correntina, a municipality in the Brazilian state of Bahia.
Greenpeace Africa, in partnership with Nsang Dilong, Freddy Kristel and Alene Menget, is launching a campaign against land grabbing using videos, an online and offline petition in Cameroon.
- Greenpeace
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13 December 2018
Les vidéos et les sketches humoristiques constituent un moyen utilisé par les acteurs tels que Nsang Dilong, Freddy Kristel et AleneMenget pour présenter le grave problème de l'accaparement des terres d'une manière compréhensible pour tous les Camerounais.
On peut se poser la question de savoir s’il y a pas de grands groupes agro-alimentaires et financiers derrière l'achat des terres en France
According to a new report by Knight Frank Research, the allure of African agriculture remains strong, attracting private, institutional and sovereign capital from around the world.
- Knight Frank
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11 December 2018
Hungarian legislator Erik Bánki claims his farmland purchases in Romania were financed from loans from foreign and Hungarian companies but he does not remember the names of these companies.
Turkish investors have been cooperating with Kuwaiti businesspeople to invest some $100 million in greenhouses on a 100 hectare area in the Karaali region to export agricultural products to Gulf countries.
- Daily Sabah
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11 December 2018