• Brasil: O maior plano mundial criando terras agricultáveis
    • A Tarde
    • 04 September 2024

    Plano Nacional de Conversão de Pastagens Degradadas em Cultivos Sustentáveis pretende incorporar 40 milhões de hectares para produção de biocombustíveis, celulose, aquicultura, e "um ótimo ativo para se servir" o mercado de carbono. O Plano promete dobrar o agro brasileiro "sem tirar uma só árvore sequer": "uma revolução criativa tropical".

  • Bourse du Luxembourg : de nouvelles accusations de violations de droits humains à la Société Camerounaise des Palmeraies
    • Eco Matin
    • 02 September 2024

    Une enquête du Comité d’éthique du fonds de pension norvégien, actionnaire du groupe Bolloré, sur les opérations de Socfin au Cameroun imputent de graves méfaits à ce mastodonte de l’agro-industrie qui contrôle Socapalm et Safacam.

  • Jamais un mètre-carré de terre congolaise ne sera cédé (Denis Sassou-N’Guesso)
    • Echos du Congo
    • 02 September 2024

    À propos des terres agricoles accordées à des sociétés rwandaises, le Président de la République du Congo a déclaré que jamais il n’a été question de leur vendre des terres. "À chaque fois, il s’agit -ou il s’agira- de terres louées pour une période déterminée et pour une mission précise."

  • Australian Food & Agriculture sells vast NSW portfolio in $780m deal
    • Beef Central
    • 02 September 2024

    Privately-owned Australian Food & Agriculture Company has sold its 13 New South Wales farms spanning 225,405 ha to NASDAQ-listed Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Corporation for $780 million.

  • Egyptian Countryside Development, Al Magd Group to cultivate 29,000 feddans of oil crops in west Minya
    • Daily News Egypt
    • 02 September 2024

    Amr Abdel Wahab, chairperson and managing director of the Egyptian Countryside Development Company, signed an investment contract with Al Magd Group for a 29,000-feddan area for the large-scale cultivation of oil seed crops

  • Salala Rubber Corporation sells its plantation to Jeety Rubber LLC
    • Liberian Investigator
    • 31 August 2024

    The Liberian Investigator has confirmed that the Socfin Group has sold the Salala Rubber plantation to Jeety Rubber following weeks of violent protests at the company’s facilities and years of serious criticism from Green Advocates and international rights groups for reportedly causing significant harm to local communities, including land grabbing, environmental degradation, and human rights abuses.

  • Agronegócio é o principal responsável pela perda de vegetação nativa no Brasil, diz estudo
    • Brasil de Fato
    • 31 August 2024

    Área de pastagem expandiu 79% e agricultura 228% nos últimos 40 anos, principalmente de monocultivos para exportação, com boa parte baseada na invasão de terras públicas e de comunidades locais. A agropecuária passou de 28% para 47% no Cerrado, já no Pantanal, a superfície de água passou de 21% em 1985 para 4% em 2023.

  • Menonitas acaparadores de tierras indígenas en el Meta serán juzgados
    • Colombia Informa
    • 30 August 2024

    El pueblo indígena Sikuani exige la restitución de 58 mil hectáreas de su territorio en el Meta, ya reconocidos por la Agencia Nacional de Tierras (ANT), de los Menonitas que las compraran de forma irregular del paramilitarismo. El grupo religioso destina las tierras a monocultivos de soya, maíz, arroz y frijol con intenso uso de pesticidas.

  • Israel eyes Kenya for wheat farming after Galana-Kulalu maize failure
    • Business Day Africa
    • 30 August 2024

    Kenya has revealed plans to lease large tracts of land to Israeli investors for wheat production, marking a renewed agricultural venture after an earlier Israeli-led maize project at the Galana-Kulalu irrigation scheme failed.

  • Madagascar – Emirats Arabes Unis : Un financement à hauteur de 10 milliards de dollars
    • Midi Madagasarikara
    • 29 August 2024

    Les Emirats Arabes Unis vont soutenir l’Etat malgache dans la production de sucre. Le président Andry Rajoelina entend encourager les investisseurs émiratis à intervenir dans les secteurs clés de l’économie tels que l’agriculture résiliente.

  • Socfin to withdraw from Luxembourg Stock Exchange: the end of an era
    • Delano
    • 29 August 2024

    The CSSF has put an end to a year-long dispute between small shareholders and Socfin's main shareholders, the Fabri family and French billionaire Vincent Bolloré: the 689,337 shares they not control between them will be bought back at €32.50 per share. This will take Socfin off the stock market at a time when it is the target of fierce criticism from a major Norwegian pension fund. It was also the end of an era for the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

  • Retrait de la Socfin de la Bourse de Luxembourg, la fin d’une époque
    • Paperjam
    • 29 August 2024

    La CSSF a mis fin à un an de «différends» entre de petits actionnaires et les principaux actionnaires de la Socfin, les Fabri et le milliardaire français Vincent Bolloré: les 689.337 actions qui leur manquent seront rachetées à 32,5 euros l’action. De quoi retirer la Socfin de la cotation au moment où elle est la cible de critiques virulentes du fonds de pension norvégien. La fin d’une époque, aussi, pour la Bourse de Luxembourg.

  • Nigeria: Court restrains Nasarawa govt from arresting farmers amid seizure of 10,000 hectares
    • Daily Post
    • 28 August 2024

    The Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an order restraining the Nasarawa State government and security agencies from arresting farmers or interfering with their rights, pending the resolution of a legal dispute over the alleged forcible seizure of 10,000 hectares of farmland.

  • Brasil: Incêndios em SP começaram em 90 minutos; mais de 80% dos focos ocorreram em áreas de uso agropecuário, aponta Ipam
    • G1
    • 27 August 2024

    Em 2 dias Estado de São Paulo registrou 2,6 mil focos de calor: mais de 80% estavam concentrados em áreas de uso agropecuário, como plantações de cana-de-açúcar e pastagens. Inquéritos e prisões sugerem ações organizadas para promover queimadas em larga escala como estratégia para a ocupação e especulação de terras.

  • Buscan unirse movimientos de resistencia en contra de “paraísos industriales”
    • La Jornada del Oriente
    • 27 August 2024

    Fue creada la “Unión de Pueblos” que unirá a todas las resistencias contra industrias y grandes capitales que saquean el agua y realizan despojo de tierras en Puebla, cómo la empresa Granjas Carroll. Así como hay “paraísos fiscales”, “paraísos agroindustriales” surgen en complicidad con gobiernos omisos que ven crecer el saqueo.

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