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How to resist the expanding global land grab
- Common Dreams
- 19 Mar 2024
The International Conference on Global Land Grabbing in Bogotá this week is a step towards strengthening alliances across social justice movements.
Del Monte is turning Kenya into a Pineapple Republic
- Jacobin
- 18 Mar 2024
In Kenya’s lush Thika region, stealing pineapples is a de facto capital crime. At least nine men have allegedly been killed by security guards employed by Del Monte, the world’s largest producer of pineapples.
China's Haishan Group unveils major aquaculture project in Angola
- Seafood Source
- 18 Mar 2024
Haishan Group, a private Beijing-based construction firm with farming operations in Angola, has announced its involvement in the construction of a 300-hectare real estate and fishery industrial park featuring aquaculture, seafood processing, and feed production facilities.
Ownership of oil palm giant Presco returns to Nigeria after 33-year Belgian control
- Premium Times
- 18 Mar 2024
A company connected to Nigerian agribusiness Saro Africa has acquired Presco from long-time investor Siat N.V, based in Brussels, Belgium, which had held on to the company’s majority control for well over three decades until the start of this month.
Papua New Guinea realising rice dream
- Loop
- 17 Mar 2024
Rigo Rice has agreed to partner with the National Government and Wilmar International Limited in a joint venture to establish a large-scale commercial and irrigated rice farm on 5,000 ha
Canadians pay $180m to take control of Queensland egg farmer
- AFR
- 17 Mar 2024
Canada's public worker pension fund manager PSP Investments has made a significant stride in Australia's agricultural sector by acquiring a majority stake in Ellerslie Free Range Farms, a leading egg producer, for $180 million.
Tanzania’s richest man wants to be Africa’s biggest farmer — If everyone gets out of his way
- Forbes
- 16 Mar 2024
Globe-trotting billionaire Mo Dewji made a fortune in East Africa selling palm oil, rope, and soda. Now he says he's trying to acquire 100,000 ha in Rufiji and another part of Tanzania for sugarcane and cereal plantations.
Assert our right to land, exercise our right to resist! resist corporate landgrabs and imperialist aggression!
- PCFS
- 16 Mar 2024
The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty has adopted Day of the Landless in 2018 as an annual global action to give spotlight on the issue of global landlessness and highlight the land struggles of rural peoples in the Global South.
Socapalm : de l’argent versé à des plaignants camerounais
- DW
- 15 Mar 2024
Les plaignants dénoncent l’expropriation de leurs terres. Selon des ONG camerounaises, le versement de cette somme aiderait à réaliser des projets communautaires.
Siat-Gabon : Micmac et descente aux enfers des employés
- Gabon Review
- 15 Mar 2024
Selon le journal Le Mbandja, la holding belge, qui était présentée comme une passerelle vers la diversification de l’économie gabonaise, n’a rien investi et ses différents champs sont actuellement investis par de hautes herbes.
Investors see big returns on farmland — are they pricing out farmers?
- News Nation
- 15 Mar 2024
As the global demand for food rises and the supply of arable land shrinks, investment managers like Nuveen — a subsidiary of the largest global investor in agriculture, TIAA — see farmland as an attractive asset class.
Huile de palme : une holding a versé 142 000 euros aux Camerounais opposés au groupe Bolloré
- AFP
- 13 Mar 2024
L’exploitation des terres par la Socapalm empêche 145 Camerounais d’accéder à des terrains et lieux de sépulture et pollue leur eau. Après des années de procédure, ils ont obtenu 142 000 euros d’une holding qu’ils accusent d’être contrôlée par le groupe Bolloré.
Palm oil: a holding company has paid 142,000 euros to Cameroonians opposed to the Bolloré group
- AFP
- 13 Mar 2024
On Wednesday, the Luxembourg holding company Société financière des caoutchoucs (Socfin) paid €142,000 to Cameroonian plaintiffs, a fine imposed by the French courts for failing to produce documents that could establish its links with the French company Bolloré.
We're razing forests for palm oil plantations again
- Mongabay
- 13 Mar 2024
Palm oil companies in Indonesia, the world’s top producer of the commodity, cleared 30,000 ha of forest last year to make way for plantations. France-based TheTreeMap used plantation concession data from Greenpeace to identify 53 companies behind the plantation expansion and resulting deforestation, of which 20 had cleared carbon-rich peatlands.
Dozens of Cambodians charged in land dispute: activist
- AFP
- 13 Mar 2024
A Cambodian court has charged 29 people with illegally occupying state land following an incident in which authorities fired live rounds in a crackdown on a longstanding land dispute.