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Massive carpet of green over UAE desert to get bigger as Sharjah wheat farm expansion announced
- Kaleej Times
- 26 April 2023
Work is underway to boost cultivation area by five times to reach 1,900 hectares
Cadastre disaster
- Brown Political Review
- 25 April 2023
Mega-agribusiness corporations are using digital land registries as well as georeferencing technologies to deceitfully obtain property deeds that deprive Indigenous communities of their lands.
Cameroun : Les communautés du village Apouh (Sanaga-Maritime) s'opposent au replanting des palmiers à huile autour des habitations
- Mediaterre
- 25 April 2023
Le 13 avril 2023, les populations du village Apouh à Ngog situé dans l’arrondissement d’Edéa 1er, département de la Sanaga-Maritime, région du Littoral, ont paralysé les activités de production à l’usine de la Société camerounaise de palmeraies (Socapalm) d’Edéa.
Farmers in forests reserves are illegal occupants – Ondo State Government
- The Source
- 21 April 2023
There have been protests by the farmers that have plantations in the Forest Reserves as the State moves to hand them over to some foreign partners for oil palm plantations.
AgDevCo commits $8 million to Kenyan Avocado venture with Agris, Granot
- GAI
- 20 April 2023
The partners are aiming to develop a 390 hectare avocado plantation at Agris’ flagship Ndabibi farm in Naivasha, Kenya
Protest In Ondo over forceful eviction of over 10,000 farmers from forest reserve by Governor Akeredolu
- Sahara Reporters
- 20 April 2023
The Ondo State government has forcibly evicted over 10,000 farmers from the Oluwa Forest Reserve in the Odigbo Local Government Area of the state to make way for a large-scale plantation project by SAO Group.
Relatório “Os Invasores” revela empresas e setores por trás de sobreposições em terras indígenas
- De Olho Nos Ruralistas
- 19 April 2023
Levantamento inédito do observatório De Olho nos Ruralistas identificou 1.692 fazendas com incidência em território indígena; por trás das sobreposições estão gigantes do agronegócio, indústria armamentista e investidores dos cinco continentes
Campesinos y campesinas de Honduras exigen aprobación del Decreto de Emergencia sobre el acceso y legalización de las tierras
- Resumen Latinoamericano
- 19 April 2023
Campesinos y campesinas de Honduras exigen aprobación del Decreto de Emergencia sobre el acceso y legalización de las tierras como una medida para contrarrestar el acaparamiento de tierras por parte de empresarios nacionales e internacionales.
Liberia: “Gov’t must serve as gatekeeper in agri. investment”
- Daily Observer
- 19 April 2023
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative to Liberia, Mariatou Njie, wants the government to serve as a gatekeeper in the area of agricultural investment.
Soulèvements de la Terre: “Entre el fin del mundo y el fin de su mundo, no hay alternativa”
- El Salto
- 18 April 2023
Aparece ante nosotros la clara imagen de la bifurcación entre mundos y no cabe la menor duda de cuál de ellos debe extinguirse. Las últimas movilizaciones populares en Francia de les Soulèvements de la Terre (los levantamientos de la Tierra) contra el acaparamiento de tierras y aguas, nos anuncian un giro drástico en este combate.
Kilter Rural launches A$500m evergreen agri fund
- IP&E
- 18 April 2023
Kilter Rural was recently awarded a US$50m mandate from a large US financial institution to invest in Australian agriculture.
Cameroun : nouvelles tensions entre Socapalm et les populations riveraines
- EcoMatin
- 17 April 2023
Sur le manque d’espaces vitaux, les populations de la Sanaga Maritime reprochent à l’exploitant, de s’être accaparé des aires propices à leurs activités de survie quotidienne, l’agriculture de subsistance et les aires pastorales notamment.
Salima Sugar offers 3,500 hectares for mega farms
- Times News
- 17 April 2023
As the Malawi government hunts for land to establish mega farms in the country, Salima Sugar Company has offered 3,500 hectares of its 5,000 hectares that are lying idle towards the cause.
New investment projects in the agricultural sector discussed
- UzDaily
- 17 April 2023
The Korean corporation POSCO International is in talks with the government of Uzbekistan for a US$196 million textile investment, that includes lands for the cultivation of cotton.
The “net zero” squeeze on peasants’ rights and land
- FOE
- 17 April 2023
A new rush for “carbon removals” and “offsets” from land, forests and oceans is ramping up repression under the guise of providing “nature based solutions” to the ecological crises.