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25 Mar 2021
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Ukrainian plans for a breeding farm in Kazakhstan Pig Progress | 23 Mar 2021
Ukrainian pig company KSG Agro and its Swiss partner plan to build a breeding complex for 50,000 pigs in Kazakhstan, which is free of African Swine Fever, to export pork to China.
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Stop TIAA’s corporate investment in land grabs that foster displacement and threaten biological and ecological destruction. PSC-CUNY | 23 Mar 2021
Resolution adopted by the Professional Staff Congress, a union that represents 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York and the CUNY Research Foundation.
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Nuveen drives global ESG capabilities Financial Standard | 23 Mar 2021
Nuveen's head of sustainability will support Westchester's response to rising investor demand for carbon neutral portfolios, providing scalable, natural solutions to counter climate change through farmland investments.
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Pension and endowment funds linked to conflict-plagued oil palm in DRC Mongabay | 22 Mar 2021
A new report from the Oakland Institute, reveals that several well-known pension funds, trusts and endowments are invested in a group of oil palm plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo accused of environmental and human rights abuses.
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Liberia: Farmers demand ‘balance’ payment In land deal with Equatorial Palm Oil in Grand Bassa County FrontPageAfrica | 22 Mar 2021
But more than four years after signing a deal, five communities allege they were cheated. They say the company still owes them, and they demand retroactive payment.
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Bill Gates attempts to explain why he bought more farmland than anyone else in America Futurism | 22 Mar 2021
Gates was asked why he is buying so much farmland. His answer: “My investment group chose to do this ... It is not connected to climate.”
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University assembly resolution to encourage TIAA divestment from fossil fuels Cornell Daily Sun | 21 Mar 2021
Resolution by Cornell's University Assembly also calls on its main pension fund supplier to divest from agribusiness companies associated with deforestation, indigenous rights violations, and severe climate impacts.
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Senator Sherman questions Mano Palm legality to operate Daily Observer | 19 Mar 2021
Grand Cape Mount County Senator Varney Sherman says Mano Palm is reneging on the US$12M transferred for Sime Darby’s social obligations to Grand Cape Mount
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In King Leopold’s steps: The investors bankrolling the PHC oil palm plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo Oakland Institute | 18 Mar 2021
As community efforts to reclaim 100,000 hectares of their ancestral land are met with violent repression, unlawful arrests, and murder, a report unveils the names of the new investors financing the plantations in the DRC.
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FarmTogether closes the largest single-asset crowdfunded farmland investment PRNewswire | 11 Mar 2021
The deal size reflects the growing demand for farmland investments, as investors seek alternative assets amid heightened market volatility, fears of inflation, an emphasis on sustainability, and more.
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Haiti’s de facto President gives Haiti to Coca-Cola Haïté Liberté | 24 Feb 2021
In a country where nearly 40% of the population suffers from food shortages, some 8,600 hectares of fertile land is now to be used to produce stevia as a sweetener for the multinational Coca-Cola.
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Bill Gates est le plus grand propriétaire agricole aux Etats-Unis… et il ne sait pas pourquoi Capital.fr | 24 mar 2021
Sur Reddit, un internaute a demandé "Hey Bill ! Pourquoi achetez-vous autant de terres agricoles ?". La réponse : "Mon groupe d'investissement a choisi de faire cela. Ce n'est pas lié au climat".
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Sénégal : Birahim Seck du Forum Civil invite Macky Sall à revoir le décret d’affectation Sud Online | 23 mar 2021
Le Coordonnateur National du Forum Civil s’engage à jouer sa partition dans l’affaire des 20 000 hectares de terres du Ndiaél affectés à des investisseurs étrangers.
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Mauritanie: accaparement des terres agricoles de Feralla, populations et ONG dénoncent Le 360 Afrique | 22 mar 2021
Les populations du village de Feralla continuent à refuser toute idée d’aménagement de la cuvette dite de «Koylal» dans le cadre du Projet régional d’appui pour l’irrigation au Sahel, financé par la Banque mondiale.
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Manifestation pacifique contre l’accaparement des terres paysannes en Haïti Alterpresse | 22 mar 2021
Plusieurs centaines de paysannes et paysans ont marché, le samedi 20 mars 2021, depuis la localité de Papaye jusqu’au centre-ville de Hinche, pour continuer de dénoncer les actes d’accaparement de leurs terres au profit des multinationales
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Haïti : Des organisations paysannes dénoncent la spoliation de leurs terres au profit des oligarques pro-PHTK Rezo Nòdwès | 20 mar 2021
André Arpaid, un oligarque pro-PHTK, a reçu plus de 8 600 hectares de terres agricoles pour la création de la zone franche agro-industrielle de Savane Diane, qui produira l’édulcorant stévia pour la transnationale Coca Cola.
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“Les Ogres de la Terre”, comment les multinationales chinoises acquièrent des terres agricoles dans le Berry France 3 | 18 mar 2021
Dans ce documentaire, des agriculteurs témoignent de l’impuissance de la SAFER face à l’accaparement des terres en France.
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Campesinos denuncian acaparamiento de tierras en Haití El País Costa Rica | 20 mar 2021
El reciente reclamo responde al otorgamiento mediante decreto presidencial de más de ocho mil 600 hectáreas de tierras agrícolas para establecer la Zona Franca Agroindustrial de Savane Diane, que producirá el edulcorante stevia para la trasnacional Coca Cola.
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