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10 Jun 2021
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Israeli conglomerate set to invest $60M in Colombian Hass avocado production Fresh Fruit Portal | 08 Jun 2021
Managro, an Israeli-based agricultural investment conglomerate, is reportedly planning to buy 3,700 hectares of land in Colombia for Hass avocado production.
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McDonald's french fries, carrots, onions: all of the foods that come from Bill Gates farmland NBC | 08 Jun 2021
Gates does not appear to count his farming investments as the largest farmland owner in the US as part of his broader strategy to save the climate.
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Land conflicts in Brazil break record under Bolsonaro Mongabay | 04 Jun 2021
Land conflicts in Brazil broke a record in 2020 for the second year running, reaching 1,576 cases — the highest since 1985, according to the Pastoral Land Commission.
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Saudi-backed group exporting grain The Land | 04 Jun 2021
SALIC owns a whopping aggregation in Western Australia, Merredin Farms, which produces grain and livestock over 211,000 hectares and grows around 120,000 tonnes of grain alone each year.
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Indonesia: Expanding palm oil operations bring harm Human Rights Watch | 03 Jun 2021
The Indonesian government is failing to protect the rights of communities living on or near peatland converted to commercial agriculture. It is also permitting the widescale destruction of one of the world’s most important carbon sinks, Human Rights Watch said.
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West Papua revokes quarter of a million hectares of land from palm oil Mongabay | 03 Jun 2021
Local government in Indonesia’s West Papua province has revoked permits for 12 oil palm concessions that cover an area twice the size of Los Angeles after a recent audit of palm oil concession holders found widespread administrative and legal violations. Activists have called on the government to follow up on the revocation by granting Indigenous peoples access to the rescinded concessions instead of granting new licenses to other investors.
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University of Iowa faculty demand TIAA accountability The Gazette | 03 Jun 2021
Retirement system is largest manager of farmland in the world - that contributes to land-grabbing, deforestation and human rights violations
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Land deals meant to improve food security may have hurt PNAS | 19 Jan 2021
Large-scale land acquisitions by foreign investors, intended to improve global food security, had little to no benefit, increasing crop production in some areas while simultaneously threatening local food security in others.
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Mauritanie : la campagne d’accaparement des terres de la Vallée est lancée Senalioune.com | 03 jui 2021
Dans une interview accordée à un hebdomadaire étranger, le ministre des Affaires économiques affirme être «en train de travailler avec la Banque mondiale afin d’attirer le privé international pour investir dans l’agriculture» mauritanienne.
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Moïse Katumbi retourne à la terre Financial Afrik | 03 jui 2021
Prospère homme d’affaires dans le domaine minier, le trading, la pêche..., Moise Katumbi Chapwe veut faire de la République démocratique du Congo le grenier de l’Afrique
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Indonésie : Des plantations de palmiers à huile aux effets nocifs HRW | 03 jui 2021
Les dommages causés à des communautés par une plantation de palmiers à huile dans l'ouest du Kalimantan, en Indonésie, démontrent l'incapacité du gouvernement à appliquer ses propres politiques et lois, a déclaré Human Rights Watch dans un rapport publié aujourd'hui
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Ousmane Kane : "Nous ne pouvons plus laisser ces terres [de la Vallée] sans valorisation" Golal Media | 31 mai 2021
Le ministre mauritanien des Affaires économiques et de la Promotion des secteurs productifs a annoncé que la Mauritanie était en train de travailler avec la Banque Mondiale afin d’attirer le privé international pour investir dans l’agriculture, tout en le mettant à l’abri des problèmes fonciers dans la région du fleuve Sénégal.
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Estudio revela que palma aceitera y soya se cultivan en bosques talados de manera ilegal Mongabay | 04 jun 2021
En Colombia "Claramente los grandes acaparadadores y compradores hacen su negocios para agricultura mecanizada. Hay una búsqueda de tierras para comodities emergentes como la soya, la carne, la palma y el mercado de maderas, así como para negocios alrededor de los bonos de carbono".
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Dos cadenas de supermercados en Colombia estarían propiciando deforestación en Amazonia RCN Radio | 28 may 2021
La Agencia de Investigación Ambiental reseñó que "las débiles instituciones gubernamentales permiten el acaparamiento de tierras, la deforestación ilegal y el lavado de ganado.
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Argentina: Un modelo injusto para una alimentación no sustentable ENI Argentina | 28 may 2021
Hasta agosto de 2019, nuestro país registró un total de 217 casos de grandes transacciones de tierra, donde el mayor porcentaje de las inversiones son para cultivos a gran escala y/o ganadería. Esto representa una superficie total de 4.467.125 hectáreas dedicadas, principalmente, al agronegocio.
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Ligações perigosas: fundos de pensão internacionais, incêndios e grilagens no Matopiba Agro e Fogo | 01 Jun 2021
O Incra e o Tribunal de Justiça da Bahia (TJ-BA) reconheceram que dois dos maiores compradores estrangeiros de terras agrícolas no Brasil -os fundos de pensão da TIAA-CREF e o fundo de investimentos da Universidade de Harvard-adquiriram ilegalmente centenas de milhares de hectares de terras agrícolas no Cerrado brasileiro.
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