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08 Dec 2022
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Indigenous, human rights and environmental organisations call on Louis Dreyfus Company to remedy its role in Amazon deforestation and human rights violations linked to Peruvian palm oil Forest Peoples Programme | 07 Dec 2022
This week, Peruvian and international organisations filed a complaint before the OECD in the Netherlands, which calls for Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) to be held accountable for contributing to negative impacts on the environment, human rights and corruption through its sourcing of palm oil from the Ucayali region in the Peruvian Amazon.
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Russian oligarch seizes 400,000 acres of Ukrainian farmland, owners say WSJ | 06 Dec 2022
Alexander Tkachev, a former Russian agriculture minister, heads a family company that Ukrainian grain growers say has taken control of hundreds of thousands of acres of their land.
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IMF-led privatisation, land and resource grab in Sri Lanka The Island | 05 Dec 2022
A clause in the 2023 budget states that "it is expected that large parcels of unutilised/unproductively used lands will be leased out on long-term basis to grow exportable crops"
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To replace Western food imports, Cameroon gives community lands to ‘no-name’ agro-industry Mongabay | 01 Dec 2022
Last May, the Cameroonian government decided to allocate 95,000 hectares of land to the company Tawfiq Agro Industry to develop an agro-industrial facility aimed at reducing expensive Western food imports.
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Fresh fruits from the Andean region GAI | 28 Nov 2022
Frontal Trust develops strategic alliances with local agribusiness operators with the objective of structuring investment vehicles to fund their growth plans, and connecting capital to investment opportunities in Latin America farmland.
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CASEF : La Réunion concernée par la réussite du projet Témoignages | 07 dec 2022
Un projet de la Banque mondiale à Madagascar va promouvoir la propriété privée des terres agricoles pour aider à nourrir l'île de La Réunion
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France : La Cour d’appel donne raison à 145 riverains Camerounais opposés au groupe Bolloré Ouest France | 01 dec 2022
La justice française a donné raison, ce jeudi 1er décembre 2022, à 145 riverains camerounais face au groupe Bolloré, qui exigent qu’il fournisse des documents censés établir ses liens avec la Société camerounaise de palmeraies.
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95 000 hectares de terres communautaires octroyées à une société camerounaise peu connue Mongabay | 17 nov 2022
Le gouvernement camerounais a décidé d’attribuer 95 000 hectares de terres – soit trois fois la superficie de Yaoundé la capitale camerounaise – à la société Tawfiq Agro Industry, pour le développement d’un complexe agro-industriel visant à réduire les importations massives de denrées alimentaires de l’Occident.
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Denuncian desalojo violento en comunidad guatemalteca Chapín Abajo Prensa Latina | 06 dic 2022
Es la cuarta ocasión en que fuerzas de seguridad ingresan a Chapín Abajo para desalojar a familias que reclaman las tierras hoy en poder de NaturAceites, dedicada al monocultivo de la palma africana en el área sur de El Estor, Izabal.
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Comidas contaminadas Global Witness | 06 dic 2022
Una oleada de conflictos violentos azota el campo paraguayo; la provoca la demanda de tierras para un único cultivo: la soja.
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Reclaiming Our Stories
ESCR-NEt | Online | 06 Dec 2022
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