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06 Jun 2024
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Indonesia’s massive sugar-bioethanol project in South Papua causes locals to fear exploitation Benar News | 05 Jun 2024

Indonesia is going ahead with a project to convert millions of acres in Papua into a gigantic sugarcane plantation to produce bioethanol. But Indigenous communities and environmentalists worry that the project in South Papua’s Merauke regency will lead to land grabs, ecological damage, and the destruction of traditional livelihoods.

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Open letter on Socfin's proposed divestment from SRC in Liberia | 04 Jun 2024

Liberian, West African and international civil society organizations, communities and individuals are alarmed by news that SRC’s parent company, Socfin, is seeking to divest its shares in SRC without first settling its social, environmental, cultural, financial, and economic debts to affected communities.

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AgDevCo secures $90mn in funding to further invest in African agribusiness GAI | 03 Jun 2024

The funding comes from the UK's CDC Group. Norfund and the US DFC.

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The World Bank and land: some questions Zimbabweland | 03 Jun 2024

A new World Bank report on land in Africa acknowledges the failures of large land deals but still promotes large-scale land investments.

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Land squeeze: The hidden battle for Africa’s soils African Arguments | 03 Jun 2024

Africa is at the forefront of the land grab crisis in the Global South, with nearly 1,000 large-scale land deals for agriculture recorded across the continent since 2000.

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Investors reshaped Canadian home real estate. Something similar is happening in agriculture CBC | 03 Jun 2024

Experts say the economic forces now reshaping agriculture are similar to ones that have transformed residential real estate over the last two decades, with investors — from pension plans to well-to-do urban families — fuelling speculation and driving up real estate prices

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Kazakhstan to build the world’s largest greenhouse Times of Central Asia | 03 Jun 2024

Russia's Agro-Industrial Holding Company has confirmed plans for the construction of a 500 ha greenhouse complex in the Keles district of the Turkestan region.

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‘Saviour of carbon markets’ faces questions over African land rights Source Material | 29 May 2024

Carbon Done Right plans a stock market flotation and says it has secured access to 57,000 hectares in Sierra Leoone—but no leases have been registered with local authorities

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Papuans head to Indonesian court to protect forests from palm oil Al Jazeera | 28 May 2024

Representatives of the Awyu and Moi communities from the Indonesian province of West Papua held traditional ceremonies outside the country’s Supreme Court calling for their traditional land and forests to be protected from palm oil plantations. The Awyu have also intervened in appeals taken by two other palm oil companies against a decision to cancel permits that it had previously issued for them to clear Indigenous lands.

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Temasek’s GenZero backs first phase of project looking to restore 100,000 ha of South Africa land Business Times | 28 May 2024

Temasek-owned GenZero is among investors backing the first phase of an ecosystem restoration project, which at full scale targets to plant thicket on 100,000 ha of land across the Eastern and Western Capes of South Africa.

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Millions more trees isn’t the climate fix New Zealand thought Bloomberg | 28 May 2024

Since 2019, the country has added some 175,000 hectares of tree plantations, almost all the fast-growing, carbon-sucking Pinus radiata pine

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World Bank pursues land grabs for “energy transition” Avispa Midia | 27 May 2024

For the World Bank guaranteeing land tenure means business security for large investors, but for small scale producers, Indigenous peoples, workers, and grassroots communities it means land grabbing and displacement

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Regen ag investment pioneer SLM posts 40% AUM growth driven by US institutional interest, reveals first carbon assessment AgFunder | 22 May 2024

“Probably the biggest growth is in working with large institutional investors at large pension funds and insurance companies, and also some quite large family offices,” which manages over 300,000 ha of farmland and timberland in the US, Europe and Australia.

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Move to hand over Punjab farmland to army scrapped Dawn | 22 Jun 2023

The Lahore High Court struck down a decision by the interim government of Punjab to hand over 45,000 acres of land in three districts to the army on a 20-year lease, saying that the agreement was beyond the mandate of both — the caretakers and the military.

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Rainforest Alliance et Mirova signent un partenariat stratégique Boursier | 06 jui 2024

L'ONG et la filiale de Natixis visent à développer l'offre de solutions climatiques fondées sur la nature, basée sur la gestion durable des terres de Mirova en Afrique, en Amérique latine et en Asie.

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Lettre ouverte sur le projet de désinvestissement du groupe Socfin de la SRC au Liberia | 04 jui 2024

Des organisations de la société civile libérienne, ouest-africaine et internationale, ainsi que des individus et communautés locales, sont alarmés par la nouvelle selon laquelle le géant d'hévéas Socfin cherche à céder ses parts dans la Salala Rubber Corporation sans d'abord régler ses dettes sociales, environnementales, culturelles, financières et économiques à l'égard des communautés affectées

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Les terres agricoles sont-elles la proie d’investisseurs et de spéculateurs? Radio Canada | 03 jui 2024

Les grandes familles agricoles demeurent les plus grands joueurs au pays, mais les investisseurs institutionnels et les spéculateurs gagnent du terrain dans l'Ontario, au Canada

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Manifestation à Mbane sur le foncier : Un collectif marche contre l’accaparement des terres Leral.net | 03 jui 2024

Des membres du collectif ”Sauvons la commune de Mbane” ont organisé une marche pacifique dans les artères de la commune de Mbane, dans le nord du Sénégal, pour dénoncer l’accaparement des terres de leur collectivité territoriale.

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Emirats arabes unis : cultiver des produits frais... dans le désert ! RFI | 31 mai 2024

Elite Agro exploite des fermes localement et à travers une centaine de projets dans le monde, dont l'Afrique, pour satisfaire le marché emirati.

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En RDC, les communautés tentent de récupérer leurs terres spoliées par le géant de l’huile de palme PHC Mongabay | 30 mai 2024

Les communautés riveraines des plantations de la société Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC) au nord-est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) revendiquent un peu plus de 58 000 hectares de terres et veulent accéder aux titres fonciers de la société pour connaître les limites de ses concessions.

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Enquête sur la tension foncière entre les riverains d'Apouh et la Socapalm Equinox TV | 23 mai 2024

La population d'Apouh A Ngog au Cameroun s'oppose fermement aux travaux de replanting des palmiers à huile de la société Socapalm, du groupe luxembourgeoise Socfin.

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Financiariser la terre agricole est « dangereux », selon le président d'un organe de régulation AFP | 22 mai 2024

« Créer un produit financier à partir de la terre agricole », comme le propose le gouvernement français, « c'est dangereux et ce n'est pas adapté », a déclaré mercredi le président de la Safer, un organe de régulation du foncier.

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350 millions d’euros dédiés à la gestion durable des terres BPCE | 22 dec 2023

Mirova, affilié de Natixis Investment Managers, annonce le lancement de Mirova Sustainable Land Fund 2 (MSLF2), un fonds basé sur une stratégie de gestion durable des terres en Amérique Latine, en Afrique et en Asie

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Exigen devolución de tierras robadas y protección frente a la violencia
Las plantaciones de palma aceitera se extienden al este de Amazonía de Brasil. La población indígena y quilombola denuncia que las empresas de palma aceitera se han apropiado de grandes extensiones de tierra. Piden a las autoridades que les devuelvan sus tierras y les protejan de la violencia y los ataques continuos. Firma aquí

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