Le collectif « Stop aux tomates industrielles » organise le 16 novembre une marche en France contre un projet de 32 ha de serres chauffées de tomates, représentant l'équivalent de 46 terrains de football. AgroCare (Pays-Bas) est l'un des plus grands producteurs de tomates sous serres d'Europe, également implanté au Maroc et en Tunisie.
Entretien avec le réalisateur malgache Nantenaina Lova. Son long-métrage documentaire Sitabaomba - Chez les zébus francophones s'intéresse à l'accaparement des terres, aux traditions paysannes et à la transmission aux générations futures
- Deutsche Welle
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12 November 2024
En los últimos 8 años, los menonitas han comprado más de 30.000 hectáreas en el Meta. La Agencia Nacional de Tierras investiga si estos terrenos son baldíos y los indígenas reclaman sus territorios.
- Noticias Caracol
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11 November 2024
Oil trader Trafigura and Singapore's Temasek will produce carbon credits by planting 24 million trees in Colombia's in Orinoco River Basin on 30,000 hectares of land that has been degraded by cattle grazing.
- ESG Today
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11 November 2024
Irrigation projects include a US$172mn, 23,000ha project with US-based Valley Irrigation , a €75mn, 13,000 ha project with Spain's Grupo Charmatin, and a US$100mn, 20,000 ha project with US-based Lindsay Zimmatic.
- Sunday Mail
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10 November 2024
Desde 2016, la Red de Actores del Desarrollo Sostenible (RADD) apoya a las comunidades de las aldeas Apouh en Ngog, Dehane, Ongue y Koukohe, en su lucha por el reconocimiento de sus derechos humanos pisoteados por la multinacional que ocupa su patrimonio territorial.
UAE agribusiness giant Al Dahra, owned by Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, is looking for up to 100,000 hectares to produce food in Mato Grosso
- CenárioMT
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05 November 2024
In addition to the greenfield port north of Port Sudan, the project would have included a 400,000-acre agricultural development in the Nile region, hundreds of miles of new roadways, a large free trade zone
- Sudan Tribune
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05 November 2024
Al Dahra busca áreas com no mínimo 10 mil hectares para seus projetos no Brasil, com potencial para expansão até 100 mil hectares
- Canal Rural
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05 November 2024
A group of non-profits say the German companies may be in breach of national due diligence law, due to a failure to ‘interrogate and act on’ risks in their soya supply chain.
- SustainableViews
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04 November 2024
Institutional investors are driving movement in Australia's poultry farm property market, underscoring sustained demand for agricultural assets that offer steady, passive income.
- Grain Central
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04 November 2024
A trio of dairy farms spanning a combined 570 hectares in the state’s north have been listed for sale after more than a decade in the hands of Swedish owners.
- The Weekly Times
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04 November 2024
Paghimutad investigates the social and environmental costs of the controversial 6,000-hectare palm oil plantation owned by construction firm Consunji in Candoni town of Negros Occidental.
- Paghimutad
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03 November 2024
A large contingent of policemen, including elite force personnel, were sent to subdue peasants protesting for two days against the government’s decision to reallocate 528 acres of their “ancestral land” — cultivated by them for nearly a century — to a private company.
In a rare move, Australia’s largest agricultural landholder by value, the mammoth Canadian pension fund PSP, has listed a significant cropping aggregation in southern Queensland for sale.
- The Weekly Times
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31 October 2024
Saudi Agricultural & Livestock Investment Co., controlled by the country’s sovereign wealth fund, is in advanced talks on a transaction that would value Olam Agri Holdings at about $4 billion.
- Bloomberg
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31 October 2024
SALIC aspires to expand co-operation and investment in the Vietnamese market, especially in the production, processing and export of rice, along with animal feed, poultry, livestock and aquaculture.
There is an increasing demand for nature-based solutions and real assets are of particular interest to institutional asset owners. But just because something is a natural investment does not always mean it is good for the environment. Or that it is a good investment.
- ImpactAlpha
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29 October 2024
Corte de Delaware firma acuerdo poniendo fin a una demanda colectiva de las comunidades campesinas del Valle del Aguán en Honduras, reconociendo la responsabilidad de la Corporación Dinan y de la Corporación Financiera Internacional (CFI, por violencia armada -que resultó en al menos 40 asesinatos - para realizar el historico acaparamiento para expandir sus operaciones de aceite de palma.
- Criterio.hn
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29 October 2024
Ethiopia’s hopes of ushering in a new era of commercial farming ventures rested in large part on the shoulders of the Gambella Regional State. Recent years have seen hundreds of investors granted licenses and credit to establish commercial farms in the southwestern corner of the country, but little has come from the efforts.
- The Reporter
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28 October 2024
The Nasarawa State Government has commenced the harvest of its 2,000 hectares rice farm in Jangwa village of Awe Local Government Area, as part of the 10,000 hectares initially earmarked for its food security programme
- National Accord
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27 October 2024
One of Arbonics' clients in Lithuania is INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II which has already planted around 200 hectares of mixed forest and 750,000 trees in total to earn carbon credits.
Le Syndicat des paysan.nes indonésien.nes (SPI) a organisé une action de masse au siège de la police nationale indonésienne et au bureau du groupe Wilmar à Jakarta pour condamner l’accaparement récent des terres, la répression ainsi que les actions unilatérales de PT Permata Hijau Pasaman I du groupe Wilmar, bénéficiant de la protection de la police
- La Via Campesina
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25 October 2024
Suprema Corte do Brasil proíbe despejo de 48 famílias de assentamento no Mato Grosso por não haver infraestrutura básica para acolher as famílias. As empresas M2W Properties Holding Ltda. e Trust Agro Company Holding Ltda são acusados de falsificar documentos de propriedade, buscando maior margem de lucro em seus negócios de compra e venda de terras.
- Olhar Jurídico
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25 October 2024
The new program “PSN Merauke”, being implemented at a high speed, might become the biggest deforestation project worldwide, is overlapping with customary lands and will directly affect 40,000 indigenous people.
This article and podcast tell the story of women's resistance to oil palm plantations, REDD and a large-scale project for food production (Food Estate) in three villages in Central Kalimantan.
The company Sequoia has obtained a lease over 60,000 hectares for a eucalyptus monoculture project in the Haut-Ogooué province, Gabon. but statements from communities and a survey of more than 1,400 people from the impacted region reveal a total rejection of this plantation project.
In Congo-Brazzaville, tree planting projects intended for carbon markets have proliferated over the past four years, with large-scale monocultures initiated by oil companies under the seductive term of carbon neutrality and promises of job creation for communities.
Le projet, porté par des investisseurs privés des deux pays, prévoit l’implantation de cultures céréalières et le développement d’une filière d’élevage bovin laitier.
- Maghreb Emergent
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22 October 2024
The company intends to cultivate bamboo in phases, beginning with 8,500 hectares, and is applying for carbon credits with Gold Standard.
- The Guardian
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22 October 2024