Durante el Foro de los Pueblos y Movimientos Sociales en Colombia, líderes rurales e indígenas alertaron sobre el acaparamiento de tierras, el extractivismo y los desalojos por políticas de conservación que se agravan #ICARRD+20
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Colombia's Daabon group has just bought Agripalma's 40,000 ha operation in Brazil. Agripalma is a controversial oil palm company that has been accused of land grabbing, pollution, violence and other serious abuses by Indigenous and local communities.
farmlandgrab.org/search?query... @mongabay.com
Land regime change: Voices in Venezuela start calling for land reform to allow foreign investors the right to buy & own the country's farmland
farmlandgrab.org/33371 @fian-international.bsky.social @progintl.bsky.social @foeint.bsky.social @viacampesina-en.movimientos.social.ap.brid.gy
Según informe de Observatorio Desca, desde 2005, los fondos de inversión han multiplicado por 15 sus inversiones en tierras agrarias, superando las 700 empresas en el sector. Actualmente el 1% de las explotaciones controla casi el 70% de la superficie agrícola mundial fruittoday.com/los-fondos-m...
Philippine government’s plan to expand oil palm plantations in Mindanao have been slammed by agriculture labour union, saying the plan will not benefit farmers and farmworkers. www.bulatlat.com/2026/03/03/a...
Ugandan author Charles Onyango-Obbo draws the line between the US-Israel assault on Iran, and agricultural land grabs by Gulf States and allied interests (such as African Agriculture Inc, owned by Frank Timis) across Africa:
nation.africa/kenya/blogs-... @cobbo3.bsky.social @oaklandinstitute.org
#Breaking World’s largest pension fund divests from Bolloré group due to unresolved concerns about “serious human rights violations” at Socfin, a plantation company partly owned by the group. farmlandgrab.org/33357 @rainforestnorway.bsky.social @business-humanrights.org @mongabay.com
#BREAKING Le plus grand fonds de pension au monde se désengage du groupe Bolloré en raison de préoccupations non résolues concernant de « graves violations des droits humains » chez Socfin, une entreprise agricole détenue en partie par le groupe. farmlandgrab.org/33358 @asso-sherpa.bsky.social
El Gobierno argentino cede al lobby corporativo pretendiendo imponer UPOV 91, para reforzar el poder de las grandes empresas semilleras www.newsdigitales.com/nota/325920/...
El nuevo informe de @ipes-food.org desmiente las promesas de la digitalización de la agricultura a manos de las corporaciones. Muestra también los peligros que encierra la alianza de gigantes tecnológicas como Microsoft, Amazon o Alibaba con las grandes del agronegocio. elpais.com/planeta-futu...
Desde África hasta América Latina, los proyectos de “compensación de carbono” esconden acaparamiento de tierras y control de recursos. Millones de hectáreas entregadas a corporaciones, sin beneficios reales para comunidades ni sus bosques legrandcontinent.eu/es/2026/02/2... @etcgroup.bsky.social
Dos fallos en Buenos Aires frenan las fumigaciones con agrotóxicos en Gral. Rodríguez, Rauch y Tandil. Los fallos intentan proteger a las comunidades que viven alrededor de grandes extensiones de monocultivos para exportación agenciatierraviva.com.ar/dos-fallos-c...
Comunidades indígenas ocuparon oficinas de Cargill en Santarém Brasil para frenar el dragado de ríos amazónicos. El dragado amenaza al río Tapajós para beneficio del agronegocio a costa de la selva y pueblos indígenas www.swissinfo.ch/spa/ind%C3%A...
The war in Sudan is reportedly driving Saudi Arabia to deepen its agricultural investments, for the kingdom's own food security, in Ethiopia.
hornreview.org/2026/02/25/s... @somoamsterdam.bsky.social
El Tren Bioceánico entre Perú y Brasil amenaza la Amazonía. Expertos alertan sobre graves impactos en pueblos indígenas y biodiversidad. Los gobiernos priorizan el agronegocio sobre la selva y sus comunidades es.mongabay.com/2026/02/ruta... @cooperaccion.bsky.social
It may surprise some, but US farmers are increasingly saying NO to multimillion-dollar offers for their land from data centers & AI firms.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... @etcgroup.bsky.social @familyfarmco.bsky.social
💲Billions are flowing into digital agriculture.
AI. Precision tools. Cloud platforms.
@ipes-food.org new report warns corporate-led digitalisation risks increasing farmer debt & concentrating control over seeds and data.
📖 Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-...
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En 2022, las inversiones financieras en la tierra en Portugal y el Estado español superaron mil millones de euros. Los fondos de inversión acaparan tierra y la alquilan a empresas para la producción de olivo, aguacate, cítricos @observadesca.bsky.social
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Bayer’s recent US$9 million spent on lobbying in the US, and connections to the Trump administration, have paid off. Both glyphosate and dicamba have now been re-approved as herbicides, which will boost Bayer’s sales.
usrtk.org/pesticides/b...
@corporateeurope.org @lobbycontrol.bsky.social
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Saudi Arabia is eyeing to develop corporate farming in Pakistan’s rice sector for export back to Saudi. The issue came up in broader discussions on bilateral cooperation and investment between the two countries www.dawn.com/news/1972647
My take on a very interesting discussion on @mongabay.com, between @grain.org and @landmatrix.bsky.social about the carbon land grab.
Featuring the TERAKA smallholder tree planting project in Madagascar, run by a French company called iTeraka.
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Just a day before US Supreme Court vote Trump's reciprocal trade deal violating law, Indonesia was the latest country signed into this trade deal that has detrimental requirements such as prevent barriers to US agricultural products and obligation to join UPOV1991 ustr.gov/sites/defaul...
Palestinians fear that Gaza’s agricultural lands will be forcibly taken by Israel if the buffer zone becomes a permanent fixture, reports @aljazeera.com. Blueprints released as part of Trump’s plan for Gaza show many agricultural areas erased.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
TIAA, the US pension fund manager, has a subsidiary called Nuveen, which handles its investments in farmland around the world. Nuveen is now taking over a top UK financial group, making TIAA twice the size of Blackstone in terms of assets under management!
www.nuveen.com/global/insig...
José Antônio Turiwara, Cacica Hilda's son, is on the front line of his people's struggle. Photo: Raimundo Paccó/SUMAÚMA
Excellent reporting about how the Turiwara people of the Acará Valley in northeastern Brazil are struggling to defend and recover their lands from Latin America's largest oil palm plantation company (and RSPO member), Agropalma.
sumauma.com/en/a-luta-do... @sumauma.com @foeint.bsky.social
Gates Foundation is planning to set up 200 artificial insemination centres focusing on high milk-yielding cattle as part of India’s Vidarbha–Marathwada Dairy Development Project. The project also offers Rs200,000 loan to farmers.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/...
The trade deal with US marked a huge shift in India as one of the most protected farming sectors in the world. Thousands of farmers mobilised across India, demanding the agreement gets scrapped. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Map shows area being developed by Suriname Green Energy Agriculture (113,000 hectares)
Officials in Suriname are trying to cancel a controversial agribusiness contract that could result in the clearance of over 113,000 hectares of Amazon rainforest. "If the land is cleared, we'll lose access to our carbon credits," advisors say. Via @mongabay.com
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#Uzbekistan ended state-imposed forced labor in the cotton harvest in 2021, but authorities continue to violate the human and labor rights of cotton and wheat farmers through a coercive state production system.
More in a NEW @uzbekforum.bsky.social - @hrw.org report -
www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...
