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  • Iowa tightens foreign-owned land law, but misses farmers' main concern: access to land
    • Des Moines Register
    • 23 April 2024

    Some Iowans believe the greater threat to US farmland is not China but big-money investors — from capital investment funds to tech billionaires, sports celebrities and churches — that are pushing ownership out of reach of Iowa farmers.

  • Philippines: Metro Pacific eyeing more agri investments
    • Manila Times
    • 22 April 2024

    The group, which has a dairy joint venture with Israel's LR Group, says it intends to increase its dairy capacity and invest in a 3,000-hectare property in Mindoro to "plant corn for cows" and for other purposes.

  • HAGL raises $51mln from private placement
    • VNN
    • 22 April 2024

    With the new injection of funds, HAGL intends to expand its total plantation area to 25,000 hectares for bananas, durian and other economically valuable crops across Việt Nam, Laos and Cambodia.

  • Colonialism revamped in the Democratic Republic of Congo
    • African Arguments
    • 21 April 2024

    Lord Leverhulme’s 1911 concession in the Congo, is now held by an African-run New York-based private equity firm with strong links to global philanthropy.

  • Pakistan sweetens terms to lure Saudi investment
    • Tribune
    • 20 April 2024

    Pakistan has offered Saudi Arabia a cattle farm in Punjab for 30,000 animals and 50,000 acres of land on lease for corporate farming, with reports that a deal with the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC) could be signed next week when Pakistan's PM visits the Kingdom The government has indicated a 22% return on the investment in corporate farming with a payback period of only six years, said the sources. The sources said that due to the lack of availability of water corporate farming cannot begin for at least one and a half years.

  • PSP Investments adds 8,000ha farmland to Australian agriculture portfolio
    • IPE Real Assets
    • 18 April 2024

    Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), the largest foreign institutional investor in Australian agriculture, has acquired more than 8,000 hectares of farmland in New South Wales from Duxton Farms for A$70m.

  • Snack giant PepsiCo sourced palm oil from razed Indigenous land
    • TBIJ
    • 18 April 2024

    The US food and drink giant PepsiCo has been linked through its supply chain to Amazon deforestation and the invasion of Indigenous lands in Peru, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), Mongabay and Peruvian outlet Ojo Público can reveal.

  • Comment lutter contre l’accaparement des terres arables en RDC ?
    • Radio Okapi
    • 17 April 2024

    Entretien avec l’ingénieur Ignace Bwaya Biza , consultant à la Confédération paysannes du Congo (COPACO/PRP).



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