For farmers in Asia as elsewhere, land ownership and effective control is the key to any radical transformation of the food systems and for attempts to achieve genuine sustainable development to really matter.
Sur Reddit, un internaute a demandé "Hey Bill ! Pourquoi achetez-vous autant de terres agricoles ?". La réponse : "Mon groupe d'investissement a choisi de faire cela. Ce n'est pas lié au climat".
Gates was asked why he is buying so much farmland. His answer: “My investment group chose to do this ... It is not connected to climate.”
Alors que les efforts de la communauté pour récupérer 100 000 hectares de leurs terres ancestrales, initialement saisies il y a plus d'un siècle pour des plantations de palmiers à huile, sont confrontés à une répression violente, des arrestations illégales et des meurtres, un nouveau rapport de l'Oakland Institute dévoile les noms des investisseurs finançant les plantations en RDC.
- Oakland Institute
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16 Mar 2021
El fundador de Microsoft tiene un terreno de casi 28.000 hectáreas situado en el estado de Louisiana. Le siguen las propiedades de Arkansas (20.000 hectáreas) y de Nebraska (8.331 hectáreas).
The co-founder of Microsoft and his wife rank as the largest private farmland owners in the US, with over 242,000 acres across the country.
- Land Report
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18 January 2021
Le fondateur de Microsoft possède plus de terres agricoles aux États-Unis que n'importe quel propriétaire terrien privé américain, selon The Land Report.
Entities like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are directing large commitments to the farmland space, Investable Universe reports.
- Investable Universe
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03 February 2020
Two of Washington’s largest tree fruit orchards have been taken over by financial companies, as operators reportedly began to realize the operations would need large capital infusions to renew older orchards and remain competitive.
- Growing Produce
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12 February 2019
A new Oakland Institute report details how the Bank’s Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project promotes large-scale land acquisitions and the expansion of agribusinesses in the developing world.
- Oakland Institue
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24 January 2019
Bill Gates spent $171 million to buy 14,500 acres of farmland in Southern Washington, the most expensive U.S. land sale so far this year, according to the Land Report.
- Bloomberg
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02 October 2018
AgDevCo and African Agricultural Capital Fund announce investments in a 518 ha Malawian macadamia farm.
- PRNewswire
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25 November 2014