US

Arkansas orders Chinese-owned seed producer Syngenta to sell US farmland
- Reuters
- 17 October 2023
Arkansas ordered Syngenta to sell 65 hectares of farmland in the US state within two years on Tuesday because the company is Chinese-owned.
How TIAA purchased a legacy of racism & murder
- TIAADivest!
- 16 October 2023
Two TIAA subsidiaries, Global Ag Properties and Premiere Ag Properties, purchased 50,000 acres of land in Arkansas that were stolen over 100 years ago from Black farmers in one of the largest massacres of Black people in US history.
Private equity backed US peach farm files for bankruptcy to pursue sale
- Reuters
- 13 October 2023
Four years after a private equity firm merged two of the nation’s largest peach farmers into a single entity, the firm is basically worthless.
Santa Barbara board upholds rejection of reservoir construction project on former HMC Holdings
- Harvard Crimson
- 12 October 2023
A California county board of supervisors voted to uphold a decision rejecting a project to construct three water storage reservoirs on former Harvard University land holdings in central California.
Harvard’s water grab denied in California
- Stop Harvard Land Grabs
- 11 October 2023
Stop Harvard Land Grabs continues to demand that Harvard give full transparency about its land investments, return land back to communities, pay reparations, and adopt a policy against future farmland investments.
Farmland for farmers, not farmland for hedge funds
- Heritage Radio Network
- 06 October 2023
In the US, the National Family Farm Coalition is advocating for the Farmland For Farmers Act introduced by Senator Cory Booker in July of this year.
US: Carrot boycott over water rights gains traction in Cuyama Valley
- Noozhawk
- 04 October 2023
Cuyama Valley farmers and ranchers have launched a boycott of supermarket carrots to protest a water rights lawsuit that was filed against them by Bolthouse and Grimmway farms, major carrot farmers in the valley.
Squeezing communities dry: water grabbing by the global food industry
- GRAIN
- 21 September 2023
Financial players are moving aggressively to snatch up lands around the world with access to water for irrigation. Their strategy is to pump as much water as they can and as fast as they can into the production of crops that reap high prices in export markets.
China owns little US agricultural land
- China Daily
- 29 August 2023
Fears of China buying up farmland in the United States have been grabbing headlines despite the fact that China owns less than 1 percent of foreign-owned land.
Arizona government retiree fund benefiting from UAE alfalfa farm
- AZ Family
- 24 August 2023
Corporate and property records show a winding path of ownership for the lands of the Al Dahra farm that leads from the city of Phoenix to an investment fund that includes the Arizona State Retirement System.
State pension fund is helping a Middle Eastern firm export Arizona’s precious groundwater
- Reveal
- 10 August 2023
The state’s retirement system invested heavily in a private land deal that allowed a foreign company to effectively ship Arizona’s scarce water supply overseas.
La Chine possède des terrains aux États-Unis et cela pourrait poser problème
- Daily Digest
- 07 August 2023
La Chine est en fait très loin de la première place occupée par les entreprises canadiennes, qui possèdent plus de 4,8 millions d'hectares de terres agricoles aux États-Unis, selon le ministère de l'Agriculture.