The Farmland for Farmers Act, in banning corporations from purchasing farmland, improves the chances for beginning, small-scale producers to access land and produce food for themselves and their communities.
Pension funds, Wall Street investors, and other well-funded entities and individuals looking for good investments have been buying up domestic farmland. Their goal is profit, not food production or stewardship of natural resources.
US lawmakers from both parties are pushing legislation that would limit who can own American farmland, with a latest effort from Democratic Senator Cory Booker aimed at curbing corporate ownership.
"Empresas transnacionais do agronegócio causam violência, grilagem de terras e destruição no Cerrado" é o título de um novo relatório da Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t work the land on his Hawaii ranch, but he and other wealthy landowners still benefit from huge agricultural tax breaks.
Iowa farmers are bidding not only against neighbors, but out-of-state investors including professional athletes, well-known billionaires and the Mormon Church.
L’accord stipule que le Groupement Boghé pour le Développement de l’Agriculture et de l’Élevage accorde à la société afro-américaine d’agriculture et de coopération une superficie de 2 000 hectares pouvant être augmentée, dont 80% seront exploités par l’entreprise et 20% par les propriétaires fonciers, sur une durée de 20 ans.
L'exploitation est basée dans le district de Mkushi, dans la province centrale, et comprend des terres aménagées pour la production du blé, du soja et du maïs, ainsi que d’autres cultures fruitières telles que l’avocat et la mangue.
The bill's proponents say hedge funds and other money managers have been buying up agricultural land in California to sell water rights and use water "at an unsustainable rate to farm permanent crops or grow livestock feed for export.
Documentos revelam sociedade entre TIAA e Cosan para comprar terrenos e evitar leis que limitam compras a estrangeiros
The 2000 hectares of agricultural land, along with buildings and related assets, is located within the Mkushi Farm Block of Zambia’s Region II agricultural zone.
Die Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe (ÄVWL) hat sich nach zehn Jahren aus hochproblematischen Landkäufen in Brasilien zurückgezogen
