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Foreign ownership of American land has gained a lot of buzz lately, but senior staff attorney and professor with the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School, Fran Miller says more attention should go to domestic corporate ownership.

Los Angeles-based Aliment Capital has invested in US-based, Agrovision which has large-scale berry and grape plantations in Peru, Mexico, Morocco and the US.

In Kenya’s lush Thika region, stealing pineapples is a de facto capital crime. At least nine men have allegedly been killed by security guards employed by Del Monte, the world’s largest producer of pineapples.

As the global demand for food rises and the supply of arable land shrinks, investment managers like Nuveen — a subsidiary of the largest global investor in agriculture, TIAA — see farmland as an attractive asset class.

Le premier projet porte sur le développement d’un domaine agricole irrigué de 15 500 hectares dédié à la culture du maïs et du soja alors que le second concerne une plantation de canne à sucre de 7 400 hectares.

En 2023, des groupes financiers ont acquis des exploitations espagnoles pour 2 milliards d’euros. Le principal syndicat des petits agriculteurs s’inquiète d’une ubérisation des campagnes, tandis que d’autres tentent de vendre au meilleur prix.

Some of the world's largest pension funds bet big on Brazilian farmland. Communities, and the climate, are paying the price

Le régime de retraite des fonctionnaires fédéraux canadiens a acheté une ancienne plantation de canne à sucre à Maui. Mais des habitants et des militants écologistes protestent contre cette présence étrangère qui accapare l’eau de l’île pour faire pousser des agrumes.

“The Emiratis are farming and have withdrawn so much water from the ground that the entire town of Wenden has sunk by four feet,”

Purchase of Australia's largest fruit grower by Driscoll's and US and Canadian private equity and pension funds includes six blueberry farms in Morocco and four berry farms in China.

Arizona’s Auditor General has released a scathing report, criticizing the State Land Department for leasing land to a Saudi-owned company in western Arizona at cheap rates.

A private equity farming giant with more than 1,500 acres of land in Fresno and Tulare counties and 8,600 acres statewide has declared bankruptcy.