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Concerns about ag land sales
- Progressive Farmer
- 01 November 2021
Institutional investors and foreign countries alike increasingly see U.S. farmland as a sound investment, raising concerns.
Farmland manager Kilter secures $50m mandate from US investor
- IPE RA
- 27 October 2021
A US institutional investor has awarded a US$50m mandate to Australian sustainable farmland manager Kilter Rural to invest in agriculture and water assets.
Top global banks and investors made an estimated $1.74 billion in income since Paris Climate Agreement from deals with agribusinesses linked to destruction of climate-critical forests and human rights abuses
- Global Witness
- 21 October 2021
Big financial institutions rake in profits bankrolling the destruction of the land, homes and livelihoods of communities who have safeguarded their forests for generations
Comment l'agriculture africaine stimulera la sécurité alimentaire et protéique mondiale - Alan Kessler
- AAMN
- 12 October 2021
En commençant par le développement initial d'une ferme au Sénégal, African Agriculture, une entreprise basée aux États-Unis et axée sur l'Afrique, s'est lancée dans un voyage pour fournir des protéines au monde.
How African Agriculture will drive global food and protein security – Alan Kessler
- AAMN
- 12 October 2021
Beginning with an initial farm development in Senegal, African Agriculture, a United States-based Africa-focused company, has embarked on a journey to deliver protein to the world.
Meet the coalition resisting the global push for land privatization in Brazil
- Waging Nonviolence
- 01 October 2021
A campaign by U.S. and Brazilian activists challenging TIAA and other financial firms’ complicity in land grabs and deforestation in Brazil is scoring major victories.
113 groups push TIAA to divest from fossil fuels & stop land grabs, calling TIAA’s net zero by 2050 plan “wildly inadequate” for the climate crisis
- TIAA-Divest! et al
- 29 September 2021
In a letter laying out 6 clear demands, the groups call on TIAA to fully divest from fossil fuels by 2025 and to immediately stop its acquisitions of farmland.
Landgrabs at gunpoint escalate in Uganda as the operations of a defender of affected communities are suspended
- Ugandan land defenders
- 07 September 2021
Uganda's Non-Governmental Organization Bureau has suspended 54 organizations for alleged 'non-compliance', including Witness-Radio, which has been defending several communities whose lands have been grabbed by foreign agribusinesses.
New investor for dozens of former dairy farms converting to irrigated cropping
- Farm Weekly
- 23 August 2021
A controlling interest in the Murray River Land Trust Portfolio of about 15,000ha "owned, contracted and optioned land" near Strathmerton has been taken by a private equity firm.
As House focuses on China, farm groups see other land buyers
- Roll Call
- 05 August 2021
Farmland grabs by US companies and pension funds are being ignored as appropriators prioritise keeping Chinese interests in check, critics say
Proterra Investment Partners is selling its Corinella Group farm portfolio
- GAI
- 03 August 2021
Global investment company Proterra Investment Partners is divesting its Australian farm portfolio – the Corinella Group Pty Ltd consisting of 49 farms across southeastern Australia with expectations of fetching A$350 million.
US, Argentine investors tied to illegal land deals, deforestation in Brazil
- Mongabay
- 29 July 2021
Reporting by Agência Pública has revealed how investors including U.S. pension funds and an Argentine agribusiness giant may be linked to illegal land deals and deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado region.