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Esta semana comienzó la marcha a Lago Escondido y la columna de montaña “Juana Azurduy” arrancó su recorrido. La movilización tiene como objetivo denunciar la apropiación de un espejo de agua por el magnate inglés Joe Lewis.

Foreign investors increased their holdings of property, now owning nearly 46 million acres of farmland throughout the US. This accounts for 3.6% of all agricultural acres and 2% of all land in the United States.

New Hampshire-based Conservation Resources has teamed up with Dutch asset manager Achmea Investment Management on a farmland investment fund, Conservation Resources Farmland II, its second North American farmland fund

In the US, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has taken a major step to stabilise water use in the state’s rural desert, where a Saudi-owned company established a massive farming operation more than a decade ago.

The strategy of the US$500mn fund is built around the acquisition and operation of high-quality permanent and specialty farmland across the US, with regenerative organic certification positioned as a value driver

Carbon credits are derived from Kijani Forestry’s Smallholder Farmer Forestry Project in northern Uganda, which establishes woodlots on degraded land, with roughly 30 million trees planted to date in collaboration with local growers.

Christopher Robinson, a local elected official who already controls roughly one million acres of land, acquired the 916,000-acre Pathfinder Ranches just four years after buying the neighboring 86,000-acre Stone Ranch.

Landa, vehículo de inversión alternativa gestionado por Bankinter Investment y Nuveen, ha cerrado la compra de una nueva finca de cítricos de aproximadamente 250 hectáreas ubicada en la provincia de Huelva. El fondo ha levantado 138 millones de euros para invertir en tierras agrícolas de España y Portugal.

The Arizona state government will start limiting groundwater pumping in a desert valley where a Saudi-owned dairy company grows hay, and where aquifer levels have been dropping.

Arizona officials are considering a plan to start regulating groundwater pumping in the rural area 100 miles west of Phoenix, where Fondomonte, part of the Saudi dairy giant Almarai, operates a massive alfalfa farm

El fondo brasileño de inversión Patria, conjunto con el fondo estadounidense Lexington Capital, está entrando en el mercado de tierras agrícolas en México, tomando control de AgroFibra

Oklahoma lawmakers have passed measures limiting foreign ownership of farmland in response to concerns about Chinese nationals and companies buying agricultural land in the state, but with carve-outs that specifically exempt Smithfield Foods.