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Due to "significant financial market disruption/challenge arising from Covid-19", Olam has terminated a deal for its onion and garlic facility in California with Mesirow Financial and taken back its farmland.

Boston-based Peritia Capital Management invests in hard assets or agribusiness companies via debt, equity, or joint-venture structures.

As Uganda begins a 32 day COVID – 19 lockdown, multinational companies dispossessing more than 35000 natives off their land, have resorted to the use of violence to grab land for poor communities.

This report highlights nearly 700 organizations that are investing in food and agriculture globally in a sector that had over $131 billion in Assets Under Management in 2019.

A Mongabay investigation traces the rise and fall of a billion-dollar agribusiness cartel in Eastern Europe, finding it relied on money laundering, tax avoidance and state capture.

More than 35,000 people from 20 villages are homeless after being evicted from about 9,300 acres [3,764 ha] of land in Kiryandongo District to pave way for large scale farming by foreign-held companies

In the next decade, 400 million acres of U.S. farmland will change hands. A land justice advocate sees a timely opportunity to counteract entrenched income inequality and systemic racism.

The proposed acquisition of O Telhar by Amaggi encompasses all assets in Brazil, including about 70,000 hectares of farming land, cotton mills, warehouses and machinery

Letter calls on UK, US and Dutch governments to investigate the growing humanitarian crisis in Kiryandongo district, Uganda, where thousands of families are being evicted by an agribusiness company that they are backing.

Les signataires d'une lettre appellent à la libération immédiate de 5 villageois emprisonnés depuis plus de 5 mois en RDC, pour des fausses accusations liées à un conflit foncier avec la société canadienne de plantation de palmiers à huile Feronia Inc.

Groups issue petition calling for the immediate release of 5 villagers in the DR Congo imprisoned for over 5 months on false charges related to a land conflict with the Canadian oil palm plantation company Feronia Inc.

A security guard for the Canadian oil palm plantation company Feronia Inc was acquitted on 4 February 2020 for the murder of Joël Imbangola Lunea, an environmental activist and member of the organisation RIAO-RDC.