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US: Bill would halt foreign ownership of Missouri farmland
- Missourian
- 15 January 2020
Rep. Doug Beck (D-St. Louis) has offered House Bill 1492, which would halt any future foreign corporate ownership of Missouri farmland.
Feronia announces missed debenture interest payment
- Globe Newswire
- 02 January 2020
With the aim of improving its financial resources, management is in on-going discussions with its lenders and major shareholders and is reviewing various short and long term financial alternatives.
Pressure on Lankan government to drastically modify MCC Compact
- Lanka Web
- 13 December 2019
Nationalist and left wing members of the Sri Lankan parliament are putting pressure on the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government to drastically modify the US-Lanka Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact on land registration
Kazakhstan inks agreements with agribusiness giants Tyson Foods, Valmont Industries
- Astana Times
- 11 December 2019
Tyson Foods, the largest meat processing company in the U.S., will invest in the construction of a modern meat processing complex in Kazakhstan with the Kusto Group, a Singapore-based company involved in beef production in Kazakhstan.
Optimum compró más tierras y expande sus operaciones agrícolas en Estados Unidos
- Infobae
- 10 December 2019
La compañía líder en agricultura concentrada adquirió 2261 hectáreas en Georgia y la marca Generation Farms
DR Congo palm-oil firm Feronia accused of abuses
- BBC
- 26 November 2019
Feronia, a company 38% owned by the UK government’s development bank, has been accused of a series of environmental and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Letter from NGOs to the UK's CDC regarding its actions to undermine a community mediation process with Feronia
- RIAO et al.
- 25 November 2019
NGOs call on the CDC Group and all the development banks involved in the Feronia-PHC oil palm plantations to publicly issue a clear statement of support for the mediation process and to ensure the security of participating community members.
UK development bank accused of failure to safeguard Congolese workers
- Guardian
- 25 November 2019
The UK development bank has been accused of failing to protect workers from exposure to dangerous pesticides and paying “extreme poverty” wages on palm oil plantations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Ukraine, the land of quid pro quos
- Common Dreams
- 13 November 2019
If we are to take the matter of quid pro quos seriously, we should take the measure of over US$20 billion of aid forcing Ukraine to privatize its land and its economy for the profit of a few Western interests.
The Chain: Cerrado fires show TIAA and Harvard’s Endowment face mounting deforestation risks
- CRR
- 07 November 2019
With fires on their Cerrado properties, Harvard’s and TIAA’s deforestation exposure appears to be growing.
Farmland investors seek yields (almost) as high as an elephant’s eye
- INvestable Universe
- 31 October 2019
With very low interest rates having taken root across asset classes and investors abiding in their hunt for higher yields, the world’s largest manager of global farmland, Nuveen, says the season may be ripe for a strategic allocation to the $2.3 trillion market for U.S. farm real estate.
Bullish on cows: Fiera CEO bets on farmland for future growth
- Montreal Gazette
- 29 October 2019
One of Quebec’s largest private investors thinks he has found the perfect investment vehicles to make up for sagging bond returns: milk, almonds and maple syrup.