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La extranjerización de los Esteros del Iberá y su impacto en el medio ambiente y la vida de sus pobladores es un tema recurrente.

US government reviews efforts to implement voluntary guidelines and go further in legitimising or building consensus around largescale farmland deals

Wealthy investors can diversify beyond stocks and bonds by owning cornfields. John Taylor of U.S. Trust says farmland produces capital gains as well as income.

Corporations are starting to buy up US farmland, especially in areas dominated by industrial-scale agriculture, like Iowa and California's Central Valley

Saudi dairy company Almarai completed the purchase of 9,834 acres of farmland in Arizona, US, as part of its efforts to secure a supply of alfalfa hay from outside the Kingdom to support its dairy business.

A $50 million commitment was made to ACM Permanent Crops, a fund managed by Agriculture Capital Management that seeks “superior value creation from vertically integrated, sustainable farming.”

The wolves of Wall Street are eyeing millions of acres of US farmland that will soon come up for sale, according to a new study from the Oakland Institute

“Farmland has now become the latest scarce ‘hot’ commodity for all sorts of speculators who have absolutely no interest in agriculture,” says John Peck of Wisconsin-based Family Farm Defenders.

Le Congrès américain a pris des mesures afin d’empêcher que l’aide humanitaire apportée en Ethiopie ne soit utilisée pour financer l’expulsion forcée de peuples indigènes dans le sud-ouest du pays.

Let us focus on the real issue that our legislators should be grasping: how do we keep farmers operating and attract farmers to own the land they work, and not become peasants on land rented from institutional investors, domestic or foreign.

Le gouvernement des États‐Unis a pris une position dans le projet de loi pour l’ouverture des crédits 2014.

The 2014 Omnibus Appropriations Bill contains provisions that ensure that US development funds are not used to support forced evictions in Ethiopia.