US

USAID : Grading donors on land rights
- USAID
- 31 Mar 2014
US government reviews efforts to implement voluntary guidelines and go further in legitimising or building consensus around largescale farmland deals
Should you invest in farmland?
- Wall Street Journal
- 28 Mar 2014
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.
Wall Street investors take aim at farmland
- Mother Jones
- 14 Mar 2014
Corporations are starting to buy up US farmland, especially in areas dominated by industrial-scale agriculture, like Iowa and California's Central Valley
Almarai acquires huge farmland in Arizona
- Arab News
- 11 Mar 2014
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.
Washington State Investment Board commits $1.2 billion to 4 alts funds
- PI
- 24 February 2014
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.”
Wall Street banks eye American farmland, threaten future of US agriculture
- Oakland Institute
- 18 February 2014
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
Here's why foreign investors are trying to buy American farmland
- Takepart.com
- 13 February 2014
“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.
L’aveuglement de l’USAID sur les violations des droits de l’homme en Ethiopie dénoncé par le Congrès américain
- Survival France
- 12 February 2014
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.
The smokescreen of foreign ownership of farmland
- LaCrosse Tribune
- 05 February 2014
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 retire son soutien financier à l’accaparement des terres du peuple autochtone anuak dans l'état de Gambella
- GITPA
- 02 February 2014
Le gouvernement des États‐Unis a pris une position dans le projet de loi pour l’ouverture des crédits 2014.
US Congress takes a historic stance against land grabs-related forced evictions in Ethiopia
- Oakland Institute
- 27 January 2014
The 2014 Omnibus Appropriations Bill contains provisions that ensure that US development funds are not used to support forced evictions in Ethiopia.
Washington veut combler son retard sur le marché africain
- RFI
- 23 January 2014
Selon Paul Obambi, président de la chambre de commerce de Brazzaville, « Les terres fertiles que nous avons en Afrique sont encore disponibles. Il faudrait bien que nous puissions attirer un peu plus les investisseurs américains. »