Turkey plans to secure food supplies via Sudan, despite previous failure
- Quartz
- 05 Jul 2022
Turkey is revisiting a plan it started in 2016 but failed to execute leasing farmland in Sudan to grow sufficient food for home consumption and export.
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Scotland: Call for a 'public interest test' for big land sales
- Scottish Farmer
- 04 Jul 2022
Proposal comes as part of recommendations to support land and carbon markets so they work to the public’s benefit, alongside the second part of a major report into Scotland’s changing land market.
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World Bank approves $200 million IFC loan for industrial agriculture in Brazil’s Cerrado
- Mongabay
- 01 Jul 2022
A major loan was approved this week for an industrial food producer operating in Brazil, despite concerns that the money would ultimately fund activities that contribute to deforestation.
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Bill Gates North Dakota land purchase to go through
- Tri-State Livestock
- 01 Jul 2022
The North Dakota Attorney General has approved the sale and continued farming of about 2,100 acres of North Dakota farmland to a trust reportedly connected to billionaire Bill Gates.
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Farmland in Karabakh being given to powerful Azerbaijanis - report
- Eurasianet
- 28 Jun 2022
A new investigation has found that agricultural firms connected to powerful people, including the first family, were given non-transparent contracts to develop land in Karabakh.
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The impact of unimplemented large-scale land development deals
- Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
- 27 Jun 2022
Article analyses the effects on local actors, their land access, land use and tenure security of a large-scale land deal in northern Laos that a Chinese company initiated but subsequently abandoned.
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ECOWAS asked to put in place a moratorium on new land-based concessions for industrial plantations
- Front Page Africa
- 23 Jun 2022
A regional civil society group "Friends of the Earth Africa" has launched a campaign intended to urge ECOWAS to put in place a moratorium on new land-based concessions for industrial plantations.
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Food security concerns prompt Indiana to ban foreign ownership of agricultural land
- Indiana Lawyer
- 22 Jun 2022
A new law that prohibits foreign businesses from buying and owning state farmland places Indiana among the states that have enacted such statutes to ensure Americans have enough to eat.
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North Dakota Attorney General's Office looks into Bill Gates-related farmland sale
- Ag Week
- 22 Jun 2022
A company associated with billionaire Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates purchased $13.5 million worth of North Dakota farmland. Now the state's attorney general wants to make sure that sale followed the state's corporate farming law.
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Tycoon Dewji takes on Coca-Cola with Tanzania investment ramp up
- Bloomberg
- 22 Jun 2022
Dewji is talking to funders, including the African Development Bank and Proparco, to raise money for planned investments, which includes developing 30,000 hectares under plantation of sisal.
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An african delegation stages a demonstration in front of the headquarters of belgian company SIAT to reclaim their land and demand respect for human rights
- FIAN Belgium
- 22 Jun 2022
Community and civil society representatives from Ghana, Nigeria and Ivory Coast are in Brussels to denounce land grabbing by a Belgian rubber and palm oil company.
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Romanian farming group plans to raise EUR 10.7 mln from investors to accelerate expansion
- Romania Insider
- 20 Jun 2022
Holde Agri Invest, a Romanian farming group that has developed by drawing money from the capital market and buying farms in the country’s southern region, aims to raise EUR 10.7 mln in its biggest capital increase to date.
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