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LACERA buys into TIAA-CREF’s global farmland funds
- IPE
- 09 February 2022
Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) is buying into TIAA-CREF’s global farmland funds with a $456m investment.
Babiš feels the pinch as new Czech farm chief rewrites EU subsidy rules
- Politico
- 08 February 2022
An EU audit found that the Czech Republic's former prime minister, the billionaire Andrej Babiš, had improperly kept control of his food and farming conglomerate Agrofert while in office.
Meet the investors behind the PHC oil palm plantations in DRC
- Oakland Institute
- 08 February 2022
As community efforts to reclaim 100,000 ha of their ancestral land are met with violent repression, unlawful arrests, and murder, a new report exposes the financiers profiteering from the plantations in the DR Congo.
Gates Foundation among investors backing troubled DRC palm plantation
- Mongabay
- 08 February 2022
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation along with a number of prominent US university endowments are among the top investors in a troubled set of oil palm plantations in the DRC, according to a report from the Oakland Institute.
Arla signs JV agreement with Tolaram for establishment of modern dairy farm in Nigeria
- Food Business Africa
- 08 February 2022
Arla Foods, one of the largest dairy cooperatives in Europe, has inked a joint-venture partnership with consumer goods company, Tolaram Group, for establishment of a 200 hectare dairy farm in Kaduna State.
South Sudan ready to lease land to Bangladesh: Razzaque
- Daiy Star
- 08 February 2022
South Sudan's Deputy Minister for Foreign and International Cooperation Deng Dau Deng Malek placed the proposal in a meeting with Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque in Dhaka.
Court halts land clearance on edge of protected park in Zambia
- Guardian
- 07 February 2022
Conservationists welcome interim injunction to stop farm development by Tanzania oil company they say threatens migration of 10 million fruit bats
Financialisation of agriculture : an analysis of land issues
- CEP
- 05 February 2022
Findings from a study conducted by the Centre for Studies and Forecasting of France's Ministry of Agriculture on the takeover of agricultural land by financial players.
89 832 land agreements are incorporated in Ukraine
- Ukraine Government
- 04 February 2022
The Ministry of Agrarian policy and Food of Ukraine reports that 89 832 agreements are closed within the framework of market of land, since the land market was opened in July 2021.
Okomu oil suspends operations after deadly attack by gunmen
- Premium Times
- 03 February 2022
The Okomu Oil Palm Company in Edo State, Nigeria has suspended its operations in the aftermath of an incident described by management as a “terrorist attack”.
The great Amazon land grab – how Brazil’s government is turning public land private, clearing the way for deforestation
- The Conversation
- 02 February 2022
The most widely publicized threat to the Amazonian rainforest is deforestation. Less well understood is that public lands are being converted to private holdings in a land grab we’ve been studying for the past decade.
Security operatives have gone after those who burnt my farm, ex-President Obasanjo says
- Sahara Reporters
- 01 February 2022
Land conflicts are alleged to be connected to a fire that burnt Obasanjo's 2,420 hectare mango farm in Benue State, Nigeria.