Understand FIAgro – The new agribusiness-related investment fund accessible to foreign investors

• FLA
• 04 May 2021

A new type of investment fund was created by Brazil's Congress which may be used for acquisition of Brazilian rural land

Peruvian agribusinesses' interest in acquiring land in Colombia increases

• Fresh Plaza
• 03 May 2021

Colombian Embassy in Peru says Peruvian agribusiness companies have a growing interest in investing in land in Colombia and at least five companies are set to do so in 2021 to grow blueberries and avocados

Holding companies to account

• Global Witness
• 30 April 2021

European companies, including oil and rubber giant Socfin, have long profited from human rights abuses, environmental destruction and climate breakdown. This briefing from Global Witness sets out proposals on how to change that under EU law,

Madagascar: Worse than the Daewoo project, the Agribusiness Strategy

• CRAAD-OI and TANY
• 29 April 2021

The government of Madagascar has earmarked 4 million hectares for agropoles while at the same time pursuing a 60,000 ha land loan to Elite Agro LLC and revising the land law in favour of investors

University of Iowa faculty rebuke farmland investors for fueling land grabs and corporate takeover of agriculture

• ActionAidUSA
• 28 April 2021

The University of Iowa Faculty Senate voted 42 to 7 to pass a resolution calling on the university to hold the financial services provider TIAA accountable for its investments in global farmland.

Ontario Teachers’ invests in four family-run orchards to create single 500 ha business

• GAI
• 27 April 2021

The newly merged entity in Victoria, Australia will include more than 500 hectares of orchards, water rights, two packing houses and additional land.

Liberia: 'We don't want to threaten anybody'

• New Dawn
• 26 April 2021

Responding to an appeal from a parliamentary representative to rectify the current Liberia Agriculture Company concession agreement, Liberia's President Weah said his administration don't want to threaten anybody.

Mahi Pono and paraquat: The 2020 sequel

• Politics on Maui
• 23 April 2021

A farm in Maui owned by Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board sprayed some 240 gallons of Gramoxone (paraquat) eight times from January to May, 2020

Kuramo Capital accuses Congo investment partner of looting plant

• Bloomberg
• 22 April 2021

A Kuramo Capital fund filed suit in Delaware seeking to oust the manager of its investments in DR Congo palm oil plant over his alleged scheme to loot the business.

The battle for Zimbabwe’s land never ended

• Vice
• 22 April 2021

Outrage over a mass displacement for a dairy farm has seized the national conversation in Zimbabwe, where it is impossible to talk about land without interrogating the legacy of colonialism and the present reality of anti-Blackness

After being tortured by the army, the land rights defender is charged and remanded to prison

• Witness Radio
• 22 April 2021

A community land rights defender who was kidnapped from his home and tortured by Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) soldiers guarding Kiryandongo Sugar Limited has been arraigned before a magistrate court in Kiryandongo district and charged with threatening violence.

Tanzania: Rice farmers lose appeal against Kapunga project

• Daily News
• 20 April 2021

Some famers from Mbeya Region have lost an appeal case over compensation and damages against a large rice farming company owned by Export Trading Group, which was accused of maliciously damaging their rice.