Some Iowans believe the greater threat to US farmland is not China but big-money investors — from capital investment funds to tech billionaires, sports celebrities and churches — that are pushing ownership out of reach of Iowa farmers.
- Des Moines Register
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23 April 2024
The group, which has a dairy joint venture with Israel's LR Group, says it intends to increase its dairy capacity and invest in a 3,000-hectare property in Mindoro to "plant corn for cows" and for other purposes.
- Manila Times
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22 April 2024
With the new injection of funds, HAGL intends to expand its total plantation area to 25,000 hectares for bananas, durian and other economically valuable crops across Việt Nam, Laos and Cambodia.
Lord Leverhulme’s 1911 concession in the Congo, is now held by an African-run New York-based private equity firm with strong links to global philanthropy.
- African Arguments
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21 April 2024
Pakistan has offered Saudi Arabia a cattle farm in Punjab for 30,000 animals and 50,000 acres of land on lease for corporate farming, with reports that a deal with the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC) could be signed next week when Pakistan's PM visits the Kingdom
The government has indicated a 22% return on the investment in corporate farming with a payback period of only six years, said the sources. The sources said that due to the lack of availability of water corporate farming cannot begin for at least one and a half years.
Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), the largest foreign institutional investor in Australian agriculture, has acquired more than 8,000 hectares of farmland in New South Wales from Duxton Farms for A$70m.
- IPE Real Assets
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18 April 2024
The US food and drink giant PepsiCo has been linked through its supply chain to Amazon deforestation and the invasion of Indigenous lands in Peru, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), Mongabay and Peruvian outlet Ojo Público can reveal.
This LDPI Working Paper Series includes work in progress presented at the 2024 Global Land Grabbing Conference in Bogotá, addressing urgent challenges related to land, water, and natural resource grabbing.
- Agrarian Conversations
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17 April 2024
The world's biggest cotton certification scheme is giving the green light to clothes made from cotton farmed on mega estates ‘plundering’ the Cerrado.
In a fresh push to have the lands reverted to local communities, Henry Belsoi, a resident of Chesoen in Bomet Central said the leases held by Unilever and other multinational tea companies should have ended after the declaration of independence in 1963.
- The Standard
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15 April 2024
Over 500 land parcels spanning 4,885 hectares — the size of nearly 6,000 football fields — across 10 states have been approved for tree plantation ever since the Green Credit Programme kicked off in the country.
- Times of India
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12 April 2024
A recent gathering in Colombia, organized by the Land Deal Politics Initiative, was an important moment to assess the current state of play and ready strategies to face the current and impending onslaught of land grabs.
- Salena Tramel
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11 April 2024