A three-day campaign called “Land Under Siege,” consisting of a teach-in, a Mass. Hall rally and an organiser training event, was organized by Harvard Undergraduates for Environmental Justice.
The group say they are under threat of losing their land, traditions and customs since the arrival of Socfin-KCD, a firm funded by the French company Bollore
Students gathered in front of Harvard’s central administration to urge Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow to divest the University’s $39.2 billion endowment from farmland holdings around the world.
The Russian government has actively supported foreign investment in Siberian agriculture, making 1 million hectares of arable land in the Far Eastern Federal District available to foreign buyers
Two of Washington’s largest tree fruit orchards have been taken over by financial companies, as operators reportedly began to realize the operations would need large capital infusions to renew older orchards and remain competitive.
Sierra Leone's Deputy Minister of Agriculture tells agribusiness lobby that his government is working on a plan to end land disturbances, adding that fees for land leases will be increased in order to lay the long cry of under-payment by land owners to rest.
International Farming Corp., a Kinston-based agricultural investment company, has raised $404 million in a fund to invest in U.S. farmland.
Te Danish company FirstFarms now owns a "land bank" of more than 8,500 hectares of owned land and more than 11,000 hectares in rent contracts.
Report calls on SOCFIN to comply with the request by affected communities and MALOA for a fair, transparent, effective and independent conflict resolution mechanism to review the land lease agreements and find a long-term resolution to the land conflict.
According to the USDA, the following countries are home to the largest holders of US cropland: Canada, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands.
Preah Vihear provincial authorities have requested villagers to stop clearing disputed land and wait for authorities to find a solution according to the “tiger skin formula”, which aims to reduce the impact of economic land concessions.
The deal includes the construction of a new farm project of greenhouse vegetable production over an area of 600 hectares (6 square kilometers) in central Zambia's Mkushi district.