Foreign ownership of American land has gained a lot of buzz lately, but senior staff attorney and professor with the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School, Fran Miller says more attention should go to domestic corporate ownership.
An Australian management fund has nabbed another slice of historic Tasmanian farmland from billionaire Chinese businessman Xianfeng Lu and his troubled dairy company.
The remaining land assets of what used to be PKB Corporation is being sold to a new company owned by the Serbian state
In a move to bolster Bahrain’s agri-food sector and address food security challenges, Mumtalakat, the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, yesterday announced the establishment of the Bahrain Food Holding Company.
- Gulf Daily News
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24 Mar 2024
Forest Peoples Programme strongly rejects the defamatory and false information that has been spread by the palm oil company Ocho Sur and subsequently by the Peruvian media about our organisation and our Peruvian partner organisation, the Instituto de Defensa Legal.
- Forest Peoples Programme
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21 Mar 2024
Defence Front for the Interests of Santa Clara de Uchunya condemn the smear campaign of the company Ocho Sur and demand its withdrawal from their ancestral territory
Los Angeles-based Aliment Capital has invested in US-based, Agrovision which has large-scale berry and grape plantations in Peru, Mexico, Morocco and the US.
The integration of the Land Matrix and Orbis datasets has given rise to an enriched data ecosystem, offering unprecedented insights into the characteristics of current land investors.
Witness Radio has documented 181 cases of arbitrary arrests, detentions, imprisonments, disappearances, and other retaliatory attacks, highlighting a concerning trend in Uganda’s agricultural sector, which is marked by a significant increase in violent and retaliatory attacks and detentions.
- Witness Radio
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19 Mar 2024
The International Conference on Global Land Grabbing in Bogotá this week is a step towards strengthening alliances across social justice movements.
- Common Dreams
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19 Mar 2024
In Kenya’s lush Thika region, stealing pineapples is a de facto capital crime. At least nine men have allegedly been killed by security guards employed by Del Monte, the world’s largest producer of pineapples.
Haishan Group, a private Beijing-based construction firm with farming operations in Angola, has announced its involvement in the construction of a 300-hectare real estate and fishery industrial park featuring aquaculture, seafood processing, and feed production facilities.
- Seafood Source
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18 Mar 2024