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.

Reportagem do site Salve a Floresta afirma que a chamada sustentabilidade zero, propalada pela Agropalma, não passa de um “embuste por trás da certificação do óleo de palma” da empresa sediada em terras do Pará entre os municípios do Acará e Tailândia numa área de 106 mil – maior do que o tamanho da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e onde estão localizadas terras particulares da família Tabaranã, áreas públicas, quilombolas e indígena.

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.

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.

Pakistan has offered Saudi Arabia a cattle farm in Punjab with 50,000 acres of land on lease for corporate farming

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.

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.

Entretien avec l’ingénieur Ignace Bwaya Biza , consultant à la Confédération paysannes du Congo (COPACO/PRP).

He urged them to take advantage of their status and position in the community to regularly communicate government policies and programmes to their people, mobilize support for new investments, and act as mediators where required to ensure peaceful co-existence between businesses and communities.

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.

El problema comenzó cuando la agroempresa británica Booker Tate puso en marcha el proyecto de desarrollo azucarero de Bibile con el objetivo de establecer una fábrica de caña de azúcar y grandes plantaciones.