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Private equity backed US peach farm files for bankruptcy to pursue sale
- Reuters
- 13 October 2023
Four years after a private equity firm merged two of the nation’s largest peach farmers into a single entity, the firm is basically worthless.
Santa Barbara board upholds rejection of reservoir construction project on former HMC Holdings
- Harvard Crimson
- 12 October 2023
A California county board of supervisors voted to uphold a decision rejecting a project to construct three water storage reservoirs on former Harvard University land holdings in central California.
Québec : Un accaparement de terres agricoles dénoncé dans La Mitis
- Radio Canada
- 11 October 2023
Une poignée d’investisseurs et d’entreprises agricoles auraient acquis plusieurs terres agricoles dans La Mitis sans pour autant les exploiter
Harvard’s water grab denied in California
- Stop Harvard Land Grabs
- 11 October 2023
Stop Harvard Land Grabs continues to demand that Harvard give full transparency about its land investments, return land back to communities, pay reparations, and adopt a policy against future farmland investments.
France : La razzia sur les terres agricoles des maraîchers industriels nantais
- Reporterre
- 10 October 2023
Des gros producteurs de légumes étendent leurs domaines en Loire-Atlantique. Ce faisant, ils détériorent en profondeur les paysages et les écosystèmes, dénoncent élus, riverains, petits maraîchers et associations
Indonesian police slammed after protester demanding rightful land is shot dead
- Mongabay
- 10 October 2023
Activists have slammed the Indonesian police for rights violations after officers reportedly shot dead a villager and injured at least two others during a protest against an oil palm plantation company in Borneo.
Invitation to Saudi company to invest in corporate farming pick up pace
- Profit
- 10 October 2023
The Special Investment Facilitation Center has asked the Ministry of National Food Security and Research for an update on the invitation sent to the Almarai company of Saudi Arabia to invest in farming in Pakistan.
Land grabs in Sri Lanka and the struggles in Udugama and Bibele
- La Via Campesina
- 09 October 2023
A video produced by War on Want shows how the villagers of Udugama are under threat as the oil palm plantation company Watawata Plantations destroys their forests and access to water.
Plan to bring Mennonite farmers to Suriname sparks deforestation fears
- Mongabay
- 09 October 2023
farming communities from across Latin America to Suriname with the plan of starting a series of agriculture projects.
Farmland for farmers, not farmland for hedge funds
- Heritage Radio Network
- 06 October 2023
In the US, the National Family Farm Coalition is advocating for the Farmland For Farmers Act introduced by Senator Cory Booker in July of this year.
Liberia: Affected women plead for gov’t protection against mining companies
- Liberian Observer
- 06 October 2023
A statement by women from several counties in Liberia denounces mining and agricultural companies like Golden Veroleum for depriving women of their lands for farming.
Supreme Court cancels pre-arrest bail to director of firm accused of cheating African country
- Lawbeat Newsdesk
- 06 October 2023
The Supreme Court of India has cancelled anticipatory bail granted to Ram Karuturi who is accused of defaulting on a US$6.5 million loan taken in 2011 from the government of Djibouti to develop 15,000 ha of agricultural land