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Turkey plans to secure food supplies via Sudan, despite previous failure
- Quartz
- 05 July 2022
Turkey is revisiting a plan it started in 2016 but failed to execute leasing farmland in Sudan to grow sufficient food for home consumption and export.
PAC : la Cour des comptes européenne inquiète quant aux risques de fraude et d’accaparement illégal des terres
- Euractiv
- 05 July 2022
Selon un nouveau rapport de la Cour des comptes européenne, le manque de contrôle rend le programme de subventions agricoles de l’UE vulnérable aux pratiques frauduleuses telles que l’accaparement illégal de terres.
In 20 anni le multinazionali hanno conquistato terreni grandi tre volte l’Italia
- L'Indipendente
- 05 July 2022
El V° Rapporto I padroni della Terra, redatto da FOCSIV, denuncia le conseguenze dannose di una rischiosa tendenza che invece di rallentare, sembra sia in crescita.
Russia's green light to Iran for extraterritorial cultivation; 100 thousand hectares of land available to Iranian farmers!
- eghtesadnews
- 04 July 2022
In early June of this year, a Russian business delegation during its trip to Iran suggested that Iran acquire more than 100,000 hectares of agricultural land in Russia and carry out "extra-territorial agriculture".
Scotland: Call for a 'public interest test' for big land sales
- Scottish Farmer
- 04 July 2022
Proposal comes as part of recommendations to support land and carbon markets so they work to the public’s benefit, alongside the second part of a major report into Scotland’s changing land market.
Bill Gates acquiert pour 13,5 millions de dollars de terres agricoles dans le Dakota du Nord: les habitants sont furieux
- Epoch Times
- 02 July 2022
La vente de plus de 850 ha de terres agricoles dans le Dakota du Nord à une société en lien avec Bill Gates, la quatrième fortune mondiale et le premier propriétaire privé de terres agricoles des États-Unis, n’a pas manqué d’attirer l’attention du procureur général du Dakota.
World Bank approves $200 million IFC loan for industrial agriculture in Brazil’s Cerrado
- Mongabay
- 01 July 2022
A major loan was approved this week for an industrial food producer operating in Brazil, despite concerns that the money would ultimately fund activities that contribute to deforestation.
Bill Gates North Dakota land purchase to go through
- Tri-State Livestock
- 01 July 2022
The North Dakota Attorney General has approved the sale and continued farming of about 2,100 acres of North Dakota farmland to a trust reportedly connected to billionaire Bill Gates.
Malawi: Agriculture ministry moves in to establish mega farms
- Nyasa Times
- 30 June 2022
So far, the government has made available 5,000 hectares of land at Chimwamkango estate for value crops and 5,000 hectares of land at Dwambazi estate in Nkhotakota for cattle raising
Indignación en un estado de EEUU con Bill Gates
- AS
- 30 June 2022
Las leyes de Dakota del Norte prohíben a las empresas desarrollar actividades agrícolas. Bill Gates habría comprado tierras a través de una empresa asociada al magnate
Le patron de BIO : "Ce que nous faisons n'est pas du néolibéralisme, mais du bon sens"
- Lalibre
- 29 June 2022
Largement mise en cause par un consortium d'ONG, la Société belge d'investissement pour les pays en développement (BIO) défend sa vision de la coopération au développement.
Why does China own so much of Ukraine?
- WSJ
- 29 June 2022
Other countries should be careful about allowing sales of farmland to hostile powers.
Landgrabbing in Deutschland
- Deutschlandfunkkultur
- 29 June 2022
Auch in Deutschland ist Ackerland längst zum Spekulationsobjekt geworden. Die steigenden Bodenpreise sorgen dafür, dass Bauern kaum ein Auskommen haben. Ein Skandal, findet die Autorin Annette Jensen, und fordert eine radikale Bodenreform.
Farmland in Karabakh being given to powerful Azerbaijanis - report
- Eurasianet
- 28 June 2022
A new investigation has found that agricultural firms connected to powerful people, including the first family, were given non-transparent contracts to develop land in Karabakh.
The impact of unimplemented large-scale land development deals
- Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
- 27 June 2022
Article analyses the effects on local actors, their land access, land use and tenure security of a large-scale land deal in northern Laos that a Chinese company initiated but subsequently abandoned.