The Anti-Corporate Farming Law was created in 1932 to keep corporations out of North Dakota by preventing them from owning North Dakota farmland. This was to protect local, family farms.
Vidéo produite par la Synaparcam sur les injustices de la Socapalm, filiale du groupe Socfin/Bolloré
The project aims to develop local agriculture and agroindustry in the area and provide greater agricultural employment utilizing Israeli agricultural models which can be replicated in other regions and countries.
En Mai 2022, des riverains, activistes, et défendeurs des terres et des droits humains venant de l’Afrique de l’Ouest et de l’Afrique Centrale se sont réunis à Aboisso en Côte d’ivoire pour lutter contre les monocultures industrielles.
In May 2022, community members, activists, and land and human rights defenders from West and Central Africa gathered in Aboisso, Côte d'Ivoire for a meeting of an informal alliance formed to fight against industrial monocultures.
The West African nation will let communities veto mining, farming and industrial projects. Activists say the legislation is a progressive landmark. At least one investor calls it unworkable.
Le 1er août 2022, les habitants du village Mbonjo, à l’initiative de la Synergie nationale des paysans et riverains du Cameroun (Synapacam), se sont mobilisés pour contester l’occupation de leurs sites sacrés.
Foreign investors in Australian rural property now pay up to $1 million in fees when applying to buy farmland or commercial agribusiness assets.
Federal Law n° 14,130/2021: Investment Funds in Agro-industrial Production Chains allows foreign investors to participate in the land market without having property or domain over rural lands.
The World Bank’s private sector arm approved a US$200M loan to agribusiness giant Louis Dreyfus Company under the guise of “sustainable development.
Comprising 38 organic, traditional, horticultural, and broadacre cropping farms, the Lake Boga assets are situated between Lake Boga and Kerang in northern Victoria.
Voters will decide whether to create a new government entity to take back control of water held by one of Hawaii’s most powerful agribusiness corporations and a Canadian pension fund.
An official of the giant oil palm company, Socfin, says the new Customary Land Rights Bill which is before Parliament, will make foreign investment in agriculture totally impossible when it becomes fully operational.
Stanbic Bank has received the nod to proceed with a piecemeal auction of assets of one of Kenya’s largest flower farms, Karuturi Limited to recover a Sh1.6 billion debt.
OPEC Fund for International Development has signed a $30m loan agreement under its Food Security Action Plan with Banco Sudameris with 40 percent to be allocated to farmers and agribusinesses in Paraguay.
