Globe-trotting billionaire Mo Dewji made a fortune in East Africa selling palm oil, rope, and soda. Now he says he's trying to acquire 100,000 ha in Rufiji and another part of Tanzania for sugarcane and cereal plantations.
After the Ondo State government allocated SAO Agro thousands of hectares in the Oluwa Forest Reserve for an oil palm plantation, it moved into the forest with full force and left trails of blood and devastation.
Las tierras de cultivo en Estados Unidos se han revalorizado a un ritmo medio del 12,56% anual, cuadruplicando el valor medio de la propiedad entre los años 2000 y 2023. En respuesta, el Senado aprobó medida que regula inversiones extrangeras inmobiliarias y les deja potestad para prohibirlas.
Grimmway’s owner is backed by pension funds including the public employees of the states of Maine and Oregon, Texas teachers, the New York state Teamsters union and the Producer-Writers Guild of America.
To give a wider swath of investors access to farmland as an asset class, Nuveen Natural Capital is opening its Global Farmland Strategy to qualified retail investors through an evergreen private-market fund.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Anuradha Mittal, Founder and Executive Director of The Oakland Institute, which has reported on the IMF and World Bank’s carving up of Ukrainian farmland and the myths about the Black Sea Grain Deal
- Going Underground
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01 August 2023
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t work the land on his Hawaii ranch, but he and other wealthy landowners still benefit from huge agricultural tax breaks.
A call against land grabbing and exploitation and for democracy, fair land distribution and an ecology of radical care.
- Mondiaal Nieuws
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13 May 2023
On the Canadian prairies, some worry about a future where two or three massive farms, or investors, control most of the land in a municipality.
- Western Producer
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11 May 2023
In the face of increased land grabbing and speculation, the European Commission must put a common land governance framework on the political agenda in coming months to ensure a future for farmers and protect the well-being of citizens.
- EU Observer
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14 April 2023
‘Non-traditional’ farmland buyers help drive up prices, highlighting tight land supplies across Canada
- Alberta Farm Express
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04 April 2023
The real threat to our food security, according to researchers, is broader corporate ownership and consolidation of American farmland — including by domestic investors.
Minister said Ghana has 40,000 hectares of land readily available to support large scale rice production and encouraged delegates from the Thai company Jospong Group to take advantage of it.
- Business Ghana
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03 January 2023
We depend on land for food, shelter and work, it’s a cultural marker and a source of identity – but also a site of violence and anguish. It’s time for a reckoning.
- New Internationalist
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24 October 2022
As the climate emergency gets more acute and devastating everyday, we can’t waste more time waiting for the decisive actions required to end the ravages caused by industrial agriculture in Brazil.
- Oakland Institute
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01 September 2022
Land ownership concentration and big money are forcing farmers to clear their lands in order to keep up in the Canada's Saskatchewan Province.
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".
- eghtesadnews
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04 July 2022
The resistance processes of the communities of La Chiquita, Guadualito and Barranquilla de San Javier in the region of Esmeraldas continue to generate outrage and solidarity among other communities, and internationally.
The expansion of industrial agriculture in Brazil has been an international affair, linking pension funds, university endowments, and major financial actors across the world.
- Phenomenal World
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28 May 2022
In order to attract capital, selected regions for development projects must dramatize their potential as places for investment, carefully selecting project locations and participants who will make compromises so as to conceal failure, virtually guaranteeing that the programme will be declared a success when the time comes for evaluation.
- The Elephant
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26 November 2021
Institutional investors and foreign countries alike increasingly see U.S. farmland as a sound investment, raising concerns.
- Progressive Farmer
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01 November 2021
The EU is trying to move soya production from Brazil to eastern Europe where big conglomerates are buying up fertile land in the country, depleting soils, planting illegal GMOs and polluting fresh water sources.
- Open Democracy
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14 October 2021
Whether foreigners should be allowed to buy land is one of the bones of contention surrounding the reform, with more than 80 percent of Ukrainians opposed to it.
The United Arab Emirates has expressed interest in investing in Indonesia's farming sector, specifically sugarcane plantations, says the secretary general of the Agriculture Ministry.
Flooded farms, land grabs, and production costs are driving Lao villagers from their land to seek work in the cities.
The village in Guatemala is surrounded by oil palm plantations belonging to the HAME Group but residents feel none of the benefits
- China Dialogue
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25 June 2021
The joint venture by Wilmar, Josovina Commodities and Bidco Africa Ltd is establishing its second palm oil project on Buvuma Island and targets to have 1,000ha under trees this year and 5,000ha in four years
- Food Business Africa
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09 Mar 2021
About 66 per cent of conflicts related to palm oil in West Kalimantan in the last two decades have yet to be resolved, according to a report recently issued by the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV).
In Colombia, big agribusinesses, cattle ranchers, transnational corporations, and wealthy landowners have been able to claim land that is not theirs by acquiring titles through a legal system farming families have no access to.
- Labour Notes
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08 January 2021
The industry boom in the demand for palm oil has come at the high price of rainforest destruction, labour exploitation, and brutal land and water grabbing. The pressure from oil palm plantations has pushed communities in West Borneo on a common struggle to access clean water and continue producing food.
- ECOTON, GEMAWAN, GRAIN, KRUHA
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04 December 2020