Tanmiah operates 93 farms as well as 6 hatcheries, 2 feed mills, 4 slaughterhouses, 3 food processing plants, and 13 dry and cold storage facilities located in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE.
- Globe Newswire
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06 July 2022
A new law that prohibits foreign businesses from buying and owning state farmland places Indiana among the states that have enacted such statutes to ensure Americans have enough to eat.
- Indiana Lawyer
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22 June 2022
Dewji is talking to funders, including the African Development Bank and Proparco, to raise money for planned investments, which includes developing 30,000 hectares under plantation of sisal.
PSP Investments, one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, to acquire high-quality European agricultural properties, starting with Citri&Co citrus orchards in Spain.
Sudan recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Arab Emirates for a large agricultural project linked by a road to a new port to be built on the Red Sea, the Sudanese Finance Minister said.
Oil palm plantations are expanding rapidly in Brazil, mainly in the Amazonian state of Pará. BBF (Brasil BioFuels), the largest oil palm company in Brazil, stands accused of environmental crimes and violence against indigenous, quilombola and peasant communities such as Virgílio Serrão Sacramento, a community linked to the Small Farmers’ Movement (MPA).
Brasil Bio Fuels, the largest oil palm company in Brazil, stands accused of environmental crimes and violence against indigenous, quilombola and peasant communities such as Virgílio Serrão Sacramento.
The financialization of farmland further cements Alberta's large-scale, export-oriented, energy-, capital-, and emission-intensive production model.
- Parkland Institute
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16 June 2022
Records show that the Campbell potato farming group has transferred more than $13 million worth of farmland to entities tied to Bill Gates, who is reputedly the largest farmland owner in the US.
Open Letter to the RSPO Board of Governors, RSPO Secretariat, Investigation and Monitoring Unit, Human Rights Working Group
- Green Scenery
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30 May 2022
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
The multi-million dollar project would require approximately 600 acres of land, create dozens of jobs and see the importation of 500 pregnant heifers to supply the milk production.
- Guyana Chronicle
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22 May 2022
A net-zero land rush is sweeping the country, and both locals and wealthy “green lairds” are trying to buy in
Okomu Oil, one of the two commercial palm oil producers listed on the Nigeria's stock exchange, is reaping record profits from current rise in the price of palm oil.
Film by Reunion of Episcopal Conferences in West Africa shows how land grabbing and extractivism are depriving communities of their livelihood and making the fight for social justice increasingly urgent.
Last year, the Belgian Hubert Fabri's plantation group Socfin saw its turnover rise sharply to more than 800 million euro. The profit even climbed to 80 million.
Two reports expose Bunge Ltd's ties to deforestation, human rights abuses and land grabbing in Brazil’s sensitive Cerrado region
- Rede Social & FOE US
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03 May 2022
Stop Harvard Land Grabs and the Housing Opportunities Program held a rally in Harvard’s Science Center Plaza Friday to protest the University’s previous farmland investments in Brazil.
- Harvard Crimson
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25 April 2022
A Colombian company co-owned by Miami developer Moishe Mana produces dairy, Tahiti limes, mangoes, oranges, pineapples and corn on 2,471 acres of farms.
- Miami Herald
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24 April 2022
On 21 April 2022, the Court of Appeal of Zambia handed down judgment in the case of Molosoni Chipabwamba and 12 Other displaced village owners v Yssel Enterprises Ltd and 7 Others. It cancelled the Certificate of Title issued to Bills Farm Limited (4th Respondent) following an unlawful conversion of customary land to State land, and ordered that the land already converted to State land reverts to customary tenure.
The digitalisation of information on land and natural resources is exacerbating land grabbing in the remaining agricultural frontiers of Latin America.
Agilis is one of the three multinational companies that have been implicated in the land grabbing scandal which has rendered thousands of smallholder farmers homeless in the Kiryandongo district, Uganda.
- Witness Radio
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15 April 2022
New Guinea, contains the world’s largest planned oil palm plantation. Covering 2,800 square kilometers the Tanah Merah project is nearly the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. However, the true owners of the seven concessions that make up the project remain hidden through a shroud of corporate secrecy.
The farm in Contesti commune has an area of 2,100 ha of land and is the fourth core farm of the publicly trade company, after Rosiori, Videle, and Frumusani.
- Romania Insider
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11 April 2022
The complaint to the OECD lodged by Friends of the Earth was supposed to deal with adverse impacts of three of the bank’s palm oil clients, ranging from human rights and labour rights violations to deforestation
- Milieudefensie
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08 April 2022
In the yesteryears, international investors trooped to the Kenyan lakeside town in search of land to grow flowers but it is no longer the case.
- Daily Nation
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05 April 2022
Created specifically for domestic and offshore institutional investors, the fund has already secured significant cornerstone funding from one of the largest pension funds in Europe
Abu Dhabi-based investment and holding company ADQ acquires fruit company that operates more than 14,000 hectares of farms across Chile, the Philippines, South Africa, Italy, Spain and Argentina
A massive pig breeding and farming operation in Vietnam is set to expand, aided by $26 million in funding recently granted by the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
- Sentient Media
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29 Mar 2022
SOCFIN's subsidiary Okomu Oil Plc has announced changes to the board of directors following the resignation of Dr. Luc Boedt and Mr. Philippe De Traux De Wardin.
- Naira Metrics
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25 Mar 2022