Elara India Opportunities Fund, which Indian lawmakers suspect may be linked to Gautami Adani, was the largest foreign shareholder in Karuturi Global Ltd, owning 3.25% of the company in 2018.
New factsheet from ActNowPNG breaks down 6 myths used to justify the privatisation of customary land, showing how it's not about development but about profits for corporations
Why do peasant farmers lose out when they produce for the palm oil industry? A publication based on experiences from Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.
Global AgInvesting held its 13th annual gathering in the US with a special optional golf tournament at the exclusive Sleepy Hollow Country Club, bringing together ag investors, asset managers and agribusiness executives.
In this short paper, we discuss the various ways in which scholars and activists of the global food economy/regime/system examine the relationships among producers, the state and capital.
For too long, consumer brands have sourced raw materials from abusive companies. We’ve seen up close the damage this has caused in Cambodia, and how elusive remedy has been for affected communities. But with mandatory due diligence laws on the horizon in Europe, communities will finally have the opportunity to hold brands accountable for violations in their supply chains.
- Business and Human Rights Research Centre
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24 June 2021
After acquiring majority ownership in the PHC plantations from European development banks in 2020, former partners have turned on each other with legal action underway across four jurisdictions for control of the company, valued at US$100 million.
- Oakland Institute
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22 June 2021
Newly announced foreign investments in agriculture from Dutch, Turkish and Arab companies includes a $273 million, 400,000 sow per year pig farm and meat processing plant in East Kazakhstan.
- Astana Times
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19 June 2021
Congo's Senate on Tuesday rejected a request by prosecutors to lift former Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon's immunity so they could indict him for his role in a failed agriculture project in which investigators say $200 million disappeared.
The victory is a result of the organization of the Collective of Communities Impacted by Agribusiness, created by rural communities in the Cerrado region of Piauí to resist land grabbing and the advance of agribusiness monocultures.
Gates does not appear to count his farming investments as the largest farmland owner in the US as part of his broader strategy to save the climate.
China is one of the world's largest consumers of agricultural commodities such as soy and palm oil that drive deforestation globally. But it isn’t just Chinese consumption of these commodities that is helping fuel forest destruction. Global Witness new analysis sheds a spotlight on the often-overlooked role of Chinese banks as some of the biggest global financiers of deforestation.
- Global Witness
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07 June 2021
Quienes actualmente controlan los flujos financieros del mundo no son capaces de apoyar a los productores de alimentos y a los sistemas alimentarios —que pueden combatir la crisis climática o las muchas otras crisis que afectan a la alimentación y a la agricultura. Nuestro desafío es lograr que tanto las tierras agrícolas como el dinero no sigan en sus manos, tan pronto como podamos.
Retirement system is largest manager of farmland in the world - that contributes to land-grabbing, deforestation and human rights violations
World Bank's regional director says opening up the land market will provide "endless opportunities for Ukraine" and promises farmers "World Bank loans worth millions of dollars" if a bill to establish an agriculture fund is adopted.
New information indicates that Feronia's $15 million rice operations were taken over by a politically connected Belgian-Congolese businessman when they mysteriously vanished from the company's books in 2017.
PSP, one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, now adds a further 40,000 hectares to its large farmland holdings in New South Wales.
Carbon credits and net-zero pledges are fuelling a new round of farmland buying by billionaires and pension funds that will undermine real climate action.
The government of Madagascar has earmarked 4 million hectares for agropoles while at the same time pursuing a 60,000 ha land loan to Elite Agro LLC and revising the land law in favour of investors
- CRAAD-OI and TANY
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29 April 2021
The University of Iowa Faculty Senate voted 42 to 7 to pass a resolution calling on the university to hold the financial services provider TIAA accountable for its investments in global farmland.
- ActionAidUSA
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28 April 2021
Outrage over a mass displacement for a dairy farm has seized the national conversation in Zimbabwe, where it is impossible to talk about land without interrogating the legacy of colonialism and the present reality of anti-Blackness
Australian farmland is an appealing asset class to Canadian-backed investment group, Warakirri Asset Management, with the firm having launched a new fund which expects to raise $500 million.
Chinese dairy company engaged in alfalfa growing, dairy farming, milk processing, and marketing will use KKR funds to construct more dairy farms and import Australian dairy cows.
- Business Wire
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18 April 2021
Fonterra has completed the sale of its two wholly owned farming hubs in China where it will now focus on creating value from its New Zealand farmers’ milk
- The Cattle Site
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08 April 2021
Report finds the Canadian based pension plan is not living up to its own environmental, social responsibility, and corporate governance principles, resulting in adverse impacts on Maui’s environment and residents.
- Responsible Markets
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06 April 2021
A new report by Chain Reaction Research presents data on specific actors linked to Cerrado deforestation in 2020, including the quantified risk exposure of the largest soy traders, meatpackers, and retailers.
The Public Investment Fund has transferred its ownership stakes in Almarai, the National Agricultural Development Company, and the Saudi Fisheries Company to the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC).
Resolution adopted by the Professional Staff Congress, a union that represents 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York and the CUNY Research Foundation.
Nuveen's head of sustainability will support Westchester's response to rising investor demand for carbon neutral portfolios, providing scalable, natural solutions to counter climate change through farmland investments.
- Financial Standard
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23 Mar 2021
A new report from the Oakland Institute, reveals that several well-known pension funds, trusts and endowments are invested in a group of oil palm plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo accused of environmental and human rights abuses.