Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains
- JPS
- 24 September 2014
Land is becoming increasingly more coveted by transnational agribusiness and financial investors.
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Capital Alternatives and Capital Carbon Credits taken to the High Court by the Financial Conduct Authority
- redd-monitor
- 01 August 2013
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has taken Sierra Leone farmland investor Capital Alternatives to the High Court for “promoting and/or operating collective investment schemes (CISs) in the UK illegally and without our authorisation”.
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The financial risks of insecure land tenure: an investment view
- RRI
- 31 January 2013
The potential for bottom-line financial damage from insecure land tenure risk range from massively increased operating costs – as much as 29 times over a normal baseline scenario, according to our modeling – to outright abandonment of an up-and-running operation.
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‘It’s time to fill the financial vacuum’
- Saudi Gazette
- 05 February 2009
In an exclusive telephone interview during her visit to Riyadh on Tuesday, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo focused on measures by her country to strengthen economic ties with the Kingdom.
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Digital fences: the financial enclosure of farmlands in South America
- grain.org
- 25 September 2020
A real financialisation of land, natural resources and the agri-food system is underway throughout South America. In the context of the multiple global crises, the pressure on the control of land and other resources of interest has increased considerably, either for productive use or as financial assets. To this end, the digitisation of land governance and the georeferencing technology that supports it are serving to disguise a massive digital land grab.
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The Daewoo-Madagascar land grab, 10 years on
- GRAIN and the Collective for the Defence of Malagasy Lands
- 16 November 2018
On 18 November 2008, The Financial Times exposed a massive deal being negotiated between Daewoo Logistics and the government of Madagascar. Ten years later, what are we seeing?
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Robin Palmer: The original land campaigner and scholar activist
- The Independent
- 31 Mar 2023
Palmer was central to the debate on “land grabbing” that followed the financial, food and energy crises of 2007-08. He passed away on February 19, 2023.
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The global farmland grab by pension funds needs to stop
- GRAIN
- 13 November 2018
Money from pension funds has fuelled the financial sector's massive move into farmland investing over the past decade. The number of pension funds involved in farmland investment and the amount of money they are deploying into it is increasing, under the radar.
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The challenge of unearthing global capital
- Money Management
- 09 April 2009
The agribusiness managed investment scheme sector is not expected to escape the economic downturn that has hit the financial services industry.
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Fix the land deals
- FT
- 26 May 2009
Food commodity prices remain near historic highs. Food riots destablised countries around the world last year – more than the financial crisis – and may well return. If food was ever a soft policy issue before, it now rivals oil as a basis of power and economic security.
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Under guise of climate action, the World Bank launches fresh offensive on land rights
- Oakland Institute
- 01 May 2025
Ahead of the World Bank’s 2025 Land Conference starting on May 5th in Washington D.C., a new Oakland Institute report exposes how the financial institution is using the pretext of climate crisis to push a global land “reform” agenda that favors corporate interests at the expense of people and the planet.
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Land Grabs and the World Bank
- World Press
- 16 November 2011
Since the financial and food crises of 2008, the World Bank Group has incentivized and facilitated land grabs in several countries in Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia.
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Land grabs: governments seeking food security sow the seeds of discontent
- DOMEdigita
- 18 July 2022
There will be plenty more scuffles between local populations and new global landlords. But, according to the Financial Times, such fights are unlikely to stem the tide of land investment.
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EBRD leads the way for foreign equity investment into Kazakh agriculture
- The Financial
- 29 Mar 2012
The EBRD makes a US$45 million equity investment in KazExportAstyk, which controls 1m hectares of agricultural land in Kazakhstan – an area about the size of Denmark.
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Financial crisis paralyses flower farm operations
- The People
- 08 August 2013
Operations at Karuturi flower farm in Naivasha, Kenya, have been paralyzed due to a financial crisis.
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Roman Rosslenbroich: Way ahead of the alternatives crowd
- Financial Times
- 02 May 2010
Mr Rosslenbroich is particularly enthusiastic about agriculture, where he says Aquila has “teams travelling the world looking for farms”, with New Zealand dairy farms a speciality.
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Wish you weren't here: The devastating effects of the new colonialists
- The Independent
- 09 August 2009
A new breed of colonialism is rampaging across the world, with rich nations buying up the natural resources of developing countries that can ill afford to sell. Some staggering deals have already been done, but angry locals are now trying to stop the landgrabs
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The global land grab: The new enclosures
- Wealth of the Commons
- 09 May 2013
Everywhere in Africa the story is more or less the same: communal rights are being grossly interfered with, farming systems upturned, livelihoods decimated, and water use and environments changed in ways which are dubiously sustainable.
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The global land grab: The new enclosures
- Wealth of the Commons
- 23 October 2012
Only legal recognition of commons as the communal property of communities is sufficient to afford real protection, writes Liz Alden Wily
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The Endowment and Africa: HMC should disavow investments that disenfranchise the world’s poor
- The Crimson
- 30 September 2011
At the current stage, we do not have adequately available evidence to consider either HMC or Emergent at fault for the purported economic wrongdoings outlined in the Oakland Institute report.
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The GCC stocks the larder against future food crisis
- The National
- 11 July 2010
The GCC states are rapidly pursuing contracts for the purchase of land from eastern Africa to Vietnam to guarantee ample food supplies
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Arrival of colonialism of the third kind
- The Daily Sun Star (Dhaka)
- 17 Mar 2009
The truth is that if exploitation of a developing country’s natural resources by the West is colonialism, so it is when rich countries of the South do the same.
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Arizona communities sink after Saudi Arabia pumps water out of the state: ‘It’s horrific’
- The Cool Down
- 27 February 2024
“The Emiratis are farming and have withdrawn so much water from the ground that the entire town of Wenden has sunk by four feet,”
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The weakest should not bear the risk
- Bread for the World
- 04 September 2016
Holding the Development Finance Institutions responsible when private sector projects fail. The case of Addax Bioethanol in Sierra Leone.
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Barnaby Joyce draws line in the soil on foreign farm buyers
- The Australian
- 15 June 2015
Australian Ag Minister supports banning all foreign governments and foreign state-owned companies from buying Australian farmland, saying such acquisitions could “undermine the national interest”.
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Tanzania: Farmers want a piece of the pie from agro-investors
- The Citizen
- 25 August 2010
As large-scale investors' interest in acquiring vast swathes of land for commercial agriculture in Africa intensifies, farmers believe the time is ripe for the government to press investors to allocate shares to villagers as a corporate social responsibility.
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Land-grabbing and the financialization of agricultural land
- LeftEast
- 30 May 2018
On the occasion of the publication of Transnational Corporations and Land Speculation in Brazil, Mary Taylor of LeftEast spoke with Fábio Pitta, Devlin Kuyek and Attila Szőcs about the broader implications of the report's findings.
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How financialisation influences the dynamics in the food supply chain
- SOMO
- 26 September 2014
Discussion paper for the workshop ‘Mapping the State of Play on the Global Food Landscape’ Waterloo, 25-27 September 2014.
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NGOs target financial investment in farmland
- Triple Crisis
- 11 June 2013
While NGO pressure has had some impact on speculative investments in agricultural commodities, financial institutions still seem to be very attached to their farmland investments.
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UN debate on excessive food and commodity price volatility; call for regulating price speculation in the futures market
- TWN
- 17 April 2012
The G77 and China have alerted the UN General Assembly to the emerging trend of “massive acquisition by large investors from developed countries of farm land in developing countries”. The farm land is being bought not for food security, but for the speculative purpose of future agricultural production, which thus creates a significant added burden to food insecurity globally.
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