Colonialism revamped in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- African Arguments
- 21 April 2024
Lord Leverhulme’s 1911 concession in the Congo, is now held by an African-run New York-based private equity firm with strong links to global philanthropy.
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Legal battles escalate between shareholders of PHC oil palm plantations in DRC
- Oakland Institute
- 01 Mar 2024
While top executives stand accused of multimillion dollar fraud, communities living near the plantations suffer from being deprived of their lands and violent harassment by PHC’s security forces.
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Agricultural land is becoming an investment vehicle for the rich
- Jacobin
- 25 June 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.
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Food security concerns put Florida at the forefront of foreign farmland ownership fight
- The Capitolist
- 12 Mar 2023
Recent farmland purchases by Chinese, Middle Eastern, and other foreign government investors have raised concerns about food exports being prioritized over domestic consumption.
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New report highlights black farmer land loss and discrimination in Mississippi Delta
- NFFC
- 06 Mar 2023
The report details corporate land investments in the Mississippi Delta region, and ways that the growth of speculative farmland ownership exacerbates barriers that farmers face accessing and maintaining land in the region.
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Sarah Vogel investigates Bill Gates’ North Dakota land purchase
- HPR
- 17 August 2022
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.
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Commodity or commons: Finance capital and the commodification of land
- Agrarian Trust
- 13 July 2022
The most effective means of countering corporate power is to restore control of the land and agricultural knowledge to the communities who live on and with the land.
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Bill Gates acquiert pour 13,5 millions de dollars de terres agricoles dans le Dakota du Nord: les habitants sont furieux
- Epoch Times
- 02 July 2022
La vente de plus de 850 ha de terres agricoles dans le Dakota du Nord à une société en lien avec Bill Gates, la quatrième fortune mondiale et le premier propriétaire privé de terres agricoles des États-Unis, n’a pas manqué d’attirer l’attention du procureur général du Dakota.
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Bill Gates North Dakota land purchase to go through
- Tri-State Livestock
- 01 July 2022
The North Dakota Attorney General has approved the sale and continued farming of about 2,100 acres of North Dakota farmland to a trust reportedly connected to billionaire Bill Gates.
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Indignación en un estado de EEUU con Bill Gates
- AS
- 30 June 2022
Las leyes de Dakota del Norte prohíben a las empresas desarrollar actividades agrícolas. Bill Gates habría comprado tierras a través de una empresa asociada al magnate
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North Dakota Attorney General's Office looks into Bill Gates-related farmland sale
- Ag Week
- 22 June 2022
A company associated with billionaire Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates purchased $13.5 million worth of North Dakota farmland. Now the state's attorney general wants to make sure that sale followed the state's corporate farming law.
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Entity linked to billionaire Bill Gates pays $13.5 million for Campbell Farms' North Dakota farmland
- AgWeek
- 09 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.
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