US

Australia: Investors pile in for a stake in our biggest beef company
- Queensland Country Life
- 02 Mar 2022
US-based Washington State Investment Board has committed another $A350 million to Queensland-based farm investor Laguna Bay Pastoral Company.
Les banques de développement se retirent sans vergogne d’un accaparement colonial des terres au Congo
- Collective statement
- 28 February 2022
Trente organisations demandent aux gouvernements responsables de la supervision des banques de développement de prendre des mesures pour réparer les préjudices causés aux communautés par leur investissement dans PHC/Feronia.
Canadian pension fund invests in ex-plantation privatizing Hawaii’s water
- The Breach
- 23 February 2022
Canadian fund pours $600 million into farming operation in Maui that threatens water supplies vital to Indigenous farmers
Tova Farms raises $1MM in seed funding for mysterious avocado deal
- Blue Book
- 21 February 2022
Tova Farms, a commercial agricultural firm specializing in avocado owns over 5000 acres of avocado farmland in Tanzania, and has partnership options with importers across 6 countries in Europe.
LACERA buys into TIAA-CREF’s global farmland funds
- IPE
- 09 February 2022
Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) is buying into TIAA-CREF’s global farmland funds with a $456m investment.
Meet the investors behind the PHC oil palm plantations in DRC
- Oakland Institute
- 08 February 2022
As community efforts to reclaim 100,000 ha of their ancestral land are met with violent repression, unlawful arrests, and murder, a new report exposes the financiers profiteering from the plantations in the DR Congo.
Gates Foundation among investors backing troubled DRC palm plantation
- Mongabay
- 08 February 2022
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation along with a number of prominent US university endowments are among the top investors in a troubled set of oil palm plantations in the DRC, according to a report from the Oakland Institute.
African Agriculture Inc: Food security and reforestation on the Sahara Desert
- CNBC Africa
- 26 January 2022
CNBC Africa reports on the US-based company African Agriculture Inc and its relationship with Les Fermes de la Teranga, which took over the lands previously leased to Senhuile, in northern Senegal
Secret Acres: Foreign-owned agricultural land inaccurately tracked by government
- Investigate TV
- 26 January 2022
Despite a federal law requiring foreign transactions of agricultural land be reported to and recorded by the government, the US Department of Agriculture’s database appears to be missing significant acres of land.
Déclaration du Collectif des organisations de la société civile d'Agadez sur les signatures de conventions de partenariat entre les maires des communes rurales d'Ingall et celle d'Aderbissinat avec deux sociétés de droit américain
- Aïr-Info Agadez
- 22 January 2022
Les organisations de la société civile d’Agadez dénoncent les accords signés entre les deux communes au Niger et African Agriculture Inc et son partenaire Agro Industries Corporation
Council urges mayor to pursue leases for East Maui water
- Politics on Maui
- 20 January 2022
A company owned by the Canadian Public Sector Pension Investment Board has maintained a single-minded focus on controlling East Maui water since it bought 41,000 acres of ag land in November 2018.
Beginning farmers, farmers of color outbid as farmland prices soar
- Civil Eats
- 06 January 2022
The pandemic-fueled land rush has brought wealthier buyers to rural areas, making land even harder to access—a crisis that has become especially acute in the Northeast of the US.