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US: Corporations are consolidating water and land rights in the West
- The Counter
- 04 January 2022
With farms, ranches and rural communities facing unprecedented threats, a worrying trend leads to a critical question: Who owns the water?
DRC: An abusive palm oil business is shaming the European development banks
- InfoCongo
- 23 December 2021
The PHC oil palm plantations provide 100 years of lessons about the failures of agricultural, financial and governance systems in a globalized world.
US Agriculture partners with Kempen to exact strategy of SDG farmland fund in the US
- GAI
- 13 December 2021
In April 2021, the Netherlands-based Kempen Capital Management (Kempen) launched the SDG Farmland Fund – a new investment solution to offer institutional investors global access to farmland as an asset class.
Farmland draws investor interest with inflation running hot
- Bloomberg
- 13 December 2021
The inflation wave that’s sweeping through the global economy is playing into a investment niche that a small group of people in finance have spent years developing: farmland.
Gladstone acquires California pistachio orchard for $88 million; portfolio now valued at $1.5 billion
- GAI
- 08 December 2021
Gladstone now holds 111,000 acres in 15 different U.S. states, and 45,000 acre-feet of banked water in California, growing a variety of permanent and annual row crops.
L’eau, bien commun accaparé par la finance
- Reporterre
- 07 December 2021
Le 7 décembre 2020, l’eau entrait à la Bourse de Chicago, ouvrant la voie à la marchandisation de cette ressource vitale. Et surtout à la spéculation.
Rural Funds Management acquires Kaiuroo aggregation from the Rohatyn Group
- GAI
- 07 December 2021
The Rohatyn Group (TRG), a New York-based asset manager with expertise in forestry, agriculture, and emerging markets, announced it had completed the sale of the Kaiuroo aggregation to RFM for an undisclosed sum.
How your 401(k) is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest
- Intercept
- 23 November 2021
The growing financialisation of Brazilian agribusiness is enabling foreign investment in the industry most responsible for deforestation - and land grabbing
Global commodity traders are fuelling land conflicts in Brazil’s Cerrado
- Global Witness
- 23 November 2021
ADM, Bunge and Cargill are dealing in conflict-tainted soy sourced from producers in the Cerrado, and in doing so are contributing to land conflict and alleged human rights abuses, in violation of their responsibilities under UN and OECD human rights standards.
Foreign farmland ownership in the United States
- CRS
- 18 November 2021
New CRS Report shows that foreigners own just under 3% of US farmland, led by Canada (accounting for 30% of foreign holdings), Netherlands (14%), Italy (7%), UK (6%) and Germany (2%).
Interview with Maria Luisa Mendonça
- Free City Radio
- 17 November 2021
Listen to an interview with Maria Luisa Mendonça of Rede Social on US teachers' pension fund TIAA investments in Brazil land grabbing and deforestation.
A giant investment firm paid a university to study one of its biggest assets — farmland
- Illinois Newsroom
- 16 November 2021
In 2013, mammoth US investment company TIAA-CREF gave $5 million to the University of Illinois to fund a research center, branded with the company’s name, that would explore the financial niche of farmland investment.