US

China is buying up American farms. Washington wants to crack down.
- Politico
- 20 July 2021
Bipartisan pressure is building to stop foreign nationals from purchasing American farm operations and receiving taxpayer subsidies.
LSU AgCenter, African Agriculture Inc. partner for training, tech transfer for Senegal
- LSU
- 13 July 2021
The Louisiana State University's AgCenter has signed a collaborative agreement with African Agriculture Inc. to work at the NY-based company's 62,000-acre "farming complex" in St. Louis, Senegal
European pension managers go big for indoor ag as Equilibrium closes $1.1bn CEA fund
- AgFund News
- 08 July 2021
CEFF II raised $1 billion from a group of institutional investors, mostly pension funds, to invest in high-tech greenhouses, indoor, vertical farms, and other sectors that need controlled environment agriculture facilities.
The financier farmland rush is bad for racial equity and the environment
- Food & Power
- 08 July 2021
Banks, retirement funds, retail investors, boutique asset managers, and even some nonprofits and universities are doubling down on farmland investments, making it increasingly difficult for farmers of color to access land.
As lockdown bites, multinationals resort to the use of herds hired from pastoralists to evict locals off their land
- Witness Radio
- 30 June 2021
As natives continue to resist illegal evictions, multinational companies opt to hire livestock as a new tactic to forcefully evict smallholder farmers from their land.
Kuramo Capital Management embroiled in a legal battle over ownership of PHC Oil palm plantations in the DRC
- Oakland Institute
- 22 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.
A senior lands officer is arrested in connection to the Kiryandongo district land grab
- Witness Radio
- 17 June 2021
The stolen land belonged to families that are part of the 35000 people being forcefully displaced by three multinational companies including Great Seasons SMC Limited, Agilis Partners Limited, and Kiryandongo Sugar Limited.
Stop Harvard Land Grabs Public Forum
- Harvard Stop Land Grabs
- 10 June 2021
On May 3rd, 2021, we gathered with frontline land defenders, researchers, students, alumni, faculty, staff, and community members from around the world to learn about Harvard’s farmland investments and build power.
More women are going to be sexually abused and forced to lose their land to the rich/investors as Uganda goes into a semi lockdown of 42 days
- Witness Radio
- 10 June 2021
Opondo Cathy says agents of the multinational agribusiness company Agilis Partners took advantage of the last lockdown to rape her, torch her house and grab her land.
McDonald's french fries, carrots, onions: all of the foods that come from Bill Gates farmland
- NBC
- 08 June 2021
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.
El acaparamiento global de tierras se pinta de verde
- GRAIN
- 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.
University of Iowa faculty demand TIAA accountability
- The Gazette
- 03 June 2021
Retirement system is largest manager of farmland in the world - that contributes to land-grabbing, deforestation and human rights violations