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U.S. company NCH Capital said on Friday that it has no plans to sell major Russian agricultural producer AgroTerra, after the head of Russia's second-largest bank said it was in talks to buy the firm, which cultivates 265,000 hectares in Russia

Russia's second-largest bank VTB is in talks to buy a major agricultural producer owned by US-based NCH that farms on 290,000 hectares across several regions of Russia.

A Lansing-based organisation that manages employee retirement plans for Michigan local governments is accused of losing $100mn on a coffee plantation venture in Hawaii and fraudulently misleading a lender into contributing $40mn to the project before abandoning it.

El gobierno de EE. UU. anunció un plan para prohibir que inversionistas extranjeros vinculados a países considerados adversarios, principalmente China, compren tierras agrícolas, y evalúa recuperar predios ya vendidos, consolidando la agricultura como un asunto de seguridad nacional.

Large-scale land leases to Gulf and domestic agribusiness investors have undermined rural livelihoods by cutting off grazing routes and limiting access to land, primarily used for cultivating sorghum and other staple food crops, Nisrin Elamin explains.

A venture set up by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management has attracted $200 million in new money for a strategy that targets the restoration of land degraded by farming and deforestation.

Foreign ownership of agricultural land, once a relatively innocuous regulatory area, has come under scrutiny in recent years as state and federal lawmakers have sought to impose tighter restrictions by passing new laws or amending existing ones.

Empresários em posse da área respondem a ações judiciais por sobreposição a territórios indígenas e de comunidade tradicional; SLC assinou contrato para produzir até 2039 na fazenda que engloba a área em disputa

The blank check company registered in the Cayman Islands plans to target businesses within the food production and agribusiness sector, including in land cultivation and aqua culture, in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Chile.

The investment arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints owns farms and orchards in 29 of 50 US states and 10 countries across the Americas, Europe and most recently Australasia.

La situation à la Ferme de la Teranga - 20 000 hectares detenus par la société amércaine African Agriculture Inc - suscite l’indignation générale. Les travailleurs, pour la plupart en contrat à durée indéterminée (CDI), dénoncent des conditions de vie et de travail devenues intenables.

Water resource “hedge funds” and corporate farms are running the desert dry.