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How last year’s wildfires reignited a battle over water rights on Maui
- Mother Jones
- 06 September 2024
For more than a century, corporations have controlled the Hawaiian island’s water. That could be changing.
Conservation Resources achieves final close for inaugural farmland fund
- Business Wire
- 04 September 2024
Conservation Resource Partners announced today the closing of its inaugural North American farmland private equity fund. with investment from institutional as well as high net worth investors, from both North America and Europe.
Australian Food & Agriculture sells vast NSW portfolio in $780m deal
- Beef Central
- 02 September 2024
Privately-owned Australian Food & Agriculture Company has sold its 13 New South Wales farms spanning 225,405 ha to NASDAQ-listed Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Corporation for $780 million.
Hedge fund's $100M Arizona farmland buy stirs fears of water grab
- Arizona Daily Star
- 26 August 2024
New York-based hedge fund Water Asset Management LLC spent $100 million to buy farmland and water rights in Western Arizona, stirring concerns about a future “water grab” from that rural area and of corporate control over a major groundwater source.
Africa’s big food opportunity
- CNBC
- 24 August 2024
African Food Security, a New York-based company, says it will grow maize on 305,000 ha in Cameroon and and 335,000 in the DR Congo, with plans to eventually reach 1 million ha in Africa.
The long road to getting land back in Mexico
- Ojalá
- 23 August 2024
San Isidro is not just a land grab case of a company being favored by the state. Here, the death of the people carries the name of a transnational-- Amway.
Koch invests in massive land grab from West African herders
- Exposed
- 21 August 2024
An investment arm of the largest private company in the U.S. — Koch, Inc — is investing in an agricultural business venture that will generate carbon credits while pulling local natural resources from almost 2.9 million hectares of land in West Africa.
Schweppes Zimbabwe to invest US$28 million in citrus farming expansion
- Zimbabwe Mail
- 20 August 2024
The Zimbabwean government has allocated 4,000 hectares of land to Schweppes, where the company plans to cultivate its own citrus.
As investors pay top-dollar for land, farmers are often priced out
- KGOU
- 29 July 2024
Across the US, large investment firms are driving up farmland prices. In many cases, farmland is sold at prices multiple times the regional average. The cost increases have hit young and beginning farmers the hardest.
Farmland LP secures trio of California almond ranch acquisitions including water rights
- GAI
- 29 July 2024
Farmland LP, a California-based investment firm, has announced the acquisition of three properties in Northern California’s Sacramento Delta across 2,625 acres for a combined price tag of $35.6 million.
Land advocates and defenders are meeting in Kampala to discuss ways to strengthen women’s participation in land governance
- Witness Radio
- 29 July 2024
Civil society groups working on land-related issues and women land rights defenders from different communities in Uganda are meeting in Kampala to devise ways to strengthen women’s participation and decision-making in land governance.
Uganda: Sexual violence as a tool to grab land
- Witness Radio
- 03 July 2024
When the industrial agriculture investor Agilis Partners targeted the lands of Kiryandongo for its investments, residents never knew that the company would empoly several tactics to force them out. One of them was sexual violence.