Conversations with farmers in the Skagit Valley inspired a Democratic state legislator to propose to bar foreign entities from buying Washington State croplands.
The case is emblematic of the spate of land grabs targeting unallocated public lands throughout the Amazon, where speculators clear and burn the vegetation, then sell the empty land for soy farms.
- Mongabay
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14 February 2023
Michigan State University has signed a letter of intent with African Agriculture Inc. to explore training, research and technology transfer opportunities with farmers and students in Mauritania, West Africa.
- African Agriculture Inc
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13 February 2023
The criminal trial of two community land rights defenders and eight farmers of Nyamuntende Village in Kiryandongo district for allegedly threatening violence against land grabbers’ laborers is set to begin tomorrow.
- Witness Radio
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13 February 2023
Philippines' Board of Investments (BOI) announced it would invite global investors in agriculture and food production sectors to invest in Bukidnon’s 40-hectare Industrial zone.
- Business Mirror
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13 February 2023
Ten years after the signing of their first lease, we interviewed 30 inhabitants about their experiences and opinions concerning the activities of the Italian JTF-Tozzi Green in Madagascar.
- Collectif TANY
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13 February 2023
QI Hang Mubarak is building a large greenhouse complex on 50 hectares and a 100 hectare sunflower farm in the Mubarek district of the Kashkadarya region of Uzbekistan.
- East Fruit
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12 February 2023
Marubeni is partnering with the Philippines government and a construction company owned by the billionaire Consunji family to develop a 10,000 ha tree plantation project in Negros Occidental that it says will produce up to 100,000 tons of carbon credits every year.
With attention centered on the civil war in the country over the last two years, the hunger and health crisis in the Omo Valley caused by the Gibe III Dam and the Kuraz Sugar Development Project has gone ignored.
- Oakland Institute
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08 February 2023
Mission Produce is vertically integrated in Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, and South Africa, and manages over 5,500 hectares of avocados.
- Global Newswire
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07 February 2023
The real threat to our food security, according to researchers, is broader corporate ownership and consolidation of American farmland — including by domestic investors.
A delegation of UAE government and business leaders, including Elite Agro, recently visited Mexico to discuss investments and commercial opportunities in the field of food security