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Lawmakers consider ban on foreign entities buying farmland
- NPR
- 14 February 2023
Conversations with farmers in the Skagit Valley inspired a Democratic state legislator to propose to bar foreign entities from buying Washington State croplands.
The $20m flip: The story of the largest land grab in the Brazilian Amazon
- Mongabay
- 14 February 2023
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.
Michigan State University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources partner with African Agriculture to bring training and expertise to Mauritania, West Africa
- African Agriculture Inc
- 13 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.
Uganda: The criminal trial of two community land rights defenders and eight farmers kicks off tomorrow
- Witness Radio
- 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.
Government to promote Bukidnon as next global food makers hub, says BOI’s Rodolfo
- Business Mirror
- 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.
Protests and discontent of communities affected by the JTF-Tozzi Green project in the Ihorombe region of Madagascar
- Collectif TANY
- 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.
Chinese investors are to build a large greenhouse complex on 50 hectares in Uzbekistan
- East Fruit
- 12 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.
Developing a reforestation carbon credit program, the first such industry-academia-government collaboration the Philippines
- 10 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.
"Development" projects yield starvation and death in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley
- Oakland Institute
- 08 February 2023
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.
Mission Produce partners with ZZ2, Criterion Africa Partners, and Core Fruit with plans to develop over 1,000 hectares of avocados for global distribution
- Global Newswire
- 07 February 2023
Mission Produce is vertically integrated in Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, and South Africa, and manages over 5,500 hectares of avocados.
Congress wants to block foreign qwnership of US farmland. Is this a red herring?
- Ambrook
- 04 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.
Emirati economic delegation led by Al Sayegh visits Mexico to enhance cooperation
- WAM
- 03 February 2023
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

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Lawmakers consider ban on foreign entities buying farmland

The $20m flip: The story of the largest land grab in the Brazilian Amazon

Michigan State University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources partner with African Agriculture to bring training and expertise to Mauritania, West Africa

Uganda: The criminal trial of two community land rights defenders and eight farmers kicks off tomorrow

Government to promote Bukidnon as next global food makers hub, says BOI’s Rodolfo

Protests and discontent of communities affected by the JTF-Tozzi Green project in the Ihorombe region of Madagascar

Chinese investors are to build a large greenhouse complex on 50 hectares in Uzbekistan

Developing a reforestation carbon credit program, the first such industry-academia-government collaboration the Philippines

"Development" projects yield starvation and death in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley

Mission Produce partners with ZZ2, Criterion Africa Partners, and Core Fruit with plans to develop over 1,000 hectares of avocados for global distribution

Congress wants to block foreign qwnership of US farmland. Is this a red herring?

Emirati economic delegation led by Al Sayegh visits Mexico to enhance cooperation

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