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Australia: Land price push from family or corporate farms
- The Land
- 13 August 2021
CBRE Agribusiness managing director David Goodfellow says large institutional buyers have a head start on family businesses.
Landlords, corporations, still control vast tracts of agricultural lands – farmers
- Bulatlat
- 13 August 2021
In a July 22 statement, KMP released a list of existing landholdings that are still controlled by the Philippines’ richest, based on data they gathered from 2017 to 2021.
Turkey, Sudan vow to boost relations, lift trade volume to $2B
- Daily Sabah
- 13 August 2021
At a bilateral meeting, Sudan and Turkey reiterate the agreement giving Turkish companies an initial 100,000 hectares of lands in Sudan for agricultural projects, with the promise of a further 700,000 hectares.
Golden Veroleum Liberia comes under spotlight again for not living up to MOU
- Independent Probe
- 12 August 2021
New analysis from community exercises indicate palm oil company Golden Veroleum Liberia structurally fails to comply with obligations and commitments from the MOUs signed in 2014 with affected communities. T
Courting justice: when legal challenges to corporate land grabs go wrong
- Political Ecology Network
- 11 August 2021
In July 2021, a French court ruled against a group of Indigenous Bunong farmers from Mondulkiri in Northeastern Cambodia. In light of recent discussions on the potential and constraints of legal activism, we aim here to highlight entrenched structural factors that can hinder communities in legal challenges to corporate land grabs.
On the Colombian plains, a leader stands up for her people against land theft
- Mongabay
- 11 August 2021
Ana Villa has fearlessly confronted agribusiness multinationals and armed groups that have tried to take over the land where rural communities and Indigenous people live in the Colombian plains, including the US corporation Cargill.
Who really benefits from the creation of a land market in Ukraine?
- Oakland Institute
- 06 August 2021
In the country known as the “breadbasket of Europe,” agriculture has been dominated by oligarchs and multinational corporations since the privatization of state-owned land following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Will this change, now that a controversial law to create a land market entered into effect on July 1, 2021?
As House focuses on China, farm groups see other land buyers
- Roll Call
- 05 August 2021
Farmland grabs by US companies and pension funds are being ignored as appropriators prioritise keeping Chinese interests in check, critics say
Bolsonaro's 'land grab' bill passes Brazil's lower house
- Reuters
- 04 August 2021
Brazil's lower house of Congress passed a land bill on Tuesday that is backed by the country's powerful farm sector but that environmentalists say will contribute to deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
Australia: Supercharged ag investors see value in more than farmland
- QCL
- 04 August 2021
Agriculture, long overlooked as a handy defensive investment space by fund managers more interested in infrastructure, commercial real estate and shopping centres, has become the focus of big spending activity of late.
Proterra Investment Partners is selling its Corinella Group farm portfolio
- GAI
- 03 August 2021
Global investment company Proterra Investment Partners is divesting its Australian farm portfolio – the Corinella Group Pty Ltd consisting of 49 farms across southeastern Australia with expectations of fetching A$350 million.
Why UN Food systems summit is irrelevant to Uganda’s smallholder farmers: A case of capitalism pushing the poor away from family land
- Witness Radio
- 03 August 2021
Uganda still grapples with mass forced evictions being aided by international development financiers that are hosted and protected by big nations.