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Foreign investment in U.S. cropland nearly tripled in past decade, USDA data shows
- Investigate Midwest
- 19 April 2022
The total cropland controlled by foreign interests in 2020 was 10.9 million acres, up from 4.1 million acres in 2010.
Get big or get out: Trying to survive in Australia's agriculture industry
- SBS
- 19 April 2022
Young people are moving away, foreign and domestic investors are moving in and smaller farms are being swallowed up.
Sierra Leone: 1,475 MALOA members sign petition objecting to the RSPO certification of SOCFIN
- Green Scenery
- 19 April 2022
The Malen Affected Land Owners and Users Association has submitted a petition signed by 1,475 of its members objecting to the certification of SOCFIN by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
Signs of harmful projects with financing from development institutions are spotted in Uganda
- Witness Radio
- 19 April 2022
Witness Radio surveyed some projects in Uganda funded by development banks and found agony, illegal evictions, abject poverty, environmental degradation, and loss of life among others.
Turkey’s ambitious project in Sudan turns into a fiasco
- Nordic Monitor
- 17 April 2022
Turkey has been planning since 2014 to meet a significant portion of its food needs by cultivating farmland leased in Sudan but lands have yet to be allocated and there are no staff working at the project's agricultural company.
Ecuadorean blueberry investment fund
- Aviation Analysis
- 17 April 2022
The first “Ecuadorian Fruits and Vegetables Export Investment Fund” for local and foreign investors has begun with 10 hectares planted in the canton of Batat.
Belgian farmers outraged at ‘systematic’ farmland acquisition by Colruyt
- Brussles Times
- 16 April 2022
Around 150 farmers demonstrated in the Flemish-Brabant city of Halle against the supermarket chain Colruyt, which they claim is buying up too much farmland in Belgium.
Congo, Rwanda sign agricultural land concession agreement
- FRA
- 16 April 2022
According to the inked deal, Congo will grant Rwanda 12,000 hectares of exploitable land in at least three Departments in the south of the country.
Afghan gov't inaugurates major agro project in eastern Laghman province
- Xinhua
- 15 April 2022
The Taliban-run administration inaugurates a US$230M agricultural project covering 20,000 hectares in the eastern Laghman province that will be a joint venture with the private sector and will produce for export.
African Agriculture Inc: Working to boost food security, protect environment
- Vanguard
- 15 April 2022
African Agriculture Inc’s vision, according to Gora Seck, President of the Board, LFT Senegal, is to create 5,000 jobs, sow over 20,000 hectares and develop exports of alfalfa to other countries.
The digitalisation of land: more data, less land
- GRAIN
- 15 April 2022
The digitalisation of information on land and natural resources is exacerbating land grabbing in the remaining agricultural frontiers of Latin America.
A land grab case against Agilis Ranch 20 and 21 Limited kicks off next week
- Witness Radio
- 15 April 2022
Agilis is one of the three multinational companies that have been implicated in the land grabbing scandal which has rendered thousands of smallholder farmers homeless in the Kiryandongo district, Uganda.