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Grimmway Farms finds a buyer in Indiana
- Bakersfield
- 29 November 2020
Indiana-based Teays River Investments has agreed to acquire family-owned Grimmway Farms – the self-proclaimed largest carrot producer in the world – for an undisclosed sum.
“A door opener for clean, fair procedures”
- Bread for all
- 26 November 2020
In Liberia, human rights have allegedly been violated on rubber plantations managed from Switzerland. Instead of taking up mediation offers, the Socfin group prefers to act against its critics.
Podcast: Indigenous land rights and the global push for land privatization
- Mongabay
- 25 November 2020
Taking a look at the importance of securing Indigenous communities’ land rights and the global push for privatization that can deprive those communities of access to their land.
Chilean investors mull multimillion-dollar ‘agri’ investment
- Guyana Chronicle
- 24 November 2020
Although discussions are still in the preliminary stages, CEO of Go-Invest, Dr. Peter Ramsaroop, said the Chileans want to invest heavily in large-scale agricultural projects.
A new report reveals land inequality is worse than we thought and is fuelling other inequalities
- ILC
- 24 November 2020
Global inequality experts blame the upward trend of land inequality partly on the increased interest from corporate and financial actors, such as investment funds, in agricultural land investments.
1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland
- Guardian
- 24 November 2020
Researchers find control over the land has become far more concentrated both directly through ownership and indirectly through contract farming, which results in more destructive monocultures and fewer carefully tended smallholdings.
1500 cattle keepers stranded after agricultural company bans grazing on Maruzi ranch
- The Cooperator
- 23 November 2020
In 2019, the government allocated 54 square miles of Maruzi Ranch land to Hillside Agricultural Investment Ltd under a 50-year lease, to be used for the establishment of Palm Oil production.
If TIAA’s Roger Ferguson wants to be Treasury Secretary, he should fix his farmland problem
- NFFC, NAMA, ActionAid
- 20 November 2020
TIAA is unusual among financial firms for its aggressive pursuit of farmland, paving the way for financial wealth controlled by companies and individuals to takeover and dispossess rural communities of their farmland.
Ferguson, up for Treasury Secretary, leaves a legacy of misleading claims to social responsibility
- ActionAid & FOE
- 20 November 2020
New report reveals finance firm TIAA initiated unprecedented global farmland investments under CEO Roger Ferguson Jr., while undermining human rights standards.
Elusive Investors keep buying and selling – People remain and suffer
- BFA
- 20 November 2020
The struggles continue for the communities displaced by the Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone and their situation is getting worse as the lands are handed over from one company to the next.
Elusive Investors keep buying and selling – People remain and suffer
- Bread for All
- 19 November 2020
Update report on the Addax land grab in Sierra Leone - originally fuelled by European development banks, then taken over by Sunbird Bioenergy and then by Brown Investment Plc
New Eur100m fund launched targeting sustainable ag and forestry in the Baltic and CEE regions
- GAI
- 18 November 2020
The fund’s initial offering has raised EUR32.45 million to-date from private investors to back sustainably-managed agricultural land and forests in the Baltic Sea region and Central and Eastern Europe.