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UAE agribusiness in talks to acquire land in Egypt
- Reuters
- 17 October 2023
Emirati agribusiness Al Dahra is in talks to acquire 210,000 ha of agricultural land in Toshka, southern Egypt.
250 acres of millets to be cultivated at Tacama mega farm
- News Room
- 17 October 2023
Millets acquired through a partnership with India will be produced at Tacama Landing along the Berbice River as the country strives to achieve its ambitious food security goal.
How TIAA purchased a legacy of racism & murder
- TIAADivest!
- 16 October 2023
Two TIAA subsidiaries, Global Ag Properties and Premiere Ag Properties, purchased 50,000 acres of land in Arkansas that were stolen over 100 years ago from Black farmers in one of the largest massacres of Black people in US history.
Chinese billionaire selling cattle station empire the size of Belgium
- AFR
- 15 October 2023
The founder of debt ladden Chinese property developer Shimao Group Holdings has put a Western Australia cattle station portfolio almost as big as Belgium on the market with an asking price of about $250 million.
Canada’s pension funds bet big on Australian agriculture
- Asian Investor
- 15 October 2023
Over the last three years, Australia’s agriculture and farmland have been in high demand for institutional investors in Canada searching for diversification and sustainability.
Cashed-up carbon farming fund lifts portfolio to 106,000ha
- AFR
- 15 October 2023
Pastoral Partners Australia, a carbon farming and sustainable grazing fund owned by New Zealand infrastructure investor Morrison & Co, has lifted the size of its portfolio to over 100,000 hectares.
ActionAid Italy et al. vs. JTF Tozzi Green
- OECD Watch
- 13 October 2023
On 13 October 2023, ActionAid Italy, the collective for the defense of Malagasy lands - TANY and BMTT filed a complaint at the Italian NCP against the Italian renewable energy company JTF Tozzi Green. The complainants allege that the leases and usage of land in Madagascar by JTF Tozzy Green’s subsidiary JTF Madagascar infringe on the human rights of the people living in the Ihorombe region.
Colombia to spend $4.25 billion to buy land for poor farmers
- Reuters
- 13 October 2023
Colombia's government will spend $4.25 billion to buy some 1.5 million hectares of land for poor farmers or displaced people, as part of a bid to increase agricultural output and boost peace efforts.
Private equity backed US peach farm files for bankruptcy to pursue sale
- Reuters
- 13 October 2023
Four years after a private equity firm merged two of the nation’s largest peach farmers into a single entity, the firm is basically worthless.
Santa Barbara board upholds rejection of reservoir construction project on former HMC Holdings
- Harvard Crimson
- 12 October 2023
A California county board of supervisors voted to uphold a decision rejecting a project to construct three water storage reservoirs on former Harvard University land holdings in central California.
Harvard’s water grab denied in California
- Stop Harvard Land Grabs
- 11 October 2023
Stop Harvard Land Grabs continues to demand that Harvard give full transparency about its land investments, return land back to communities, pay reparations, and adopt a policy against future farmland investments.
Indonesian police slammed after protester demanding rightful land is shot dead
- Mongabay
- 10 October 2023
Activists have slammed the Indonesian police for rights violations after officers reportedly shot dead a villager and injured at least two others during a protest against an oil palm plantation company in Borneo.