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Not a grain of truth in Ukrainian farmland claim
- AAP
- 22 August 2022
A claim circulating on social media that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has sold off 17 million hectares of farmland to US corporations is baseless.
Macquarie gathers Queensland croplands in $120m deal
- AFR
- 21 August 2022
Macquarie Asset Management is stepping up its investment in farmland, taking control of Cowal Agriculture, a cropping enterprise affiliated with US-based Global Endowment Management.
55 communities protest Edo Govt illegal acquisition of their farmland
- This Day
- 20 August 2022
Communities protest grabbing, bulldozing and replacing of their biodiversity with monocrop oil palms by Fayus Nigeria Ltd and several other of the Edo State governor's business friends and multinational companies.
Suriname offers land for food production
- Trinidad Express
- 20 August 2022
President of Suriname Chandrikapersad Santokhi announced that his country will make land available for agricultural production, fostering partnerships between Surinamese and other Caribbean producers and processors.
Revealed: The developers behind Scotland’s carbon credit ‘green rush’
- The Ferrett
- 18 August 2022
Scotland’s richest man, an oil giant, an earl, and private equity and property firms are among those developing carbon credit projects that critics say are pushing up land prices and allowing companies to “greenwash” their image.
Sarah Vogel investigates Bill Gates’ North Dakota land purchase
- HPR
- 17 August 2022
The Anti-Corporate Farming Law was created in 1932 to keep corporations out of North Dakota by preventing them from owning North Dakota farmland. This was to protect local, family farms.
Agricultiva, Mitrelli Group’s agriculture subsidiary, to launch Ground-breaking AGROPOLE WEST Project in Senegal
- Panafrican Visions
- 10 August 2022
The project aims to develop local agriculture and agroindustry in the area and provide greater agricultural employment utilizing Israeli agricultural models which can be replicated in other regions and countries.
Declaration of the Informal Alliance against Industrial Plantations in West and Central Africa
- Various
- 09 August 2022
In May 2022, community members, activists, and land and human rights defenders from West and Central Africa gathered in Aboisso, Côte d'Ivoire for a meeting of an informal alliance formed to fight against industrial monocultures.
New laws of the land: Sierra Leone reshapes environmental battleground
- NYT
- 09 August 2022
The West African nation will let communities veto mining, farming and industrial projects. Activists say the legislation is a progressive landmark. At least one investor calls it unworkable.
Huge foreign farmland investor fee hike stirs Labor agenda unease
- Farm Online
- 04 August 2022
Foreign investors in Australian rural property now pay up to $1 million in fees when applying to buy farmland or commercial agribusiness assets.
Brazil’s FIAGRO promotes agribusiness: key points about this new form of investment
- DLA Piper
- 04 August 2022
Federal Law n° 14,130/2021: Investment Funds in Agro-industrial Production Chains allows foreign investors to participate in the land market without having property or domain over rural lands.
International Finance Corporation should stop bankrolling destructive agribusiness
- Food Tank
- 03 August 2022
The World Bank’s private sector arm approved a US$200M loan to agribusiness giant Louis Dreyfus Company under the guise of “sustainable development.