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Why does China own so much of Ukraine?
- WSJ
- 29 June 2022
Other countries should be careful about allowing sales of farmland to hostile powers.
Farmland in Karabakh being given to powerful Azerbaijanis - report
- Eurasianet
- 28 June 2022
A new investigation has found that agricultural firms connected to powerful people, including the first family, were given non-transparent contracts to develop land in Karabakh.
The impact of unimplemented large-scale land development deals
- Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
- 27 June 2022
Article analyses the effects on local actors, their land access, land use and tenure security of a large-scale land deal in northern Laos that a Chinese company initiated but subsequently abandoned.
ECOWAS asked to put in place a moratorium on new land-based concessions for industrial plantations
- Front Page Africa
- 23 June 2022
A regional civil society group "Friends of the Earth Africa" has launched a campaign intended to urge ECOWAS to put in place a moratorium on new land-based concessions for industrial plantations.
Food security concerns prompt Indiana to ban foreign ownership of agricultural land
- Indiana Lawyer
- 22 June 2022
A new law that prohibits foreign businesses from buying and owning state farmland places Indiana among the states that have enacted such statutes to ensure Americans have enough to eat.
North Dakota Attorney General's Office looks into Bill Gates-related farmland sale
- Ag Week
- 22 June 2022
A company associated with billionaire Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates purchased $13.5 million worth of North Dakota farmland. Now the state's attorney general wants to make sure that sale followed the state's corporate farming law.
Tycoon Dewji takes on Coca-Cola with Tanzania investment ramp up
- Bloomberg
- 22 June 2022
Dewji is talking to funders, including the African Development Bank and Proparco, to raise money for planned investments, which includes developing 30,000 hectares under plantation of sisal.
An african delegation stages a demonstration in front of the headquarters of belgian company SIAT to reclaim their land and demand respect for human rights
- FIAN Belgium
- 22 June 2022
Community and civil society representatives from Ghana, Nigeria and Ivory Coast are in Brussels to denounce land grabbing by a Belgian rubber and palm oil company.
Romanian farming group plans to raise EUR 10.7 mln from investors to accelerate expansion
- Romania Insider
- 20 June 2022
Holde Agri Invest, a Romanian farming group that has developed by drawing money from the capital market and buying farms in the country’s southern region, aims to raise EUR 10.7 mln in its biggest capital increase to date.
ECOWAS urged to stop multinationals’ violation of community rights
- Leadership
- 20 June 2022
Friends of the Earth Africa called on the ECOWAS Parliament to expedite action against some multinational agro-commodity coorporations for land grabbing.
Citri&Co and PSP Investments seal long-term strategic alliance in fresh produce in Europe
- PR Newswire
- 20 June 2022
PSP Investments, one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, to acquire high-quality European agricultural properties, starting with Citri&Co citrus orchards in Spain.
Paraguayan authorities complicit in illegal razing of country’s forests by EU-linked agribusiness
- Earthsight
- 20 June 2022
Government documents obtained by Earthsight and El Surtidor and never before brought to light confirm the extent of illegalities committed by ranches previously exposed in Earthsight’s Grand Theft Chaco investigation