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Chinese textile exporter spends $120m on giant NSW cotton farm
- AFR
- 23 January 2023
The deal is the second $100 million-plus farming transaction involving offshore investors this year, highlighting the global appeal of prime Australian farmland.
Bauchi: Farmers sue govt over allocation of 10,000 hectares of land to Tiamin Rice
- The Sun
- 19 January 2023
A group of farmers and pastoralists from Zindiwa Community in Nigeria's Bauchi State are suing the state government over the allocation of 10,000 hectares of farmland to Tiamin Rice limited.
Moo Moo Farm looks to expand dairy operations
- Phnom Penh Post
- 19 January 2023
Government says it will not give company a concession for an additional 10,000ha of land in Mondulkiri province, in accordance with a 2012 government decision.
"Beware of land grabbing: Central Africans are in danger of becoming foreigners in their own country", say the bishops
- Agenzia Fides
- 19 January 2023
Bishops say they are witnessing a veritable avalanche of citizens from other countries in the African region and even from other parts of the world buying up land in the Central African Republic.
Athlete investment platform Patricof Co. makes an initial investment in farmland
- GAI
- 18 January 2023
The $5 million investment is the first in what Patricof Co. stated will be a broader farmland strategy that will ultimately include investments in four more US farms.
Tchad: À Kana, interrogations sur les zones franches prévues par l'État
- RFI
- 18 January 2023
Au Tchad, la création d’une zone économique spéciale dans la province du Logone Occidental alimente la controverse.
Community land rights defenders that have been on trial since 2020 are set to return to court this January
- Witness Radio
- 17 January 2023
Great seasons SMC Limited is one of the multinationals that have forcefully evicted thousands of local people and criminalized activities of smallholder farmers resisting illegal evictions in the Kiryandongo district.
Cat Urbigkit: Corporate capture of ag lands is happening now
- Cowboy State Daily
- 17 January 2023
NFFC says that a new “land grab” is underway in the US, with Wall Street investors, pension funds, and other financiers looking for a safe place to park their money and turning to farmlands as their preferred investment.
At a rubber plantation in Liberia, history repeats in a fight over land
- Mongabay
- 17 January 2023
Communities say a SOCFIN subsidiary used a $10M loan from the World Bank's IFC to turn the forests where they’d farmed and held sacred rituals into a massive rubber plantation.
Sierra Leone: Living and resisting around Socfin’s oil palm plantations
- WRM & WONARPI
- 17 January 2023
Episode 1 of a new podcast that highlights the different layers of oppression women face once industrial plantations invade their territories.
Poscast: Las voces de las mujeres que viven alrededor de las plantaciones de palma aceitera de Socfin en Sierra Leona
- WRM
- 16 January 2023
La empresa de plantaciones de palma aceitera Socfin ha traído violencia y opresión a varios países africanos. Sierra Leona no es una excepción.
PLS Plantations formed JV with Japanese companies to cultivate durian farming project
- New Straits Times
- 16 January 2023
PLS LESB will partner with Japan's Millennium Agriculture Technology and MyFarm Inc, Japan to develop up to 1,000 hectares of durian plantations in Pahang, Malaysia.