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25 Apr 2024
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Iowa tightens foreign-owned land law, but misses farmers' main concern: access to land Des Moines Register | 23 Apr 2024
Some Iowans believe the greater threat to US farmland is not China but big-money investors — from capital investment funds to tech billionaires, sports celebrities and churches — that are pushing ownership out of reach of Iowa farmers.
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Philippines: Metro Pacific eyeing more agri investments Manila Times | 22 Apr 2024
The group, which has a dairy joint venture with Israel's LR Group, says it intends to increase its dairy capacity and invest in a 3,000-hectare property in Mindoro to "plant corn for cows" and for other purposes.
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HAGL raises $51mln from private placement VNN | 22 Apr 2024
With the new injection of funds, HAGL intends to expand its total plantation area to 25,000 hectares for bananas, durian and other economically valuable crops across Việt Nam, Laos and Cambodia.
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Colonialism revamped in the Democratic Republic of Congo African Arguments | 21 Apr 2024
Lord Leverhulme’s 1911 concession in the Congo, is now held by an African-run New York-based private equity firm with strong links to global philanthropy.
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Pakistan sweetens terms to lure Saudi investment Tribune | 20 Apr 2024
Pakistan has offered Saudi Arabia a cattle farm in Punjab for 30,000 animals and 50,000 acres of land on lease for corporate farming, with reports that a deal with the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC) could be signed next week when Pakistan's PM visits the Kingdom
The government has indicated a 22% return on the investment in corporate farming with a payback period of only six years, said the sources. The sources said that due to the lack of availability of water corporate farming cannot begin for at least one and a half years.
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Une chasse mondiale aux profits de l'eau risque d'assécher les villes Bloomberg | 14 nov 2023
African Agriculture Inc., une société d'investissement basée dans un espace de travail partagé Regus au neuvième étage de Park Avenue à New York, cultive 300 hectares (740 acres) de luzerne vert émeraude à l'est de Saint-Louis dans une réserve naturelle désertique appelée le Ndiael. La ferme tire son eau du lac de Guiers voisin, alimenté par un canal venant de la rivière. Seule réserve d'eau douce du Sénégal, le lac fournit la moitié de l'eau de Dakar, la capitale du Sénégal.
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Embuste por trás da certificação do óleo de palma da Agropalma, denuncia site Ver-O-Fato | 22 Apr 2024
Reportagem do site Salve a Floresta afirma que a chamada sustentabilidade zero, propalada pela Agropalma, não passa de um “embuste por trás da certificação do óleo de palma” da empresa sediada em terras do Pará entre os municípios do Acará e Tailândia numa área de 106 mil – maior do que o tamanho da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e onde estão localizadas terras particulares da família Tabaranã, áreas públicas, quilombolas e indígena.
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