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05 Dec 2024
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New Zealand outlines rules to curb large-scale carbon farming Bloomberg | 04 Dec 2024
New Zealand has outlined new rules aimed at slowing the rate at which farmland is being converted into forestry for carbon credits.
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Pakistan: Landless peasants resisting land grabbing for corporate farming projects under the Green Pakistan Initiative La Via Campesina | 03 Dec 2024
Farmers movement in Pakistan strongly rejected the government’s new Green Pakistan Initiative and corporate farming projects said that it will lead to the allocation of lands to private companies and investors. They criticized the military’s involvement in land grabbing, citing ongoing massive acquisitions for corporate farming.
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Toesca Asset Management and Astarte Capital Partners launch $350mn regenerative agriculture investment platform in Latin America Astarte | 03 Dec 2024
Toesca Permanent Crops II aims to invest US $350mn in a portfolio of permanent crops based on regenerative and sustainable practices, in Chile, Peru and other Latin American countries.
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Saskatchewan auditor concerned with tracking foreign ownership of farmland Regina Leader-Post | 03 Dec 2024
Saskatchewan’s auditor says the Canadian province needs to do a better job tracking and enforcing rules on non-Canadians purchasing farmland
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Foreign investors set sights on Việt Nam's food processing sector Viet Nam News | 03 Dec 2024
Japan's Sojitz is collaborating with Vinamilk and Vilico to invest in a 10,000 cattle farm and beef processing and distribution facilities.
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Macquarie Asset Management takes majority share in Australia's Fresh Produce Group Fruitnet | 03 Dec 2024
FPG owns and operates approximately 1,200ha of premium farmland across Australia where it grows table grapes, citrus, and berries.
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Pakistan: Landless peasants resisting land grabbing for corporate farming projects under the Green Pakistan Initiative La Via Campesina | 03 Dec 2024
The government’s corporate farming policies have led to the allocation of lands to private companies and investors, which has led to more transnational agribusiness corporations entering into different agricultural ventures.
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EBRD makes €50 million equity investment in Croatia’s Podravka Agri The Sting | 03 Dec 2024
EBRD makes a €50 million equity investment in Croatia’s Podravka Group to support the acquisition of Fortenova Group’s agricultural division, which owns 32,000 ha of farmland and pig and cattle breeding farms
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Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund buys shares of Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Co. MarketBeat | 30 Nov 2024
Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition is a Nasdaq-listed SPAQ that recently acquired 200,000 ha of farmland in Australia through a business combination with Australian Food & Agriculture Company Limited.
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Indonesia a step closer to partner with UAE on Papua food estate Jakarta Globe | 29 Nov 2024
A possible cooperation between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Indonesia on the so-called food estate program in Papua, which spans around 2 million hectares, is beginning to take shape as talks continue. Elite Agro -- an Emirati agriculture giant -- was among the companies that the Indonesian government had been negotiating with.
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Down on the farm, Saudi Arabia has a $9.8bn hole to fill AGBI | 28 Nov 2024
After years investing in farms overseas, the Saudi government is now stepping up efforts to attract foreign investors to its domestic agriculture sector
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Experts stress urgent need to unlock value in Africa’s vast arable land The Nation | 27 Nov 2024
Critical issues around the food and energy security plaguing Africa dominated discourse at the Food and Energy Security Conference in Lagos hosted by White & Case LLP in collaboration with the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, AFREXIM, and African Finance Corporation.
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Iran to expand overseas farming to 2mln hectares by 2029 Press TV | 27 Nov 2024
Iran government official says Iran is currently using some 0.228 million hectares of land for farming in other countries, including Brazil, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Russia and that private Iranian companies have also launched overseas farming projects in Ghana, Armenia and Pakistan.
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Agricultural lands in Karabakh, Eastern Zangazur to be leased via investment competitions Report | 27 Nov 2024
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has approved amendments to the "Law on Land Lease" under which agricultural lands in the Karabakh and Eastern Zangazur areas that Azerbaijan seized in the 2020 war with Armenia will be leased to business entities through investment competitions.
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Avon Pension Fund to invest a further £150m in natural capital Room 151 | 27 Nov 2024
Avon Pension Fund plans to further allocate between £100m and £150m to assets such as sustainable forestry and agriculture due to the assets return factors.
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Carbon Assets unveils $144m Jigawa wetland project Leadership | 27 Nov 2024
Carbon Assets Nigeria Limited has signed an MOU with Jigawa State for a project that will span 32,000 hectares, plant over 4 million trees, and generate $48 million-$144 million in revenue from the sale of carbon credits.
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New myths and new colonial land grabs ActionAid USA | 23 Nov 2024
We must recognize and stop the growing takeover of forest, grassland, and farmland by powerful financial actors, which is being perpetrated in the name of new myths of false solutions to climate change.
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Arizona to prosecute Saudi company over water use Arabian Gulf Business Insight | 14 Nov 2024
The attorney general of the US state of Arizona is set to launch legal proceeding in the next two weeks against the Saudi dairy company Almarai over groundwater pumping on two farms in the state.
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Impact ag SPAC set to take new company and regenerative agriculture to the NYSE RFSI Forum | 04 Sep 2024
Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Corporation announced agreement for a business combination with the iconic Australian Food & Agriculture Company Limited, one of the largest diversified agricultural portfolios in New South Wales
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Pakistán: Lxs agricultores denuncian el acaparamiento masivo de tierras como parte de la iniciativa Pakistán Verde La Vía Campesina | 02 dic 2024
Las políticas del gobierno, como la Iniciativa Pakistán Verde y la Agricultura Corporativa, han llevado a la asignación de tierras a empresas privadas e inversores, mientras que más corporaciones agroindustriales transnacionales ingresan a diferentes proyectos.
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