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WEBSep 11, 2024 · Why commercial agribusinesses resort to backward integration – Gov. Sule. Business Day; 11 September 2024 The Governor of Nigeria's Nasarawa State says the implementation of the Framework for Responsible Investment in Land-Intensive Agriculture (FRILIA), part of a World Bank economic transformation agenda programme, will attract large-scale private agricultural investments.
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WEBAug 26, 2024 · Hedge fund's $100M Arizona farmland buy stirs fears of water grab. Arizona Daily Star; 26 August 2024 New York-based hedge fund Water Asset Management LLC spent $100 million to buy farmland and water rights in Western Arizona, stirring concerns about a future “water grab” from that rural area and of corporate control over a major groundwater source.
How to resist the expanding global land grab - farmlandgrab.org
WEBMar 19, 2024 · Mali made headlines as a hotbed of the global land grab in the wake of the 2008 food price crisis when massive tracts of its arable red earth were swept up by foreign investors. The ensuing rural devastation and displacement reflected a bleak new reality for peasant communities throughout the Global South. At the time, Mali had not passed a ...
Land squeeze: Soaring land prices, grabs and carbon schemes …
WEBMay 12, 2024 · Soaring land prices, land grabs, and carbon schemes are creating an unprecedented ‘land squeeze’, threatening farmers and food production, reveals a comprehensive new report today by IPES-Food. The report comes as land issues rise up the global agenda – with the World Bank holding a conference on ‘Securing Land Tenure and Access for Climate Action’ in Washington DC this week, a ...
JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters.
WEB1 day ago · Vance invested up to $65,000 in private investments in AcreTrader during his stint as a venture capitalist, according to his 2022 financial disclosure to the Senate ethics committee. The investment firm Narya Capital—which Vance launched in 2020 with backing from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel—was a vehicle for these investments, and a key backer in early funding rounds of the farmland startup.
The state of the global farmland grab, according to the Land …
WEBOct 27, 2021 · The Land Matrix Initiative, a collaboration between academic research institutes and the International Land Coalition, has just released a new report on large scale land acquisitions – as they call them – in the agricultural sector worldwide. The report accounts for 33 million hectares which international investors have acquired for agricultural production since 2000.
farmlandgrab.org | Land grab? The race for the world's farmland
WEBJan 8, 2010 · The race for the world's farmland. The world is experiencing a grain rush. With increasing frequency, food-importing countries and private investors are acquiring farmland across the developing world. This new publication marks one of the first efforts in the United States to bring together perspectives from international organizations, farmers ...
farmlandgrab.org | The incredible £263m farm that's the biggest in ...
WEBSep 11, 2024 · Farming is a big business - and there's one farm in Europe that is biggest of all. The Agricost Farm in Romania is the biggest in the EU, covering an incredible 57,000 hectares of land. As a demonstration of scale, this means there are six countries in Europe smaller than the farm - Andorra, Malta ...
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WEBAbout farmlandgrab.org. This website contains news about the global rush to buy or lease farmlands by agribusiness, governments and financial investors -- and people’s resistance against it. Its purpose is to serve as a resource for those monitoring, researching or organising around the issue, particularly activists, non-government ...
An enormous land transition is underway. Here’s how to make it just.
WEBFeb 24, 2020 · A March 2019 gathering of 30 Indigenous sovereignty, housing justice, and food justice organizers convened on the territory of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria to discuss land justice as well as other issues facing Indigenous Californians.