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WEBSep 11, 2024 · The incredible £263m farm that's the biggest in Europe - but owned by the Middle East. Express. 08 September 2024. The Agricost Farm in Romania, covering an incredible 57,000 hectares of land, was purchased from a Romanian businessman by UAE-based Al Dahra investment in 2018.
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WEBAug 26, 2024 · Koch invests in massive land grab from West African herders. Exposed. 21 August 2024. An investment arm of the largest private company in the U.S. — Koch, Inc — is investing in an agricultural business venture that will generate carbon credits while pulling local natural resources from almost 2.9 million hectares of land in West Africa.
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WEBAug 1, 2020 · 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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
farmlandgrab.org | Charts: The top 5 land-grabbing countries
WEBAnd as Mother Jones blogger Tom Philpott has noted, the grabbers have an average per capita GDP about five times the size of the grabbed. Take a look at the top five land-grabbing countries below and their respective claims: Top Global Land Poachers by Area Grabbed, 2002 to 2012 Israel United Arab Emirates China United States United Kingdom 4 5 ...
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.
GRAIN releases data set with over 400 global land grabs
WEBToday GRAIN is making available a new data set documenting 416 recent, large-scale land grabs by foreign investors for the production of food crops. The cases cover nearly 35 million hectares of land in 66 countries. This is not an exhaustive list of all land deals. We only focus on those deals that:
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