4 days ago · Governments and corporations are buying up farmland in other countries to grow their own food – or simply to make money

Nov 28, 2024 · Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund buys shares of Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Co. MarketBeat; 30 November 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.

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.

Oct 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.

Data source:"Global land and water grabbing. In October of 2012, Oxfam called on the World Bank to freeze its agricultural investments in land in order to review its policies and develop stronger guidelines on how to avoid land grabs. According to Oxfam, the World Bank's projects have been cited in 21 formal land rights complaints since 2008 by …

Jan 20, 2025 · Papua land is never empty, it is a source of livelihood for many. Jakarta Post; 09 January 2025 The food estate in Merauke - spanning more than two million hectares - seems set to join the long list of such projects that have failed since the concept was first proposed in 2010, only to leave behind broad damage to the rights of indigenous peoples and the environment, including the loss of ...

Jan 8, 2016 · This paper begins by explaining Eco Ruralis’ criteria for what can be considered a land grab, and gives a comprehensive definition. The rest of the paper contains the different definitions or ideas of land grabbing from various sectors of society: civil society, governments, corporations and financial institutions.

May 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 ...

Today 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 …

Jul 29, 2024 · Members of the Landless Workers' Movement of Brazil (MST) march for agrarian reform. Credit: MST BA The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems recently released a report highlighting escalating pressures on farmland. It identified four primary drivers: deregulation and financialisation, which treat land as a speculative asset; expanding conservation and carbon offset ...