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WEB5 days ago · 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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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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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.
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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 ...
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WEBAug 23, 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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WEBSep 15, 2012 · Land grabbing: what is it? Land grabbing is a term that describes the acquisition of farmland by companies, governments and individuals. In the last years the term has been used to refer to the large-scale acquisition of farmland by foreign investors, a trend that has increased since the 2007-2008 world food price crisis, which prompted a renewed interest in foreign lands as a means to achieve ...
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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 ...
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WEBNov 13, 2022 · Government subsidies to farmers have also soared in recent years, amounting to nearly 39 percent of net farm income in 2020. On top of traditional programs like crop insurance payments, the Agriculture Department distributed $23 billion to farmers hurt by President Donald J. Trump’s trade war from 2018 to 2020 and $45.3 billion in pandemic-related assistance in 2020 and 2021.
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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 ...