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WEBSep 26, 2024 · Industrial plantations: stop endangering local farmers, Indigenous knowledge, and food system models – land-grab victims. Emotions, tears, and testimonies exposing the dark side of industrial agriculture rocked activities to mark the International Day of Struggle against industrial plantations 2024 celebrations in Uganda.
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 ...
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 ...
The state of the global farmland grab, according to the Land Matrix
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 | About farmlandgrab.org
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 | Corporations plunder US West’s water amid …
WEB1 day ago · In 2013 and 2014, GSC Farm, a subsidiary of a water management company called Greenstone Resource Partners, which is backed by MassMutual, bought nearly 500 acres of farmland in Cibola, a tiny town in Arizona’s La Paz County, for just under $10 million. The farmland comes with the rights to more than 2,000 acre-feet …
Agricultural land is becoming an investment vehicle for the rich
WEBJacobin | 25 June 2023 Agricultural land is becoming an investment vehicle for the rich. By GUTHRIE SCRIMGEOUR Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t work the land on his Hawaii ranch, but he and other wealthy landowners still benefit from huge agricultural tax breaks.
Farmland values hit record highs, pricing out farmers
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.
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.
farmlandgrab.org | The global farmland grab goes green
WEBMay 11, 2021 · Back in March of this year, Bill Gates was fielding questions on the online platform Reddit, promoting his new book on the climate crisis. Gates had just recently been revealed to be the largest farmland owner in the US, and one of the Reddit participants asked him why he was buying so much agricultural land.