Foreign Ownership

Argentina's Limits on Foreign Farmland Returned on 9 October. Three Weeks Later Benetton Sold 900,000 Hectares of Patagonia.

Argentina's Supreme Court suspended the repeal of the rural land law on 9 October, provisionally restoring limits on foreign ownership including a 1,000 hectare cap. On 2 November the Benetton family's holding company was reported to have sold about 900,000 hectares of Patagonia.