USDA’s proposed AFIDA rewrite would turn a long-standing foreign farmland disclosure regime into a sharper national-security reporting system, with electronic filings, geospatial land mapping, broader beneficial-ownership disclosures, tighter lease rules and steeper penalties. The proposal would move administration from FSA to USDA’s Office of Homeland Security, reflecting Washington’s growing concern that foreign agricultural land holdings—especially those tied to adversary governments or opaque ownership structures—pose risks beyond ordinary real estate oversight.
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