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11 February 2010South Korea's state-run agriculture trading corporation says that it aims to set up an international grain purchasing and distribution company that can invest directly in foreign farms or control stakes in agricultural operations.
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2 February 2010Billionaire George Soros’s Adecoagro venture, which invests in agriculture and renewable energy in Latin America, is considering an initial public offering to help fund projects in Brazil that include a $700 million sugar mill.
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![Swiss Firm Preps Agricultural Hedge Fund]( "Swiss Firm Preps Agricultural Hedge Fund")
20 January 2010The Lumix AgroDirect Fund, which has been incubated since June 2008, invests in the production of soft commodities and in commodity trade finance in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.
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![La agrícola El Tejar (Argentina) busca poner un pie en Colombia]( "La agrícola El Tejar (Argentina) busca poner un pie en Colombia")
11 December 2009Planea comenzar a producir en 2010; interés por la soja y el maíz
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6 December 2009Hassad Food plans to invest all over the world. “Latin America, Asia, you name it,” says Al Hajri, “Where we invest, we make profit. If Qatar is in need of that production, Hassad has the pleasure to sell to Qatar at no special rate.”
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![BrasilAgro to invest $100 million in Brazil farmland expansion]( "BrasilAgro to invest $100 million in Brazil farmland expansion")
12 November 2009BrazilAgro owns close to 200,000 hectares of farmland in Brazil, said Elsztain. Cresud Sacifya, the biggest farmland owner in Argentina, holds 22.89 percent of BrasilAgro and operates the company.
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9 November 2009
Buenos Aires-based Cresud plans to acquire more land to add to the 484,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) it owns and the 90,410 hectares it leases in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia
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![Dreyfus sees commods consolidation, sugar next]( "Dreyfus sees commods consolidation, sugar next")
27 October 2009Volatility in commodity markets tends to boost consolidation in the agriculture sector as firms require more capital and improved risk management, the executive officer of French giant Louis Dreyfus said Tuesday. One of the company's focus now is on farmland.
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26 September 2009Ramakrishna Karuturi does not feature on any international power list. Perhaps he should.
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22 September 2009China's sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corp, has bought a 14.5 per cent stake in grain trading and production firm Noble Group for US$850 million.
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8 September 2009The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has launched a venture aiming to invest in food production worldwide focusing on the acquisition and development of existing agribusiness companies rather than the lease of large tracts of farmland.
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15 August 2009Un violento suceso acaecido en la Amazonía peruana en junio último alertó al mundo sobre lo que ocurre con las tierras del Sur.
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14 August 2009Resource-hungry China has so far passed over investing in high-priced farmlands of South America in favor of Africa, with its less developed commodities markets, greater need for financing and open labor laws.
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11 August 2009Hassad Food, owned by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, will buck the Gulf Arab trend of buying farmland abroad to secure food supplies and consider taking stakes in agricultural companies instead, its chairman said.
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21 July 2009Allied Venture promo video for Indian investors
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15 July 2009Rothschild has recently formed a co-operation agreement with Rabobank, a leading global food and agricultural bank. The agreement covers co-operation for mergers and acquisitions and the equity capital market across a number of sectors including farm inputs and equipment, farm-based commodities, primary food processing, food processing and beverages.
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7 July 2009Actualmente los grandes compradores son el gobierno de Corea del Sur -que posee en el extranjero más tierras fértiles de las que tiene en su propio país-, seguido de China, Arabia Saudí, Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Japón.
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![Argentina: Justicia entrerriana no intervendrá en la siembra de soja en las islas]( "Argentina: Justicia entrerriana no intervendrá en la siembra de soja en las islas")
23 June 2009
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La empresa holandesa Bema Agri adquirió en 2008 poco más de 8 mil hectáreas de islas en jurisdicción de Victoria y levantó terraplenes para proteger los sembradíos de oleaginosas.
El Superior Tribunal de Justicia de Entre Ríos (STJ) desestimó la apelación de dos concejales que, en calidad de ciudadanos y a través de un amparo ambiental, [...]
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23 June 2009From Kansas to Kenya, investment opportunities in a range of global farm-related ventures are increasingly drawing capital to what many players and analysts see as the early days of a burgeoning bull market in agriculture.