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28 Feb 2013GRAIN
Reining in land grabbers or dumbing down the debate?
Governments in a number of countries are trying to address concerns about land grabbing by closing their borders to foreign investors. Are these restrictions effective? Not really, says GRAIN.
27 Feb 2013ABC
Senators fear Australia losing control of farmland
There are renewed calls for tighter limits on foreign investment in agricultural land, with new figures showing 4.6 million hectares of Australian land is now owned by overseas interests.
25 Feb 2013Adelaide Now
Middle East secretly targets our farms
A Qatari Government-owned company is buying up prime agricultural land in South Australia at well above market rates and is forcing farmers to sign confidentiality agreements.
19 Feb 2013The Malaysian Insider
KLK quietly snaps up large tracts of Aussie farmland
Malaysia’s palm oil giant Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd (KLK) has been steadily purchasing farms in Australia’s largest wheat-producing region
18 Feb 2013The Land
TIAA-CREF could fund more PrimeAg sales
As PrimeAg Australia's $125 million sale of rural properties to US fund manager TIAA-CREF goes through, the question now being raised by investors is what will happen to the residual portfolio.
15 Feb 2013The Australian
US fund TIAA-CREF buys Australian farms from PrimeAg for up to $126m
PrimeAg Australia has agreed to sell 60 per cent of its land and water portfolio to US financial services organisation TIAA-CREF for up to $126 million.
06 Feb 2013ABC
Cairns Mayor open to Chinese farmland investment
The Cairns Mayor says he would support the sale of agricultural land to Chinese investors if it was good for the far north Queensland region of Australia.
01 Feb 2013The Australian
Hungry in the food bowl
In rural Australia, the hyperbole about agriculture as a boom industry for global investors is not translating into practical benefits at the farm gate
25 Jan 2013The Australian
Wilmar move to secure Burdekin land
Wilmar has flagged the purchase of another 778 hectares of land in the Burdekin region south of Townsville, Australia as part of its campaign to lock up as much supply as possible.
09 Jan 2013Wall Street Journal
China fund vying for stake in Australia dairy
China's sovereign-wealth fund is one of three large funds vying to take a stake in Australian dairy company Van Diemen's Land Co.
12 Dec 2012Agrimoney.com
Swedish fund stokes Australia farm-buying spree
A Swedish pension fund has become the latest of a series of purchasers of Australian farmland, a buying spree which has fuelled public concerns, and raised discussion over curbs on foreign ownership.
10 Dec 2012The Australian
US farm fund buys Elliott's old station
TIAA-CREF's Westchester group buys 17,200 ha Cobran Station, once Australia's largest rice farm, while Sweden's Forsta AP-fonden buys the 16,000 ha Merri Meric farm near Henty.
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