With very low interest rates having taken root across asset classes and investors abiding in their hunt for higher yields, the world’s largest manager of global farmland, Nuveen, says the season may be ripe for a strategic allocation to the $2.3 trillion market for U.S. farm real estate.
- INvestable Universe
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31 October 2019
An Associated Press investigation found poor conditions of millions of laborers from some of the poorest corners of Asia across palm oil plantation in Malaysia and Indonesia, many of them enduring various forms of exploitation, with the most serious abuses including child labor, outright slavery and allegations of rape.
A private equity farming giant with more than 1,500 acres of land in Fresno and Tulare counties and 8,600 acres statewide has declared bankruptcy.
The social consequences of these land grabs are significant.
- Workers' World
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03 August 2009
Finding suitable farmland investment vehicles is not as easy as one might think.
Right now, on the desks of Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) there is the background material for an application of credit guarantee for an 8000 ha sugar plantation and a refinery in Bagamoyo, Tanzania.
- Expressen.se
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11 December 2011
Foreign investors own 10% of Australia's agricultural land. But that could soon rise thanks to two huge projects being developed in Northern Territory's Top End with the help of foreign investors.
George Soros participates in $500 million capitalisation of new firm, Tunbridge Partners, that will invest in "real assets" in timber and agriculture.
Montreal-based Fiera Capital Corp. is taking the next step in its aggressive expansion plans that include adding agriculture and private equity to its current asset class offerings.
Auditors wrote down the value of Harvard's Brazil farm project by about $200 million after the endowment decided to exit the development in 2017, according to documents filed in a lawsuit.
- Bloomberg
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24 September 2019
With favourable global economic conditions, including current high commodity prices, and with Australia’s exchange rate at sub USD 0.70, big properties around Australia are changing hands with overseas investors buying in.
- Property Tribune
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25 January 2023
One year into the war, a new report reveals how oligarchs and financial interests are expanding control over Ukraine’s agricultural land with help and financing from Western financial institutions.
- Oakland Institute
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21 February 2023
A British entrepreneur is leasing land from smallholders in an attempt to revive the breadbasket of the former Soviet Union
- Wall Street Journal
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18 May 2008
Perhaps the UN’s hand-wringing is just sentimental. Deals will be done and the rush to buy land has begun in Europe, too.
- The Times (London)
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05 Mar 2009
Landkom has leased 165,000 acres from thousands of landowners in Ukraine and will reap its first big harvest this year.
- Wall Sreet Journal
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12 May 2008
The fervour with which foreign commercial interests are forcing their agricultural 'solutions' on the African continent represents nothing more than an established endeavour to protect profits and access to resources.
- Pambazuka
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05 November 2009
Agribusiness and global investors are scooping up farmland. Are corporate farmers the new colonialists? asks BusinessWeek
- Business Week
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25 November 2009
Sous l’œil bienveillant de l’ONU, les grands noms de la finance s’accaparent des régions agricoles entières.
- La Terre
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30 November 2009
Investors are growing more bullish on U.S. farmland as softness in some sectors spurs increased competition for buying quality acres. Capital flow is increasing from overseas, in particular from Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
"We are seeing a land grab bigger than anywhere else in the world, and it has attracted a mighty cast of characters," says Kingsmill Bond, chief strategist at Troika Dialog, a Moscow brokerage firm.
- Institutional Investor
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08 January 2009
That land is far more complex and valuable than plain dirt was one of the central themes of FC Business Intelligence’s “World Agriculture Investment USA” conference in Chicago on May 9-10, 2011. A report from AllAboutAlpha.
- AllAboutAlpha
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30 May 2011
The world’s second-oldest profession–farming–is a hot investment
- Philadelphia Inquirer
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17 May 2011
African farmers do need investment and support. They desperately need decent roads and access to local markets, processing equipment to add value to their own diverse farm produce, storage and drying facilities to prevent post-harvest losses, and basic amenities such as schools and health centres and water wells to improve rural lives, so that farming communities can thrive. But foreign investors are not in business to provide any of these things.
Fear of unrest and hunger for profit are sparking massive acquisitions of farmland.
- In These Times
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22 August 2011
Unfortunately, given the global nature of capital, even if the US were to completely shut down speculation, it would just move offshore.
- AlterNet
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23 September 2011
With the surge of corporate farms in Argentina and Brazil over the past two to three years, I thought it would be useful to compile a list of the biggest groups with a short description of each.
- Progressive Farmer
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12 August 2010
New data set documens 416 recent, large-scale land grabs by foreign investors for the production of food crops, covering nearly 35 million hectares of land in 66 countries.
The scariest aspect of this unfolding phenomenon is that despite the foreseeable terrible consequences, the appetite among the rich countries to own a piece of this developing-country fertile land continues to grow, turning to an ugly competition.
- Peace & Conflict Monitor
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29 February 2012
India, which doesn’t allow corporate farming domestically, has joined the growing list of countries going overseas to look for food security.
- Asia Sentinel
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09 April 2012
Sixty years on, controversial agricultural projects are back in fashion in Africa and other parts of the developing world as investors - from foreign governments to wealthy individuals - hunt for land to grow food.