Romania

Teren de Vanzare – Land for sale: Romanian peasants’ struggle against land grabbing
- Slow Food
- 12 May 2017
In Europe we tend to relegate the idea of land grabbing to the global South, yet it is happening much closer to home than we perhaps realize.
PHI Group to partner with Maxagro Group of Romania
- Globe Newswire
- 19 April 2017
Maxagro and PHI Group will consider raising capital for Maxagro to acquire additional farmland by taking Maxagro public in the U.S. and European Stock Markets.
AP Pension denies CEO quit over pressure to invest in farms
- I&PE
- 10 February 2017
AP Pension, the Danish labour-market pensions provider, has hit out at media reports that its chief executive quit in December because of pressure from the supervisory board to invest in the agricultural sector.
Comment le groupe français Avril investit en Roumanie
- France Télévision
- 12 October 2016
La Roumanie voit ses terres accaparées par des investisseurs étrangers, souvent des fonds de pension. Dans cette usine rachetée par le groupe français Avril, on affirme "valoriser" le pays et ses agriculteurs.
Les terres roumaines, cheval de Troie ?
- France TV Info
- 10 October 2016
Comment la PAC (politique agricole commune) favorise les investisseurs étrangers au détriment des agriculteurs roumains...
Roumanie : les investisseurs étrangers se ruent sur les terres agricoles
- Geopolis
- 13 September 2016
La Roumanie est confrontée à une véritable ruée sur ses terres de la part d’acheteurs étrangers. Explications.
Romania agriculture outlook: The legal challenges that investors are facing
- Business Review
- 06 July 2016
Although the local agriculture sector remains attractive to investors, there are ongoing issues with the legislation, which hampers the acquisition of farmland and the sale of crops at the best prices, according to legal experts.
Roumanie : terre d’opportunités pour les agriculteurs européens ?
- RFI
- 04 July 2016
De source roumaine, sur les 10 millions de terres arables, environ un tiers est exploité par des étrangers.
Draft law: Foreigners allowed to buy up to 50 hectares of arable land in Romania
- Romania Insider
- 01 July 2016
Romania’s Agriculture Ministry has drafted the law that regulates the purchase of agricultural land by foreigners.
MPs want to tighten rules for foreigners who buy farmland in Romania
- Romania Insider
- 27 April 2016
A group of 24 deputies, most of them from the National Liberal Party (PNL) have initiated a law draft that aims to impose stricter conditions for foreigners who want to buy farmland in Romania.
Denmark's AP Pension to invest in Romanian farmland
- IPE
- 26 April 2016
Denmark’s AP Pension is expanding its exposure to agricultural land in a proposed new deal to buy farmland in eastern Romania and lease it back to the Danish company operating farms on the land.
Foreigners buy seven times more land in Romania’s Arad county in one year
- Romania Insider
- 12 April 2016
Individuals and companies have bought about 9,000 hectares of arable land in Romania’s Arad county in the last 12 months, seven times more compared to the previous year.