The alternative investment company, with $5bn of interests, revealed the appointment of seven managers, in countries including Australia, Brazil, and Romania, in a drive to expand in agriculture.
On April 17th, Berlin based INKOTA activists gathered in front of Deutsche Bank on Friedrichstraße dressed as bankers and ready to dig into an oversized cake representing the African continent.
If large-scale land purchases and leases are agreed upon and implemented with due regard to six basic principles, they can play an important role in the development of rural areas, says the German government agency BMZ
German-based Ekosem-Agrar unveiled a E50m bond issue to raise funds for doubling its Russian milking herd, and expanding its 160,000-hectare landbank, extending the wave of investment heading into the country's dairy market.
AGCO Corp. held its first Africa agriculture summit in Berlin on Jan. 23. The tractor company says it will fund the development of Model Farms and Training Centers in Algeria, Ethiopia, Libya, Morocco, South Africa and Zambia to teach farmers how to use its technology.
- GlobalAtlanta
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24 January 2012
On 23 January the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development launched a new position paper on large scale investment in land and its implication on development policies. Objective of the position paper is to reflect the recent dynamics. Currently the paper is available in German only.
Au XVIIIe siècle, la Grande Catherine avait décidé de faire appel à des agriculteurs allemands pour cultiver le sol de la Russie. A un moment, on a dénombré plusieurs milliers de colons. Quelque 250 ans après, l'histoire se répète.
- Les Echos
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16 January 2012
German farmer plans to expand his operation to 250,000 hectares, an area the size of the state of Saarland, and to float his company on the stock market in Germany, where he pays a portion of his taxes.
- Der Spiegel
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12 January 2012
Geldanlagen in der Landwirtschaft sind gefragt. Der amerikanische Großinvestor Jim Rogers rät dazu, Ackerland kaufen. Und zwar in Australien.
"The whole mess in Europe at the moment has increased demand for diversification products for the Asian markets," says Aquila CEO Roman Rosslenbroich, including farmland.
"Hot issue" session organsied by the FAO at the Bonn 2011 Nexus Conference focuses on ways and means to make large-scale land lease and acquisitions work for food security
The German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) invites submissions for an international conference on large-scale agricultural investments on 11 May 2012 in Hamburg, Germany.
