Sweden

Swedes want Aussie farms
- Stock & Land
- 14 June 2011
The Swedish National Pension Fund is teaming up with US institutional investor TIAA-CREF to buy farmland in Australia.
Swedish fund goes farming for diversification
- Top1000Funds
- 08 June 2011
The Second Swedish National Pension Fund (AP2) will invest $250 million in a joint venture with a US pension fund and financial services provider to buy farmland in the United States, Brazil and Australia.
BAD: China e Suécia na "corrida à terra" em Moçambique -- CoDA
- Lusa
- 07 June 2011
Moçambique é um dos alvos principais da "corrida à terra" por investimentos estrangeiros no continente africano, com a China e a Suécia à frente dos principais projetos, revelou hoje em Lisboa a Coligação para o Diálogo Sobre África (CoDA).
AP2, TIAA-CREF partner in agriculture venture
- Global Pensions
- 25 May 2011
Swedish pension buffer fund AP2 and US pension fund manager TIAA-CREF have formed a joint venture to invest at least US$500 million in farmland in the US, Australia and Brazil.
Food enough, land enough?
- Svenska kyrkan
- 11 January 2011
Publication from Church of Sweden, Swedish Cooperative Center and Forum Syd aims to contribute to a renewed discussion about how the world’s food supply, trade in food and different agricultural strategies are linked to world hunger.
Black Earth yields fall as Russia wheat hopes fade
- Agrimoney
- 27 August 2010
Black Earth Farming a Swedish firm which controls more than 300,000 hectares of Russian farmland, has reported yields of some crops down by more than a half thanks to Russia's "scorching" heat
Investors fear re-run of great grain robbery
- Financial Times
- 06 August 2010
Analysts and farming executives say the crisis is likely to accelerate the consolidation of Russian agriculture already under way, allowing big conglomerates to swoop on struggling small farmers.
Pension funds – future farmers
- IPE Magazine
- 01 July 2010
Report on the growing popularity of farmland investment in the developing world for European pension funds
Rausing company pays EUR 8.2mn for arable land in Romania
- UkrAgroConsult
- 08 Mar 2010
Ingleby Agricultura, controlled by the Rausing family, paid EUR 8.2mn for purchasing 2,000ha of arable land in Western Romania from Danish company FirstFarms
COUNT ME IN! Swedish investor snaps up historic property for $20m
- The Standard
- 28 January 2010
Swedish Count Carl Gustav Wachmeister bought 3,310 ha in Victoria State, Australia
The African land-grab: Creating equitable governance strategies through codes-of-conduct and certification schemes
- Earth System Governance
- 02 December 2009
This paper examines two failed land acquisition processes for food and biofuels production in Africa (SEKAB-Tanzania and Daewoo-Madagascar) with the aim to establishing more equitable governance strategies.
Black Earth plans Russia grain exports, forward sales
- Bloomberg
- 22 October 2009
Black Earth Farming Ltd., which controls an area of Russian farmland four times the size of New York City, plans to start exporting grain and begin forward sales with traders and fertilizer suppliers.