Sweden

Land grabbing in Africa: global resource scarcity and competition for survival
- SIANI
- 18 October 2011
Workshop at Uppsala University, Sweden, on 21 October 2011
Food finance: Founding farmers
- Euromoney
- 06 October 2011
Asset owners and managers are signing up to a series of principles on how they invest in agricultural land. Will this mollify critics of the land grab? Nick Lord reports.
Sun Biofuels jatropha project in Kisarawe suspended
- Tanzania Daily News
- 03 October 2011
The EU lured many multinational energy companies such as SBF to invest in renewable energies in developing countries such Tanzania where almost all projects are on the verge of collapse or shut down.
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