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Get ready for Chinese overseas investment in agriculture
- Choices
- 07 April 2015
As China becomes a large importer, its food security strategy calls for gaining control over imports from their source.
New Mexico Investment Council makes first major agriculture move
- IP & Real Estate
- 27 February 2015
The US sovereign wealth fund has approved a $200m allocation to TIAA-CREF’s Global Agriculture II fund, its first major commitment to the sector.
US firm eyes Aussie crops
- The Land
- 26 February 2015
California-based Finistere Ventures is in Australia speaking to potential backers after its first close of a new $US150 million venture capital fund. The Finistere II Agtech (agricultural technology) Fund has secured the backing of German giant Bayer CropScience, as well as Canadian investment firm AVAC.
Americans biggest buyers of New Zealand land since 2010
- NZ City
- 29 January 2015
Americans were the biggest buyers of New Zealand land in the past five years, although buyers from China topped the list in 2014.
Institutional, impact investing find common ground in agriculture
- Institutional Investor
- 23 January 2015
Farmland investments such as the new ACM Permanent Crop Fund can attract institutions by combining social responsibility and commercial promise.
US: Fight foreign ownership of Wisconsin farmland (Part 2)
- Agri-View
- 22 January 2015
The foreign-ownership debate is relatively recent and, as noted below, it is not at all clear who is seeking to repeal the existing legal restrictions on the foreign ownership of Wisconsin farmland.
San Diego County unveils 2015 alternatives commitment pacing targets
- P&I
- 16 January 2015
San Diego County Employees Retirement Association plans to commit $275 million to $400 million to real assets including agriculture, mining, energy and timber in 2015.
Fight foreign ownership of Wisconsin farmland
- Agri-View
- 15 January 2015
The foreign ownership of agricultural land is a significant issue in many countries and is gaining increasing attention here in the United States.
Will the White House change course on the New Alliance?
- ActionAid
- 14 January 2015
What Obama administration officials need to realize is that the G8 New Alliance is fueling a rapidly growing trend where investors based in African cities are rapidly grabbing up land in rural communities by whatever means they can.
Invasion of the hedge fund almonds
- Mother Jones
- 12 January 2015
It takes a gallon of water to produce one almond. And that's not the most insane fact about the mad dash to plant the thirsty trees in the middle of a catastrophic drought in California.
Friction in American Samoa over farming programme
- RNZ
- 28 October 2014
American Samoan farmers have repeated their fears to the Governor that foreign farmers are buying up land and cashing in on government programmes to the detriment of locals.
Land & resource grabs in the United States: Five sites of struggle and potential transformation
- Food First
- 24 October 2014
Briefing identifies five strategic “nexuses” to help understand how land converges with historically embedded power relations in the United States.