US

Visionary alternatives to boost food security
- The National
- 08 February 2011
Food security is back on the agenda with a bang, but while countries with money but little land want to invest elsewhere, few efforts are as emotive as a global "land grab".
Soros's Adecoagro plans public offering in US, may sell shares to Qatar
- Bloomberg
- 14 January 2011
Adecoagro SA, a farmland venture in South America that’s backed by billionaire George Soros, plans to raise as much as $429 million in an initial public offering in the US as food prices surge.
Food reserve planned, but imports leave UAE vulnerable
- The National
- 12 January 2011
Several national companies and even the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the capital's sovereign fund, are planning investments in agriculture in countries as diverse as Vietnam, Cambodia, Pakistan, Australia, Romania and the United States.
Des ONG dénoncent des expropriations foncières dans le sud de la Mauritanie
- PANA
- 27 December 2010
Les ONG n'ont pas révélé l'identité des multinationales de l'agro-busness bénéficiaires des attributions foncières en question; toutefois certaines sources parlent de sociétés saoudiennes, soudanaises et même américaines,
TPP negotiations could open NZ up to US land grab
- Green Party
- 06 December 2010
New Zealand’s overseas investment regime will be on the US’ hit list during the Trans Pacific Partnership talks this week.
Investors try new tactic with African agriculture
- Reuters
- 01 December 2010
Profit-hungry investors hope to avoid the stigma and opposition associated with land grabbing by partnering with local business development groups.
Jenaan to plant $500m venture
- The National
- 25 November 2010
Abu Dhabi's Jenaan Investment owns and leases properties in Egypt and Sudan, as well as leasing land in Tanzania, Ethiopia and the US.
From corn to nuts, Optima plans listed farmland REIT
- Reuters
- 09 November 2010
Optima Fund Management is picking up new U.S. farm properties at a brisk pace as it prepares to take public its farmland real estate investment trust.
Agriculture, farmland attracting "impact investors"
- Reuters
- 08 November 2010
Investors eyeing agriculture in global markets are increasingly merging their pursuit of profits with a philanthropic zeal.
Institutional investors eye south-central Idaho farmland
- Times News
- 05 November 2010
Pension funds, foundations and endowments want a hedge against inflation and a safe place for their money.
Private sector interest grows in African farming
- WSJ
- 28 October 2010
Mounting concern over security of food supplies is spurring a wave of private-sector investment in Africa.
Dairy farm sale not in NZ's interests, says Labour
- NZ Herald
- 08 October 2010
The approved sale of a large Otago dairy farm to Harvard University in the United States is not in New Zealand's long-term interests and shows a lack of clear and strong rules on foreign ownership of NZ land, says Labour.