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"We acknowledge that farmland investments have implications for the people and the natural environment in the places where we invest," says Ulrika Danielson, head of communications and HR at the Second Swedish National Pension Fund (AP2) in Stockholm
"We acknowledge that farmland investments have implications for the people and the natural environment in the places where we invest" --Ulrika Danielson, head of communications and HR at the Second Swedish National Pension Fund (AP2) in Stockholm
Palm Oil Whole Sale Market at the Bush Meat and Palm Oil Sellers Association, Bo, Sierra Leone (Photo: Paul McNamara).
Eduardo Elsztain, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of IRSA Investments and Representations (IRSA). Cresud is the farmland subsidiary of IRSA, one of Argentina's largest farmland owners. Cresud operates in Brazil through its subsidiary BrasilAgro (Photo: Reuters/Enrique Marcarian).
Panel entitled "Dealing with the Race for Agricultural Land" at the Global Economic Symposium (GES) in Kiel, Germany, 6 October 2011.
Kenyan Minister for Lands, Mr. James Orengo told the Forum that Africa’s exports to the world market had remarkably declined in the last 10 years, mainly due to protectionist policies adopted by the industrialized countries. “This is the crux of the scramble for Africa’s arable land, as it is now apparently clear, that industrialized countries are willing to receive agricultural exports from Africa, only when such products are produced by their own multinationals.”
“We are not here to cry wolf about land grabs but we are here to discuss the management of land in Africa,” former president of Botswana Festus Mogae said
As well as the US, Australia and Brazil, TIAA CREF has a smaller level of farmland investments in Poland and Romania.
