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African farming is the new frontier for brave investors
- Telegraph
- 15 June 2014
For private equity houses, pension funds and family offices, the sprawling farms of sub Saharan Africa are the new land of plenty.
Investing in Frontier Africa with Paddy Docherty, CEO, Phoenix Africa (Video)
- African Business Central
- 13 June 2014
Phoenix Africa CEO Paddy Docherty interviewed by the FT This is Africa, about frontier investing in Africa.
Commerical land grabs threaten global food ecosystem
- Al Jazeera
- 12 June 2014
To end extreme poverty, support smallholder farmers -- not multinational agribusinesses
UK pension fund investments linked with land grabbing and risk
- Blue & Green
- 12 June 2014
UK pensions funds and asset management companies potentially have up to £37 billion invested in ‘land grabs’ worldwide, according to a report published by Friends of the Earth.
Liberian politician speaks out against landgrabbing
- FOEi
- 11 June 2014
Byron Browne, Member of Parliament from Grand Bassa County, Liberia, has lambasted the government for protecting investors rather than the rights of its own people.
Finance, real estate investors pour money into agriculture
- VietNamNet
- 11 June 2014
Vietnamese businessmen, who have earned high profits with their finance and real estate investment deals, are now rushing to pour money into agriculture projects.
MIGA and OPIC team to unlock investments in African agriculture
- Devex
- 11 June 2014
A US government agency, a World Bank Group member and a private equity fund plan to help half a million small-scale farmers boost yields and improve food security in sub-Saharan Africa.
UBS launches farmland investment service
- Financial Standard
- 10 June 2014
UBS Global Asset Management has established an Australia and New Zealand farmland investment advisory service to meet the growing institutional demand for assets, particularly from Asia.
Cambodia's Tep Vanny: 'I am ready to die for justice'
- Asia Calling
- 09 June 2014
Across Cambodia developers are seizing valuable pieces of land, throw the existing community out, and after protests ebb away, building new developments on them: malls and apartments for the newly rich.
Foreclosure notice forces Karuturi to pay off 25 percent debt
- The Reporter
- 07 June 2014
The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia is pressuring Karuturi Global Ltd to repay a credit provision of 65 million birr (US$3.3 million).
Our land, our future
- SESDev
- 06 June 2014
From May 26th-28th Liberian communities impacted by palm oil came together to share their experiences and discuss their hopes for the future.
Grow Africa sees local agribusiness improving
- Daily News
- 06 June 2014
Government of Tanzania pilots a win-win deal whereby communities receive a 10% shareholding in Bagamoyo EcoEnergy Ltd. in exchange for a 99-year lease of their land free from encumbrance.