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Macquarie adds to its holdings in WA farmland
- Central Advocate
- 27 Mar 2014
Investment bank Macquarie Group is buying two farms in Australia's "wheatbelt" bringing its total holdings in Western Australia to 45,000 ha.
Asian investors want $1bn farm deals but sector not ready
- The Australian
- 26 Mar 2014
Foreign companies, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds are ready and willing to invest in the Australian farm sector, but many parts of the industry are still not investment-ready.
Large land deals reportedly fruitless
- Capital
- 26 Mar 2014
A new report by the International Institute for Environment and Development about large-scale land deals in Ethiopia states that allocating land to investors has not shown a lot of benefits.
“We will not cede our land to the Italians’ tractors”
- La Stampa
- 25 Mar 2014
Senegalese herders resist a project with very obscure objectives
COFCO buys 51% of Nidera
- World Grain
- 24 Mar 2014
COFCO's purchase of Dutch trader and farm operator Nidera is the largest ever international acquisition in the history of the Chinese agricultural industry.
The best long-term real estate investment: Farmland
- CNBC
- 24 Mar 2014
As in many emerging markets, farmland investing in Bulgaria is essentially a consolidation play.
Olam boosts rice farming
- This Day
- 24 Mar 2014
Olam's Nigerian subsidiary has completed arrangements to expand its rice plantation in Nasarawa State from 3,000 ha to 6,000 ha.
Philippines: Malaysian firm to turn land around Maguindanao massacre site into plantation
- Inquirer
- 22 Mar 2014
Univex will invest $10 million to convert lands around the site of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre into a banana plantation and agricultural complex
Is Liberia's president going cold on the palm oil industry?
- Reuters
- 21 Mar 2014
Does a recent decision by Sirleaf signal a change of heart for a leader who has signed 30% of Liberia’s land over to foreign investors - with 1.5 million acres for palm oil companies?
Governing the land rush in Africa
- The Broker
- 21 Mar 2014
CIFOR scientist argues that failure to accept large-scale farmland investments as a new economic reality in Africa will hold back the development of effective institutional and regulatory frameworks.
Three companies to be split-off from Lithuanian Invalda
- Baltic Course
- 21 Mar 2014
17 companies owned by NASDAQ traded Invalda LT, holding about 3,000 ha to be transferred to new company INVL Baltic Farmland.
African govts give away continent’s natural heritage, acre by acre
- East African
- 21 Mar 2014
A look at recent mega land deals in Africa reveals a trend dubbed a ‘dangerous grab’ of the resource upon which the continent’s poor people depend for survival.