This year could see a surge in interest in farmland from investors with very little experience in this complicated asset class, reports Euromoney
- Euromoney
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13 January 2014
A poorly performing bonds environment has led AP Pension to set up its own special agricultural investment fund and buy its first farm.
Civil society organizations in Nampula disown the accord and declarations made during the Japanese prime minister's recent visit to Mozambique
Cofco makes offer for stake in Nidera, which produces soybeans on over 20,000 ha in Argentina.
- Wall Street Journal
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13 January 2014
Farmers and civil society organizations respond strongly over large scale agricultural program, planned in the north area of Mozambique, which will be lead by Japan cooperating with Brazil.
- Kyodo News
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13 January 2014
Africa is being heralded as the new frontier for commercial farming but, as governments and investors sign deals, a counter-movement of family farmers is promoting alternative pathways to development.
A major reason for Japan's investment and agricultural land development are the moves being made by China.
- Asahi Shimbun
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13 January 2014
Cargill has doled out $200 million for a stake in UkrLandFarming, Ukraine’s largest agribusiness holding, in a potentially far-reaching deal that sources said would see both groups partner up in future grain exports to China and other growing markets.
- Kyiv Post
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13 January 2014
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is on a mission of business diplomacy in his current trip to Africa to secure valuable natural resources for Japan.
- Asahi Shimbun
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13 January 2014
Investigation says loan to Honduran palm oil magnate, alleged to be linked to activist deaths, violated bank's rules.
- Al Jazeera
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12 January 2014
The unconstitutional government land program may be the most painful tragedy for the framers of southern and western Ethiopia that they can ever tell, if they are allowed to tell it.
- Afrogadaa
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11 January 2014
The Ethiopian Investment Agency (EIA) has withdrawn 3,000 investment permits that it had previously granted to Ethiopian and foreign companies, including Karuturi Global Ltd.
- Africa Intelligence
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10 January 2014