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Harvesting opportunities on foreign soil
- China Daily
- 04 December 2012
More Chinese companies and individuals are looking for sources of growth in the rich land of Russia's Far East region.
American and European pension funds seeking place for their money
- Nikkei
- 04 December 2012
The results of pension funds’ alternative investments have been passable so far. In the case of farmland, at the end of last year the average total annual return over a 10 year period was more than 10%.
From Doha to Dakar, food insecurity is the norm
- IPS
- 04 December 2012
As African countries struggle to make use of their vast land resources to improve food production because of climate change, Qatar, like other Gulf States and emerging economies such as China, is leasing and buying land in Africa.
It's 2 am in Africa -- Do you know what your pension fund is doing there?
- Oakland Institute
- 04 December 2012
New report from Oakland Institute looks at private equity funds betting heavily on agriculture
Liberian communities statement on expansion of Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum plantations
- SDI
- 03 December 2012
Over 150 community representatives from four counties in Liberia gathered to discuss their experiences and concerns regarding the impact of oil palm plantations on their livelihoods and communities.
Live or drive, a choice has to be made
- Basta !
- 03 December 2012
A case study of Sime Darby operations in Liberia by Sophie Chapelle
Brazil farmland prices quadrupled over the past decade outpacing inflation
- MercoPress
- 03 December 2012
Prices for farmland in Brazil surged by an average 14% a year to nearly quadruple over the past decade, well outpacing inflation and nearly matching gains made by São Paulo's blue-chip Ibovespa stock index, a new study shows.
Resisting Sime Darby: Oil palm development slammed at Gbarpolu conference
- FrontPageAfrica
- 02 December 2012
Citizens at a conference in Bopolu expressed strong opposition to planned oil-palm development by Sime Darby in Gbarpolu County.
Letter and resolution of the landholding families, Malen Chiefdom, Sierra Leone
- MALOA
- 01 December 2012
Community members defy intimidation and arrests and appeal for international support in their struggle to stop SOCFIN from operating on lands the company acquired without their consent.
Shaikh Khalid Al Khalifa: Turning Arab investment into Africa requires guaranteeing legislation
- BNA
- 01 December 2012
Shaikh Khalid said that the Arab countries have a serious desire to join the African market and benefit from the natural resources ready for investment, particularly in the agricultural field.
Civil society groups to investors: Stop land grabbing
- AkanimoReports
- 30 November 2012
Major farmland investors such as banks and pension funds must stop facilitating land grabs, civil society groups on the eve of a global farmland investment conference in London on December 3-5, have said.
Australian elite seeks to bridge Middle East investment gulf
- WSJ
- 30 November 2012
“When things are mortgaged up to the hilt and the banks are involved then it’s either bank ownership or foreign ownership,” says South Australian sheep farmer Brian Wilson