Who's deep into real assets?
- aiCIO
- 08 August 2012
Joe Azelby, JP Morgan’s head of Global Real Assets, is seeing a structural shift in many institutional portfolios toward real assets, including farmland.
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Ethiopia provides 71,000 hectares to investors
- Ethiopian News Agency
- 08 August 2012
Ethiopia has provided more than 71,000 hectares to 12 Ethiopian and international investors in the previous financial year according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
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Farm Lands of Africa announces execution of an agreement for the acquisition of Buddhavarapu Farms SA
- Farm Lands of Africa
- 07 August 2012
BFS has a land bank of 220,000 hectares under a Protocol d’Accord from the government of the Republic of Guinea
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Thailand: Rice policy drives land claw-back
- The Nation
- 07 August 2012
Thailand's Department of Special Investigation chief Tarit Pengdith said his department had not found any instances of foreigners owning farms or growing rice via nominees. Farming is forbidden to foreigners under the Foreign Business Act.
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Zambia: State launches agro investment platform
- Daily Mail
- 07 August 2012
African Development Bank (AfDB) country director, Freddie Kwesiga, said the co-operating partners look forward to specific interventions to ensure improved land tenure and equitable access to land by partnerships of small, medium and large-scale investors.
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Commercial viability & value creation in West African palm oil production
- Hardman & Co
- 06 August 2012
Overview of the palm oil sector in West Africa - major players (Siva, SIAT, Sime Darby, SIFCA, Bolloré, Olam...), hectarage under foreign corporate control, etc.
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Annual Monitoring Report on the Operations of Addax Bioenergy by the Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF) for the Period June 2011 – June 2012
- Silnorf
- 06 August 2012
The Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food has published an Annual Monitoring Report on the sugarcane-to-ethanol project of the Swiss firm Addax Bioenergy. Some positive changes are acknowledged by SiLNoRF, e.g. on employment. However, there are still many issues of concern, such as communities asking for a written agreement from Addax to prevent it from using more than the demarcated land.
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Australia turns anti-China
- Live Trading News
- 06 August 2012
Leading Australian economists, commentators and even political enemies have joined the federal Minister for Trade and Investment Craig Emerson in condemning Opposition plans to tighten control over foreign investment.
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Q+A: Transcript of Fred Pearce interview
- Voxy
- 05 August 2012
Jessica Mutch spoke to Fred Pearce in London about the Crafar farm buy-up by a Chinese company and whether New Zealand should be nervous about land grabbing.
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Australian opposition eyes foreign investment scrutiny
- AFP
- 03 August 2012
Australia's conservative opposition on Friday earmarked tighter scrutiny of foreign investment in agriculture as a priority if the party is elected to government next year, as recent polls suggest.
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Protesters disrupt Board of Regents meeting, want Rastetter removed
- The Gazette
- 03 August 2012
Group says regent abused position in pursuing relationship between Iowa State University and Ratsetter's agribusiness corporation, which is developing a farming operation in Tanzania.
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Bangladesh to lease Sudanese farmland
- Daily Star
- 03 August 2012
Bangladesh yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South Sudan to take a 10-year lease on Sudanese farmland to grow crops aimed at ensuring food security of both the countries.
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