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Manulife AM steps up sales effort in Japan
- Asian Investor
- 20 December 2012
The fund house aims to capitalise on Japanese pension plans' growing interest in new investment types, including Asian fixed income and certain alternatives like farmland
Land grab by MNCs in Africa cause for concern: Experts
- The Hindu
- 19 December 2012
The controversy regarding India’s permission to allow foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail and growing “land grab” in Africa by multinational corporations are being closely watched globally by agriculture experts, researchers and donors.
Canadian pension fund likes NZ forest growing conditions, access to Asian markets
- Business Desk
- 19 December 2012
Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board is looking to capitalise on favourable growing conditions and access to Asian markets having taken a 30 percent stake in the central North Island's Kaingaroa forestry estate.
Moving beyond misconceptions: A critical review of Korean investment in Cambodia 2012
- Heinrich Böll Foundation
- 19 December 2012
“Moving beyond misconceptions: Korean investment in Cambodia” is a series of three reports. It comprises a critical review of Korean investment in Cambodia as well as two extensive investment case studies, one in mining (Kenertec) and the other in agri-business (MH Ethanol).
Commission will report over 300 land grabs to Myanmar MPs
- Myanmar Times
- 17 December 2012
A government commission formed to identify farmland ownership disputes will bring over 300 cases of land grabs to the attention of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw before the next session begins.
Grabbing at solutions: Water for the hungry first
- National Geographic
- 14 December 2012
This piece is part of "Water Grabbers: A Global Rush on Freshwater", a special National Geographic News series on how grabbing land—and water—from poor people, desperate governments, and future generations threatens global food security, environmental sustainability, and local cultures.
Land conflicts in Tete and Gaza
- Joseph Hanlon
- 14 December 2012
The NGO FONGA claims that 80,000 people will be thrown off the land by Wanbao, a Chinese company that signed a concession for 20,000 ha in Gaza Provice Mozambique for rice production.
Cameroon: Campaigners oppose industrial palm oil plantation
- IRIN
- 14 December 2012
Campaigners opposed to a large palm oil plantation in a rainforest covering part of the Korup National Park in southwestern Cameroon say up to 45,000 people risk losing their livelihoods if the project proceeds.
Sime Darby’s response to report by Basta! and Friends of the Earth Liberia
- Sime Darby
- 14 December 2012
"If the populace objects, we will not develop the land," says Sime Darby
Why Africa’s agribusiness sector holds potential for private equity
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
- 13 December 2012
Ander Einarsson, a partner at Phatisa and the team leader responsible for the Feronia deal, answered a few of How we made it in Africa’s questions.
Interview with GRAIN on the ProSavana project
- EJOLT
- 13 December 2012
Imagine a land of 14 million hectares, bigger than Switzerland and Austria combined. Populated by millions of farming families that together practice shifting cultivation. Now imagine a foreign consultant saying that all of these are abandoned lands.
Swedish fund stokes Australia farm-buying spree
- Agrimoney
- 12 December 2012
A Swedish pension fund has become the latest of a series of purchasers of Australian farmland, a buying spree which has fuelled public concerns, and raised discussion over curbs on foreign ownership.