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Profits lure investors to farmland In Arkansas
- Arkansas Business
- 19 November 2012
Continued economic uncertainties are prompting a back-to-the-land movement among investors. And a favored choice of land is farmland.
Oil palm firm, group clash over land grab
- All Voices
- 18 November 2012
Oil palm giant, Wilmar Nigeria Limited, and the Rainforest Resource and Development Centre (RRDC), an environmental rights group, are currently at logger heads over a massive land grab in a rural community in Cross River State, Southern Nigeria.
African pension funds: The missing link to African development?
- Huffington Post
- 17 November 2012
Africa is regarded as the New Eldorado, and is attracting many foreign based private or public investment companies, sovereign wealth funds and even pension funds gradually. Sadly, while foreigners continue to play a major role in growth investments, African pension funds' contributions to this growth are dismal.
Agco targets Africa’s agriculture boom with $100 million plan
- Bloomberg
- 16 November 2012
Agco Corp. (AGCO), the world’s third- largest farm-equipment maker, plans to invest $100 million in Africa over the next three years to capitalize on an agricultural boom and a shift to commercial farming.
US food giant Bunge accused over biofuel 'tainted with Indian blood'
- Survival
- 15 November 2012
US food giant Bunge has been implicated in a sugarcane scandal in Brazil that has kept an entire indigenous community off its land, polluted streams and inflicted illness and death on Guarani Indians.
Dubai’s AWGAL in talks to purchase Texas cattle farms
- Arabian Business
- 14 November 2012
Dubai-based AWGAL Investments is in advanced talks with farmers in Texas to invest in cattle farms to produce Halal-certified US beef for the GCC and MENA region.
The great Africa land grab
- The Ecologist
- 14 November 2012
Oxfam’s Phil Bloomer reports on the shocking scandal of (mostly) secretive land-grabbing, usually from those least able to defend their rights.
Chinese secure northern foodbowl as row over Ord River lease continues
- The Australian
- 14 November 2012
Chinese property development conglomerate Shanghai Zhongfu has won the sole right to develop 15,200ha of high-value irrigated agricultural land in northern Australia..
Adecoagro data raise fears over Argentine farmland
- Agrimoney
- 14 November 2012
Adecoagro, the South American farm operator backed by George Soros and Dwight Anderson, said that growth in the value of its huge land portfolio slowed to 5.6%, fuelling concerns over the impact of Argentine curbs on foreign investors.
Spotlight on "land grab" deals
- IRIN
- 14 November 2012
A new study puts "land-grab" deals into the context of agricultural investments more generally.
Carlyle Group to make Africa investment
- Wall Street Journal
- 13 November 2012
Carlyle is part of a small group of investors that will inject $210 million into Export Trading Group, a Tanzania-based agricultural company that controls at least 60,000 hectares of farmland in Africa.
Louis Dreyfus lifts the lid on its ag operations
- Agrimoney
- 13 November 2012
Louis Dreyfus lifted the lid on commodities operations such as its 45 orange groves, and unveiled a healthy appetite for investment, as, after 160 years, it unveiled its first public results statement.