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Involving local farmers is key to success of foreign investment
- FAO
- 13 November 2012
New FAO report focuses on investments in developing countries, urging caution on large-scale land acquisitions
Foreign investment in farmland: No low-hanging fruit
- Deutsche Bank
- 13 November 2012
Report by Deutsche Bank examines the global rush for land
Singapore group buys Queensland farms
- AFR
- 12 November 2012
Duxton Asset Management has bought more than 800 hectares of Australian fruit orchards for a discount of more than 50 per cent from receivers of failed managed investment scheme Rewards Group and listed land owner Ark Fund.
Investors look to farmland as tangible, stable asset
- AgWire
- 12 November 2012
With the ups and downs of the stock market in the past few years and the boom in the rural economy, institutional investors are looking at farmland as a tangible, stable asset to have in their portfolio.
South African farm worker strikes reminiscent of the mine workers dispute
- Land Commodities
- 12 November 2012
Could a recent farm workers dispute in, De Doorns, a wine region in the Western Cape in South Africa, become the agriculture equivalent of the Lonmin's platinum mine dispute?
New Zealanders fearful about foreign agricultural investment
- Land Commodities
- 10 November 2012
New research indicates that foreign ownership of farmland and other rural real estate in New Zealand may be closer to 10%, significantly higher than a recent conflicting estimate of 1.5%.
Land motion sparks hot debate in House
- Guardian
- 09 November 2012
A heated debate ensued yesterday in Tanzania's Parliament after Kawe lawmaker Halima Mdee moved a private motion calling on the House to adopt a resolution pressing the government to suspend the allocation of huge chunks of land for investment to foreigners.
African land grab is a myth, says China expert
- CityWire
- 09 November 2012
Chinese land grabs in Africa are a media myth, according to regional expert Professor Deborah Brautigam.
Canada’s new corn belt attracts hot money to bargain farmland
- Bloomberg
- 08 November 2012
“Every day I field calls from potential investors, from pension funds, from family businesses that want to buy” from inside and outside Canada, said Doug Emsley, president of Assiniboia Capital Corp.
Chinese firm's farmland purchase sparks fears
- ABC
- 08 November 2012
An Australian farmer has voiced concerns about a Chinese company's $29 million purchase of 23,000 ha of prime, grain-growing land in Western Australia's south.
The corporate take-over of African food security
- Pambazuka
- 08 November 2012
There is a new, but deceptive, foreign drive to end hunger in Africa through large-scale agribusiness.
The future of finance is in... farming. For real.
- Institutional Investor
- 08 November 2012
A new report by PRI offers some really useful information for investors interested in accessing farmland opportunities, with five case studies of funds making farmland investments.