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ETF may stand for exchange-traded farmland
- Financial Post
- 19 January 2012
Canada could soon get its first exchange-traded farmland management stock.
West Africa: The downside of foreign land acquisitions
- IRIN
- 19 January 2012
Population growth and rising consumption by a minority of people around the world are fuelling global land acquisitions and Africa is a “prime target”, says the International Land Coalition.
Foreign ownership report a whitewash: Cobb
- Stock & Land
- 19 January 2012
A new report from ABARES which indicates little change in the level of foreign ownership of Australian farm land since the 1980s has been described as a "whitewash" by Shadow Agriculture and Food Security Minister, John Cobb.
Bahrain firm inks $50m Philippines farm deal
- Manama
- 19 January 2012
Bahrain’s Nadir and Ibrahim Sons of Hassan Group has signed a $50 million agriculture investment deal with AMA Group Holdings to use public land to grow crops including sugar, rice and bananas.
Resolving the food crisis: Assessing global policy reforms since 2007
- GDAE-IATP
- 18 January 2012
Report calls for international community to enact reforms aimed at reducing financial speculation on commodities markets, limiting the further expansion of crops and land dedicated to biofuels, and halting “land grabs”.
Stanchart Africa invests Sh6.4b in export firm
- The Standard
- 18 January 2012
Standard Chartered Bank’s Private Equity division has invested $74 million to acquire a minority stake in ETC Group Mauritius, one of the largest owners of African farmland.
At least 70,000 forced off their land in Ethiopia, rights group reports
- Toronto Star
- 18 January 2012
Ethiopia has forced at least 70,000 people off their land so it can lease fertile fields to foreign investors, a move that has left some locals starving in barren, remote villages.
11pc of farm land foreign-owned
- ABC
- 18 January 2012
A report from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural Research Economic and Sciences shows the amount of farmland that is either partly or wholly foreign-owned has increased by nearly 60 per cent since the early 1980s.
Much ado about a Daewoo subsidiary
- Indian Ocean Newsletter
- 18 January 2012
Daewoo says its capital increase in its subsidiary in Madagascar will be used to pay operating expenses and to finance market studies concerning its future investments, mainly chicken farming and public construction works.
Foreign Investment and Australian Agriculture
- ABARES
- 18 January 2012
Report examines the driving factors behind foreign investment in Australian agriculture and describes processes by which foreign investment in farmland is monitored and regulated in Australia and other selected countries.
Tajikistan to lease farmland to Chinese
- Central Asia Online
- 18 January 2012
Tajikistan says it will allow Chinese farmers to rent 200ha of southern Tajik farmland.
Bonnefield Canadian Farmland Corp. announces filing of preliminary prospectus for initial public offering
- Bonnefield
- 18 January 2012
The Company has been established to provide investors with a liquid investment in primarily Canadian farmland and will seek to assemble a farmland portfolio which is diversified as to geography, crop type and farmer.