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Farmland investment booming in Africa
- AltAssets
- 08 September 2011
"As investors we always want to be on the correct side of global macro trends, and whatever China needs or is buying lots of, we want to own as investments."
US company looking to farm rice in Nigeria and Tanzania left trail of devastation in Kenya
- GRAIN
- 07 September 2011
The people living on the lands now being targeted by US-owned Dominion Farms can learn a lot from the film Good Fortune, which provides a behind-the-scenes account of the struggle of a local community in Kenya to defend their lands from this company.
Simmering tension over forest give-away
- IRIN
- 07 September 2011
A plan to replace a large swathe of protected rainforest in Uganda with sugarcane could lead to further civil unrest in a year when nine people have been killed during strikes and protests against the rising cost of living.
AEW Capital launches unit to acquire farmland
- Boston Business Journal
- 07 September 2011
AEW Capital Management of Boston is launching a new investment division to acquire farmland in the United States and Canada.
Making investment work for Africa: A Parliamentarian response to “land grabs”
- PAP
- 07 September 2011
Report from the seminar on foreign investment in agricultural land and water, organized by the Pan African Parliament
Foreign bid for slice of sugar
- Daily Mercury
- 07 September 2011
While foreign investment is nothing new in the Australian sugar industry, the rate at which foreign companies have been pouring money into the industry has caused some concern among canegrowers.
Pension funds launch Principles for Responsible Investment in Farmland
- UNPRI
- 06 September 2011
A group of institutional investors representing US$1.3 trillion in assets have today launched the Principles for Responsible Investment in Farmland (the “Farmland Principles”).
Karuturi to plant 20,000 hectares by November
- Capital Ethiopia
- 06 September 2011
Karuturi Global plans to plant 20,000 hectares of land with Sorghum, rice, maize, sunflower and soybeans in Bako area of Oromia regional state and Gambella regional state, by November 2011
Investments in Ethiopia farming face criticism from activists
- Livemint
- 06 September 2011
As Indian businessmen bet on cash crops, it’s unclear whether food security issues are being tackled
AgriSol & Serengeti Advisers: Land Grabbers ?
- Udadisi
- 06 September 2011
The debate on large scale land acquisition in Tanzania is far from over as there is a changing dynamic now as local investors team up in joint venture with foreign investors and we are made to believe that since we have one of our own in the investment venture our interests are taken care of.
Agrifirma looks abroad after $80m Brazil tie-up
- Agrimoney
- 05 September 2011
Agrifirma Brazil, the well-connected farmland investment company, is investigating opportunities outside South America after placing most of its Brazilian agriculture operations into a joint venture with private equity heavyweight.
New frontier palm oil players look to RSPO
- Reuters
- 05 September 2011
African and South American palm oil players are flocking to join the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, highlighting a growing trend of the industry’s rapid expansion outside main producing region Southeast Asia