Investors are buying Canadian agricultural land, betting that rising food prices, a ballooning global population and growing worldwide scarcities in farmland will mean a payoff for them.
Seeds, land and fertilizer are among the top places food and agriculture executives and economists said they would put their money, betting on global population growth.
China’s largest agricultural company plans to acquire 200,000 hectares of land in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Australia, the Philippines, Zimbabwe and Russia in 2011.
- Fresh Fruit Portal
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15 Mar 2011
French farm investor AgroGeneration aims to double its business in Ukraine and make a foray in Argentina.
Responsible agricultural investment should recognise and respect land and related resource rights, says head of the research and information department at South Africa’s Industrial Development Corporation
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
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15 Mar 2011
With rising food and energy prices there is no reason to think that this rush to acquire agricultural land in the developing world will end anytime soon.
David Murrin, CIO at Emergent Asset Management, stresses the difficulties of jumping aboard the African growth story. "It is very hard to take advantage of the tremendous growth in African agriculture and that's why private equity investment is so important, it helps capture some of that growth," he says.
- Wall Street Journal
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14 Mar 2011
The FAO High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition held an online consultation on land tenure and international investments in agriculture from 24 January to 11 February 2011.
Paper by Nadia Cuffaro (University of Cassino) and David Hallam (FAO)
Australian companies are interested in making investment in Pakistan’s agriculture sector from production of crops to their processing and export.
- Pakistan Observer
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13 Mar 2011
The UAE and other Gulf states in collaboration with Singapore companies are entering the Chinese agriculture market to ensure food security.
- Emirates 24/7
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12 Mar 2011
Beidahuang, one of the China's leading vehicles for the purchase of foreign agricultural properties, will buy 200,000 hectares of farmland overseas this year, with Latin America and South East Asia as the target areas.
