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Pension funds seek out agricultural assets
- Global Pensions
- 24 November 2009
Pension funds are seeking out agricultural and commodity-related assets that offer diversification from traditional asset classes and superior returns to listed equities.
OECD: Pressures on West African land
- OECD
- 24 November 2009
In response to increased commercial interest in West African land, the Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC/OECD) is leading a regional dialogue with key stakeholders in Bamako on 9 December 2009
OCDE : Pressions sur les terres ouest-africaines
- OCDE
- 24 November 2009
Le Secrétariat du Club du Sahel et de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (CSAO/OCDE) s’est engagé dans l’animation d’un dialogue autour des pressions sur les terres ouest-africaines.
Wikileaks: UAE develops food security policy
- Wikileaks
- 24 November 2009
"Al Shariqi said that while the government does not have foreign agricultural investments, some UAE sheikhs personally own land in Pakistan, Egypt, Australia and New Zealand," reports the US mission in Abu Dhabi
Al-Amoudi’s efforts to initiate Saudi agro investments
- Addis Fortune
- 24 November 2009
Sources close to Al-Amoudi said that the king has shown an interest in seeing other Saudi companies involved in rice farming after seeing the samples presented by Al-Amoudi
Morocco - Drop in foreign farm investment
- Meat Trade Daily
- 24 November 2009
At a two-day conference near the Moroccan capital Rabat, local officials sought to convince Gulf investors that heavy bureaucracy and complex land ownership rules, long seen as decisive obstacles, are a thing of the past.
Brasil rechazó propuesta iraní de compra de tierras
- Reuters
- 23 November 2009
Brasil rechazó una propuesta de Irán para comprar o arrendar áreas agrícolas brasileñas para la producción de alimentos y la venta directa al país islámico
Brasil recusa proposta do Irã de compra de terras
- Reuters
- 23 November 2009
O Brasil recusou uma proposta feita pelo Irã de compra ou arrendamento de áreas agrícolas brasileiras, com vistas à produção de alimentos e sua venda direta ao país islâmico
Extraterritoriality - Foreign Concessions: the Past and Future of a Form of Shared Sovereignty
- EspacesTemps.net
- 23 November 2009
China has now taken on a leading role in promoting modernization through zones of exception, not only in China but also outside it.
Pharos $350m argriculture fund targets Middle East investors
- Emerging Markets
- 23 November 2009
The Pharos Miro Agricultural fund, with a minimum subscription of $6m, is being offered to family offices, private equity groups and other investors across the Middle East.
For Sale signs nailed to our Aussie icons
- The Telegraph
- 23 November 2009
Foreign companies are covertly buying up adjacent farms in Australia to use as a "salad bowl" in the case of global food shortages.
The ultimate crop rotation
- Washington Post
- 23 November 2009
Lured by a new business model, wealthy nations flock to farmland in Ethiopia, locking in food supplies grown half a world away
Ethiopia: land of tomorrow
- YouTube
- 21 November 2009
Documentary highlighting the investment opportunities in Ethiopia, produced for the Saudi-East African Forum.
IFC lends a hand in great "land grab"
- Bretton Woods Project
- 20 November 2009
As the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank, announces plans to increase investment in agribusiness by up to 30 per cent in the next three years, NGO reports shed light on the IFC's role in the 'land grab' movement and flaws in its approach to the food crisis.
Is there such a thing as agro-imperialism?
- New York Times
- 19 November 2009
There’s a whole school of economic thought that says that Collier is wrong, that big is not necessarily better in agriculture — and that the land deals therefore might be unwise not because they’re wrong but because they’re unprofitable.