Swedish pension buffer fund AP2 and US pension fund manager TIAA-CREF have formed a joint venture to invest at least US$500 million in farmland in the US, Australia and Brazil.
Faute d’investissements suffisants, moins de 10 % des terres gérées par l’Office du Niger, plus grand projet d’aménagement hydroagricole de toute l’Afrique de l’Ouest, sont exploités. Pour développer la zone, Bamako tente, tant bien que mal, de faire appel aux capitaux privés.
L'agriculture roumaine intéresse de plus en plus les investisseurs étrangers. Les autorités sont en train de s’en rendre compte et souhaitent prendre la situation en main.
En visite privée dans le Pays des Khmers, la parlementaire européenne Cecilia Wikström a constaté de nombreuses violations des droits humains et d’accaparement des terres des villageois par les sociétés sucrières
Ram Karuturi says he is targeting to acquire up to a million hectares of land in Ethiopia and other parts of Africa to build an integrated global agri-product company.
Ukraine plans to lift a ban on the sale of farmland next year, Le Monde reported, citing an interview with Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk.
If the early reports are anything to go by, the Bangladeshi deals already incorporate many elements that suggest they are being done in a way likely to engender fierce resentment and opposition in the African countries concerned.
El debate sobre la venta de de tierras rurales a extranjeros tiene larga data. Casi todos los bloques políticos han promovido iniciativas en el Congreso, pero ninguna ha logrado trascender y convertirse en ley. A tres semanas de que el Poder Ejecutivo enviase un proyecto propio para limitar el dominio por parte de extranjeros, la norma aguarda ser discutida en las comisiones de Legislación General y de Agricultura de la Cámara de Diputados.
Mykola Pryssiajniouk, ministre ukrainien de l'Agriculture cité lundi par le quotidien Le Monde, a décidé de lever le moratoire sur la vente de terres agricoles en Ukraine.
Inversionistas chilenos han incrementado la adquisición de tierras agrícolas en la costa peruana debido a la alta productividad y rentabilidad que tiene el sector.
Regulators are warning that a new real estate bubble may be forming across the US grain belt -- and National Australia Bank is right in the middle.
Colombia plans to nearly double agricultural land growing crops for food and biofuel, part of a new investment boom in the country as violence ebbs from a decades-long internal conflict fueled by drug profits.
According to the legislation, Kazakhstan has the right to lease land to foreigners for a period of 10 years says Vice Minister of Agriculture Saktash Khassenov
Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have united to draft laws to limit acquisition by foreigners of extensive tracts of their fertile agricultural land.
Of the produce, 20 percent will go to the government of Uganda, and the remaining will be sent to Bangladesh with a profit of 10 percent plus production cost, says Nitol-Niloy Group
