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Land may become top asset class - beating shares
- Agrimoney
- 28 May 2010
Farmland, whose $5,000bn value equates to about 7-10% of the value of world equity markets, could be worth 15-25% of share values by 2020, Hardman & Co analysts say
SilverStreet Fund focuses on agriculture in Africa
- Institutional Investor
- 28 May 2010
Vaughan-Smith and his team of seven professionals are scouting for commercial farms in five countries — Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia — where conditions are deemed to be the most favorable.
Agriculture Outlook Europe: London, 23-25 June 2010
- Terrapinn
- 28 May 2010
"The ONLY place where agriculture businesses and investors come together to discuss farmland investment" says the promoters
Abu Dhabi group enters grape, date hunt
- New Era
- 28 May 2010
Government of Namibia has leased land to Namibia Development Corporation and the Abu Dhabi-based Al Dhahra Agricultural Company to produce farm grapes and dates on a large commercial scale
Gulf states face food crisis
- UPI
- 27 May 2010
NCB Capital estimates that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the main buyers of African land, have acquired some 6 million acres worldwide, largely in Sudan, Pakistan and Indonesia. Other estimates are much higher.
'More Indian cos using S'pore springboard for global ventures'
- PTI
- 27 May 2010
An increasing number of Indian companies are expected to use Singapore as a springboard for their global operations, including overseas farmland investments
A better land grab for China?
- Change.org
- 27 May 2010
Better food and know-how for China, more food for Singapore: if the deal actually comes to pass, it strikes me as a fairly solid bargain, writes Te-Ping Chen.
Argentina welcomes Saudi agricultural investment
- Arab News
- 27 May 2010
Argentina will welcome investment from Saudi Arabia in its agricultural sector so the Kingdom can guarantee its own food security, the Argentine Embassy has said.
A new scramble for Africa?
- Mokoro Newsletter
- 27 May 2010
Amid much talk about the need for "codes of conduct" to help regulate this new phenomenon, I found myself wondering whether Cecil Rhodes would have signed such a code. He probably would, and have then gone on to completely disregard it.
Landcorp may bid against Chinese for Crafar farms
- Dominion Post
- 27 May 2010
NZ government-owned farming company Landcorp may bid for 16 big farms at the centre of controversy over their potential sale to a Chinese-backed investor.
Super Fund shops for Kiwi businesses
- NZ Herald
- 27 May 2010
The NZ Super Fund is "going hard" on the acquisition trail for stakes in prime New Zealand assets like rural land, state-owned enterprises, smaller high-growth companies and iwi businesses.
"Agrogeneration exploitera plus de 100.000 hectares de terre d'ici 2012"
- Capital.fr
- 26 May 2010
La firme française a d'abord regardé l'Amérique latine puis l'Afrique et le pourtour de la mer noire avant de retenir l'Ukraine, notamment pour la terre noire et les milliers d'hectares qui n'étaient pas cultivés.
The world agriculture industry: A study in falling supply and rising demand
- Hardman & Co
- 26 May 2010
We believe that farmland, and agriculture generally, will shortly move beyond the ‘acceptable’ in the eyes of the world’s investment management community and become a core product.
Algerie: on veille au grain
- Oxford Business Group
- 25 May 2010
« Certains de nos agriculteurs du secteur privé ont commencé à investir dans des pays comme l’Egypte et le Soudan. Nous espérons en faire de même en Algérie » dit le ministre de l’agriculture saoudien.
African land interest is opportunity and threat
- Business Report
- 25 May 2010
South Africa, which became a net importer of food two years ago after two decades of net exporting, is developing African agricultural ambitions of its own.