Funds focus on farming fortunes
- Financial News
- 06 February 2012
Farming is a sector that Insight Investment, a UK asset manager best known for its expertise in investing in corporate bonds and government debt, has begun to target.
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UK land price surge drives out funds, foreigners
- Agrimoney
- 30 January 2012
The extent of the surge in UK farmland prices has driven foreign buyers and pension funds to the sidelines, leaving farmers to pay prices more than double those three years ago, property consultancy Savills said.
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Miro Forestry lease agreement with the Yoni Chiefdom, Sierra Leone
- Miro Forestry
- 29 December 2011
Fifty year lease agreement for 20,980 ha signed between Miro Forestry (SL) Limited and representatives of the Yoni Chiefdom, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone in December 2011.
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Alpcot Agro to acquire Landkom International
- World-Grain.com
- 20 December 2011
With the merger, Alpcot Agro now controls well over 250,000 hectares of farmland in Russia and the Ukraine.
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Reap what you sow: Why there's money in farmland
- IFA Online
- 15 December 2011
Tony Hales, managing director of Stadia Trustees, puts forward the case for including farmland in clients’ self-invested personal pensions (UK)
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Tanzania tries to get to grips with land grabs
- Irish Times
- 09 December 2011
“Zuia uporaji wa ardhi,” reads the Swahili headline of a poster on the wall of the community building in Mhaga, a densely populated village in Kisarawe, a district 100km southwest of Dar es Salaam. It means “prevent land grabbing”
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British combing for cotton
- The Land
- 05 December 2011
UK-based investors are planning a $400 million rural land fund to buy cotton and wheat properties in eastern Australia.
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Agriculture investment: Solid ground for unstable times
- CNBC
- 08 November 2011
As the global financial downturn pushes investors into finding alternative business ventures, land investment has become an attractive proposition.
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Prince Charles on land grabbing
- Prince of Wales
- 05 November 2011
"I wonder if greater returns could come for Africa if attention were paid to backing the continent’s millions of smallholders? And yet, as I speak, many are being driven off their land and swelling the ranks of the urban dispossessed."
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Foreigners dig in to New South Wales farmland
- The Land
- 19 October 2011
More than 613,000 hectares of Australia's NSW's agricultural land is owned by UK-based investors, compared with 227,300 ha owned by Korean interests and 55,560 ha by US investors.
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British, French firms linked to African land grabs
- PANA
- 06 October 2011
The French Development Agency and the UK-based Emergent Asset Management have been named as the leading investors in massive land deals involving African leaders
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World Agriculture Investment Overview: Expert Insights
- FC Business Intelligence
- 05 October 2011
Synthesis report from the World Agriculture Investment Conference, London, UK, 4-5 October.
