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23 Feb 2012Business Digest

Zimbabwe: Afrifresh to acquire Ariston Holdings stake

Afrifresh Group, a South African agriculture group, is set to acquire a controlling stake in Ariston Holdings, as Emvest pulls out.

09 Feb 2012AltAssets

African agriculture investor EmVest inks funding from Truestone

Sub-Saharan African agriculture investor EmVest Asset Management has received its first allocation from London-based Truestone Impact Investment Management, which focuses on delivering market rate returns from social and environmental investments.

13 Oct 2011Reuters

Hedge fund couple split businesses after separation

Husband and wife team founded Emergent Asset Management, which has led controversial farmland acquisitions in southern Africa.

06 Oct 2011PANA

British, French firms linked to African land grabs

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

30 Sep 2011The Crimson

The Endowment and Africa: HMC should disavow investments that disenfranchise the world’s poor

At the current stage, we do not have adequately available evidence to consider either HMC or Emergent at fault for the purported economic wrongdoings outlined in the Oakland Institute report.

23 Jun 2011Courrier International

Les universités américaines s’offrent des terres

Après les Etats et les entreprises étrangères, les grandes facultés d’outre-Atlantique investissent massivement sur le continent noir. Et les paysans locaux n’en bénéficient guère.

13 Jun 2011CBC

Hedge funds & African farms

The mad scramble for Africa. Critics say the financial firms that helped cause the global recession by inflating the real estate bubble -- are back. And this time they're being accused of pulling the same tricks with the world's food supply.

12 Jun 2011CNN

Claims of African 'land grab' spark controversy

A new report published this week claims farmers in Africa are being driven off their traditional lands to make way for vast new industrial farming projects backed by European hedge funds seeking profits and foreign countries looking for cheap food.

09 Jun 2011Guardian

US universities in Africa 'land grab'

Institutions including Harvard and Vanderbilt reportedly use hedge funds to buy land in deals that may force farmers out.

08 Jun 2011BBC News Africa

Hedge funds 'grabbing land' in Africa

Hedge funds are behind "land grabs" in Africa to boost their profits in the food and biofuel sectors, a US think-tank says

01 May 2011Guardian

South Africa's white farmers are moving further north

Other countries believe their agricultural expertise can kickstart an agrarian revolution across the African continent

18 Apr 2011World Bank

World Bank conference on Land and Poverty 2011

Video of the Panel: Can Funds and Financial Institutions promote good land-based investment practice? Featuring represetatives of Rabobank, Emergent Asset Management, TIAA-CREF and Galtere Ltd).