Investment AB Kinnevik today announced that it has sold its Polish agricultural business Rolnyvik, which holds 6,700 hectares of land in Poland, for a total consideration of approximately SEK 400m in cash.
- Kinnevik
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12 November 2015
Police arrest 11 farmers from Pyrzyce where 60% of farmland has already been sold off to foreign buyers. The farmers are accused of blocking tenders connected with the foreign sale of farming estates.
New TIAA-CREF fund will invest in “high quality farmland assets” across North America, South America, Australia and parts of Europe with a focus on major grain exporting regions.
- Global Ag Investing
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04 August 2015
US private equity firm Paine & Partners expanded its farm and agribusiness holdings on Wednesday with the acquisition of a leading European Union agricultural producer, Spearhead International Ltd, for an undisclosed amount.
El acaparamiento de tierras se está produciendo también en la UE, con una implantación que va en aumento, especialmente en los países del este de la UE, como son Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungría y Polonia.
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"The core of the protest is about preventing the sale of Polish agricultural land that might happen from 2016 if the current law continues. This will expose Polish land to be bought by foreign buyers and will threaten small farmers."
- Fresh Fruit Portal
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12 February 2015
Thousands of Polish family farmers from the Solidarity trade union protest new law that will allow land grabs by Western companies
- Landworkers Alliance
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09 February 2015
The three parties expressed their intention to strengthen the co-operation in the field of reshaping and draining agricultural land belonging to Rabo Farm in the Zulawy delta in the North of Poland, close to Gdansk.
On 29th May, farmers in the Polish Region of West Pomerania organised a protest against land grabbing.
A consortium of Saudi groups - comprising dairy giant Almarai, grain importer Al Rajhi and Salic, the agriculture arm of the country's sovereign wealth fund - agreed to pay US $92mn to acquire Continental Farmers Group located in northern Poland and western Ukraine
Nouvel épisode à rebondissement pour Charles Beigbeder. L'homme d'affaires a annoncé, vendredi 3 mai, qu'il associait ses fermes en Ukraine à celles de son concurrent Harmelia, contrôlé par un fonds américain, le texan SigmaBleyzer.
