Romania

Romania: A fertile land of opportunity
- PressEurop
- 30 April 2012
Attracted by the low cost of agricultural land, Farmers from elsewhere in the EU are taking the plunge to set up in Romania.
Roumanie : Des terres fertiles en opportunités
- PressEurop
- 30 April 2012
Attirés par le bas prix des terrains agricoles, de nombreux Européens n’hésitent plus à monter une exploitation en Roumanie. Ils contribuent ainsi à réinventer la culture locale, en particulier par le bio.
Field of dreams: agricultural sector cultivates hopes
- The Diplomat
- 02 April 2012
Romanian government considers setting up a land bank with priority in the acquisition of agricultural land to restrict the flow of foreign investments.
Romania and Bulgaria will begin a joint initiative to delay the liberalization of their agricultural land markets
- bne
- 29 Mar 2012
The countries say that they now believe their farmers are not yet ready to compete on a free land market with foreign investors
Du bio suisse cultivé… en Roumanie
- swissinfo
- 22 February 2012
De plus en plus d’agriculteurs suisses s’installent en Roumanie, à la frontière est de l’Europe. Attirés par des prix encore dérisoires, ils achètent des domaines de plusieurs centaines d'hectares et exportent en Suisse et en Allemagne.
Case studies on private investment in farmland and agricultural infrastructure
- High Quest Partners
- 31 January 2012
The six case studies compiled in this report illustrate the wide range of approaches and focus that private funds are adopting (legal structure, geography, agricultural production and operating strategies) to invest in farmland in different parts of the world.
A l'Est, main basse sur les terres
- France 5
- 10 January 2012
En suivant le parcours d'un agriculteur alsacien qui veut tenter sa chance dans les terres noires de Roumanie et des fonds d'investissement qui opèrent en Ukraine, l'enquête permet une réflexion sur la fin annoncée du monde paysan tel qu'il existe aujourd'hui, en Europe de l'Est mais aussi en France.
Foreigners own 7 percent of Romania's farmland shows GRAIN data
- Business Review
- 16 December 2011
Alongside countries like Liberia, Laos, Congo and Sierra Leone, Romania is one of the countries where foreign companies own large areas of farmland, according to a report put together by GRAIN.
The agricultural land owned by foreigners in Romania, 700,000-plus ha
- RNA
- 22 November 2011
Foreigners currently have more than 700,000 ha of agricultural land in Romania, representing 8.5 percent of the arable land of the country, says Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Structural change in commodity markets: private financial sector investment in agriculture
- OECD
- 17 October 2011
Report by HighQuest Partners for the OECD, October 2011, features 6 case studies of land grabbers: Agrica, CalyxAgro, Cazanae, Jantzen, NFD Agro and Quifel
Farmland seen returning up to 12% by $469 billion fund manager
- Bloomberg
- 06 October 2011
Farmland investments may return 8 percent to 12 percent annually as global food demand increases, said the largest US pensions manager for teachers and academic researchers with $469 billion of assets.
Romanian farmland set to cultivate future growth
- Business Review
- 12 September 2011
"We are in negotiations with several foreign investment funds that are interested in buying thousands of hectares of Romanian farmland,” says analyst with DTZ Echinox.