New Zealand

NZ wide open to massive land grab
- Voxy
- 18 December 2009
New Zealand needs to tighten its rules around overseas investment as China and the Gulf States go on a world-wide shopping spree for prime land, said Green Party Co-Leader Dr Russel Norman.
Agro-Ecological Investment Management to launch $60m maiden fund
- AltAssets
- 07 December 2009
Agro-Ecological Investment Management, a private equity and real estate asset management company based in London, will launch its first fund in the first quarter of 2010, with a target of between $50m and $60m.
Wikileaks: UAE develops food security policy
- Wikileaks
- 24 November 2009
"Al Shariqi said that while the government does not have foreign agricultural investments, some UAE sheikhs personally own land in Pakistan, Egypt, Australia and New Zealand," reports the US mission in Abu Dhabi
Overseas interest in farming assets
- Otago Daily Times
- 24 October 2009
Cash-rich overseas pension funds and investors have been scouting for New Zealand dairy farm investments,
David Stevenson: Farmland looks dirt cheap
- Financial Times
- 24 July 2009
While everyone from the Rothschild’s – via the Agrifirma Brazil fund, run with Jim Slater – through to Nicola Horlick and UBS are snapping up farmland in Brazil, I’m fascinated by another niche: Canada and New Zealand.
Rabobank exec sees recovery, change for farm sector
- Reuters
- 24 June 2009
Despite criticism for Chinese efforts to acquire large-scale farmland in Africa, China is seen continuing to aggressively pursue acquisitions in other countries. says Michael Whitehead, executive director of the food and agribusiness research and advisory unit at Rabobank International.
Time to invest in dairy
- Stuff
- 08 June 2009
The next six to 12 months may be the best time in five years to buy a dairy farm or a share in one, according to investment company MyFarm in New Zealand. The global recession has not changed anything.
Milking greener pastures
- Sunday Star Times
- 07 December 2008
Faced with high land values and falling milk prices at home, a growing number of New Zealand dairy farmers are investing in South America, the United States, eastern Europe and Russia.
Ingleby Company in New Zealand for the long haul
- Country Wide
- 04 January 2008
Since 1999, The Ingleby Company has bought about 17 farms. The company runs just under 20,000ha of land with 130,000 stock units, most of which are sheep and cattle.