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Farmland investment booming in Africa
- AltAssets
- 08 September 2011
"As investors we always want to be on the correct side of global macro trends, and whatever China needs or is buying lots of, we want to own as investments."
Famine : polémique autour des politiques agricoles
- Jeune Afrique
- 26 August 2011
La polémique portant sur l’aide chinoise à l’Ethiopie tient avant tout de la macro-économie – les investissements étrangers sont-ils facteurs de développement ? – et d’une question de conscience – peut-on importer des produits alimentaires d’un pays en proie à la famine ?
Mozambique: la question de la vente des terres cultivables pose problème
- RFI
- 23 August 2011
La semaine dernière, Folha De San Paulo affirmait que le gouvernement mozambicain avait concédé 6 millions d'hectares à des investisseurs du Brésil. Depuis, Maputo a démenti l'information. Mais la question agite le Mozambique.
Farm Lands of Guinea, Inc. finalise un placement privé d’un million de dollars US avec un investisseur stratégique
- PR Newswire
- 22 August 2011
Farm Lands of Guinea, Inc. qui contrôle plus de 100 000 hectares de terres agricoles ouest-africaines sous-utilisées, a finalisé un placement stratégique d’un million de dollars US de AIM Investments PLC grâce à un placement privé
Farm Lands of Guinea, Inc. closes $1,000,000 private placement with strategic investor
- PR Newswire
- 22 August 2011
"AIMI's investment in Farm Lands of Guinea Inc. gives the company and its shareholders exposure to the exciting growth prospects presented by this large-scale agricultural opportunity in West Africa," said Mark Pajak, Acting Chairman of AIM Investments.
Investissement d’AIM dans Farm Lands of Guinea
- StockmarketWire.com
- 09 August 2011
AIM Investments investit 1 million de dollars US dans Farm Lands of Guinea qui de son côté va investir 500 000 dollars dans AIM.
Ghana to become leading rice producer in West Africa
- GNA
- 03 August 2011
Mr Daniel Amelorku, District Chief Executive of South Tongu District in the Volta Region of Ghana said his district has provided 1,000 hectares of land to Global Agri-Development Company (GADCO) and would be expanded to 4,000 hectares within four years to achieve the target.
Apex launch The Africasia Funds
- Apex Fund Services
- 23 July 2011
The first Africasia Sustainable Farming Fund will be investing in land across the Africasia region and in Sri Lanka to take advantage of the current post war economic boom in the country and the demand and shortfall for basic food crops in the region and globally, reports Apex Fund Services, a UK-based hedge fund
Biofuels land grab in Kenya's Tana Delta fuels talk of war
- The Guardian
- 02 July 2011
Villagers vow to resist as wildlife vanishes and they are driven from their land to make way for water-thirsty crops.
Asia leads the charge in Aussie land grab
- ANA
- 02 July 2011
Asian investors have overtaken Europeans as the biggest buyers of Australian land, a snapshot of foreign acquisitions reveals.
SilverStreet raises $198m from PKA and OPIC
- Private Equity Africa
- 01 July 2011
UK-based SilverStreet Capital has received about $198 million in commitments to its Africa-focused fund from the Danish pension fund Pensionskassernes Administration (PKA) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).
UK and African farmland increasing in value, says TW Hammerson
- PR Web
- 01 July 2011
Land Investment Firm, TW Hammerson sees soaring values for farmland in the UK, with an increasing demand for farmland in Africa.