• Commitments to AP2 agriculture venture boosts assets to $2bn
    • IPE
    • 15 May 2012

    Sweden's SEK216bn (€24bn) buffer fund AP2 and TIAA-CREF have increased commitments to an agricultural property company launched last year to $2bn (€1.6bn), attracting interest from several Canadian investors.

  • Swedish aid investment resulted in land-grabbing
    • Sveriges Radio
    • 02 May 2012

    Swedfund, the Swedish development investment company, has invested tens of millions in a company that will produce ethanol in Sierra Leone, but the local people affected by water shortages and hunger when the company took over their land. Now the inhabitants urge Sweden for help.

  • Vill se öppenhet från Swedfund om Sierra Leone
    • Sveriges Radio
    • 02 May 2012

    Biståndsminister Gunilla Carlsson vill att Swedfund öppet delar med sig av resultaten, när organisationen själv granskar situationen i Sierra Leone. Efter Ekots rapportering, om att biståndsorganisationens investeringar i landet orsakar vattenbrist och hunger för fattiga, ska Swedfund besöka landet och se över de investeringar som gjorts i ett etanolprojekt.

  • Mozambique: World Bank to discuss land policy in the country
    • AIM
    • 19 April 2012

    A policy paper will next week be presented to the annual World Bank conference on land and poverty in Washington DC in the United States, which focuses on the confrontation between peasant producers and investors in the Mozambican province of Zambezia.

  • Trigon eyes top spot in European dairy production
    • Agrimoney
    • 28 February 2012

    Trigon Agri unveiled plans to expand in Russia through the acquisition of a "large scale" farm operator - and to become Europe's top dairy producer - as it unveiled its first annual profit.

  • Alpcot Agro to acquire Landkom International
    • World-Grain.com
    • 20 December 2011

    With the merger, Alpcot Agro now controls well over 250,000 hectares of farmland in Russia and the Ukraine.

  • Pensions money invested in farmland abroad
    • Radio Sweden
    • 07 December 2011

    Swedish pensions money is threatening the livelihoods of small farming communities in Brazil and risk speeding up the devastation of the rainforest.

  • Svenska pensionspengar i kritiserade Landgrabbing-projekt
    • P1 Morgan
    • 06 December 2011

    Hur används svenska pensionspengar i utvecklingsländer och vilken hänsyn tas egentligen till miljön? Reportage av Sven Börjesson.

  • Land grabbing in Africa: global resource scarcity and competition for survival
    • SIANI
    • 18 October 2011

    Workshop at Uppsala University, Sweden, on 21 October 2011

  • Food finance: Founding farmers
    • Euromoney
    • 06 October 2011

    Asset owners and managers are signing up to a series of principles on how they invest in agricultural land. Will this mollify critics of the land grab? Nick Lord reports.

  • Sun Biofuels jatropha project in Kisarawe suspended
    • Tanzania Daily News
    • 03 October 2011

    The EU lured many multinational energy companies such as SBF to invest in renewable energies in developing countries such Tanzania where almost all projects are on the verge of collapse or shut down.

  • Swedes want Aussie farms
    • Stock & Land
    • 14 June 2011

    The Swedish National Pension Fund is teaming up with US institutional investor TIAA-CREF to buy farmland in Australia.

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