• Sprott and Ceres Partners to launch institutional farmland fund
    • Marketwire
    • 09 October 2017

    Companies launch the Ceres - Sprott Institutional Farmland Fund to provide institutional investors the opportunity to participate in the North American farmland investment market.

  • Virginia Retirement System awards $150m farmland separate account
    • IPE
    • 29 September 2017

    It is the first time the US pension fund has awarded a separate account for the asset class, although in February it announced it was investing $125m in International Farming Corporation’s US Farming Realty Trust III.

  • Nuveen reaps rewards of steady agricultural focus
    • The Australian
    • 06 September 2017

    The purchase of more Australian farms, agribusinesses and food processing plants is high on the agenda of one of the world’s biggest investment managers, the Chicago-based Nuveen.

  • China's COFCO forms U.S. grain supply partnership with Growmark
    • Reuters
    • 19 August 2017

    China's state-owned COFCO International Ltd (CIL) and U.S. farm cooperative Growmark Inc will partner in a deal that gives China more direct access to the food it imports.

  • Can big money fix a broken food system?
    • Civil Eats
    • 15 August 2017

    Financial services firms are increasingly directing investor dollars into regenerative agriculture and other systemic food projects in the US, although not without risks

  • L'achat de terres agricoles par les étrangers ? Les Etats-Unis connaissent aussi !
    • Commodafrica
    • 10 August 2017

    De 2004 à 2014, le volume de terres agricoles aux Etats-Unis détenues par des étrangers aurait doublé, les acheteurs étant essentiellement des canadiens, des néerlandais et des allemands

  • Goodbye, small farmer? investors could soon own most of american farmland
    • Yes Magazine
    • 08 August 2017

    Today, 30 percent of American farmland is owned by non-operators who lease it out to farmers. Here’s why that’s a problem.

  • ICSID roundup: Hungary
    • Law360
    • 04 August 2017

    British agricultural company Magyar Farming Co. Ltd., along with two Hungarian companies called Kintyre KFT and Inicia ZRT, hit Hungary with an ICSID claim on Aug. 1.

  • Foreign investors are snapping up US farms
    • Mother Jones
    • 04 August 2017

    American farmland is becoming popular with overseas investors—and that’s making people nervous. Italian buyers purchased 102,000 acres, New Zealand bought around 18,000, and Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates went in on more than 15,000 acres.

  • The Rohatyn Group to acquire GMO Renewable Resources
    • Business Wire
    • 04 August 2017

    GMORR manages approximately $2.1 billion in rural real estate assets across eight countries and 600,000 hectares.

  • Harvest returns to launch agriculture investment platform
    • PE Hub Network
    • 03 August 2017

    Texas-based Harvest Returns, a financial tech company, is planning on debuting its agriculture investment platform this month. With this platform, agriculture producers and landowners will be able to raise funding and also maintain control over their business.

  • Stained Trade
    • Global Witness
    • 01 August 2017

    Papua New Guinea (PNG) is home to the largest remaining tropical rainforest in the Asia-Pacific region, and one of the biggest land grabs in modern history. Between 2014 and 2016, Global Witness traced a supply chain spanning some 9,000 miles from the PNG’s forests to retail shelves in the U.S.

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