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D'un coût initial d'investissement de $100 millions, cette société dénommée "El Firma" sera basée dans l'ouest algérien, où les deux partenaires vont implanter une ferme pilote intégrée s'étendant sur près de 6.000 ha.

The three activists, who face terrorism charges for attempting to attend a workshop on food security, face a court hearing in Addis Ababa on October 22.

United States investors were the largest investors in our dairy land during 2013-2014, analysis by KPMG has revealed.

One of America’s largest farm management and real estate brokerages has expanded into the Canadian Prairies — starting with Alberta.

A new controversy has erupted at the multi-million American investor farm at the Yala swamp in Kadenge, Siaya county over establishment of a sugar mill and cultivation of cane in the area.

Juaboso Agro Processing Company, a joint Ghanaian/American business, has secured 6,000 hectares of land for the cultivation of plantain and the building of a factory to export chips to the United States.

George Soros participates in $500 million capitalisation of new firm, Tunbridge Partners, that will invest in "real assets" in timber and agriculture.

The $70 billion Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund has approved a US$100 million investment in Brookfield Brazil Agriculture II, a $700m vehicle being raised by Canada's largest asset manager.

Farmland Partners, the New York Stock Exchange-listed real estate investment trust (REIT), says it will eventually branch out from the US.

Investors have turned to farmland as part of a sweeping push into physical assets — everything from lumber, hotels and apartments to parking meters, bridges and highways.

In the past four years, farmland agent Minor Taylor has sold more than 50,000 acres of Texas farmland to Chinese buyers.

Private equity and venture capital firms are going down to the farm, moving into the agribusiness and agriculture technology sectors in a big way.