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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.

First State Super follows US and Canadian super funds with major investment in Australian almond plantations.

A substantial payout could be in store for private equity firms willing to take on the risk and plough capital into the farming business.

Investors have poured tens of millions of dollars into a war torn landscape in northern Uganda now dotted with tracts of maize, rice, sunflower, sesame and commercial forests.

Hearing in the US will examine how land grabbing has significantly impacted the lives of Filipinos and Cambodians and the involvement of U.S. officials charged with promoting development in these countries.

New TIAA-CREF fund will invest in “high quality farmland assets” across North America, South America, Australia and parts of Europe with a focus on major grain exporting regions.