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One industry leader estimates that $10 billion in institutional capital is looking for access to US farmland, but that number could easily rise as investors seek to ride out uncertain financial times by placing their money in the perceived safety of agriculture.

The US public and private sectors are among the leading drivers of a global drive to snap up usable – and often in-use – agricultural land, in what critics say remains a steadily increasing epidemic of “land-grabbing.”

L’indien Shri Vallabh Pittie et les américains VF et Phillips Van Heusen viennent de boucler une tournée en Ethiopie où le président a réaffirmé son engagement à mettre à disposition 3m d’ha pour la culture du coton

US investment fund Anholt Investment bought the Agraria Nord and Arland farms in Botosani county, Romania.

La extranjerización de los Esteros del Iberá y su impacto en el medio ambiente y la vida de sus pobladores es un tema recurrente.

US government reviews efforts to implement voluntary guidelines and go further in legitimising or building consensus around largescale farmland deals

Wealthy investors can diversify beyond stocks and bonds by owning cornfields. John Taylor of U.S. Trust says farmland produces capital gains as well as income.

Corporations are starting to buy up US farmland, especially in areas dominated by industrial-scale agriculture, like Iowa and California's Central Valley

Saudi dairy company Almarai completed the purchase of 9,834 acres of farmland in Arizona, US, as part of its efforts to secure a supply of alfalfa hay from outside the Kingdom to support its dairy business.

A $50 million commitment was made to ACM Permanent Crops, a fund managed by Agriculture Capital Management that seeks “superior value creation from vertically integrated, sustainable farming.”

The wolves of Wall Street are eyeing millions of acres of US farmland that will soon come up for sale, according to a new study from the Oakland Institute

“Farmland has now become the latest scarce ‘hot’ commodity for all sorts of speculators who have absolutely no interest in agriculture,” says John Peck of Wisconsin-based Family Farm Defenders.