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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.

Le Congrès américain a pris des mesures afin d’empêcher que l’aide humanitaire apportée en Ethiopie ne soit utilisée pour financer l’expulsion forcée de peuples indigènes dans le sud-ouest du pays.

Let us focus on the real issue that our legislators should be grasping: how do we keep farmers operating and attract farmers to own the land they work, and not become peasants on land rented from institutional investors, domestic or foreign.

Le gouvernement des États‐Unis a pris une position dans le projet de loi pour l’ouverture des crédits 2014.

The 2014 Omnibus Appropriations Bill contains provisions that ensure that US development funds are not used to support forced evictions in Ethiopia.

Selon Paul Obambi, président de la chambre de commerce de Brazzaville, « Les terres fertiles que nous avons en Afrique sont encore disponibles. Il faudrait bien que nous puissions attirer un peu plus les investisseurs américains. »

A new review sought by Assembly Republicans of a law that limits foreign ownership of state land was criticized Thursday by an Assembly Democrat who called it an “end-around” attempt to change it.

On January 22 a comprehensive database on land and resource governance programmes funded by members of the Global Donor Working Group on Land will be presented during the AGA in Paris.

This year could see a surge in interest in farmland from investors with very little experience in this complicated asset class, reports Euromoney

Cargill has doled out $200 million for a stake in UkrLandFarming, Ukraine’s largest agribusiness holding, in a potentially far-reaching deal that sources said would see both groups partner up in future grain exports to China and other growing markets.