US

Foreign ownership ban retained
- DTN/TPF
- 20 May 2013
Wisconsin state legislators have blocked an effort by Gov. Scott Walker to lift the state's long-time limits on foreign ownership of farmland.
Céréales : AgroGeneration absorbé par un rival ukrainien
- Les Echos
- 06 May 2013
Le groupe céréalier AgroGénération, créé en 2007 par l'homme d'affaires Charles Beigbeder, va être absorbé par Harmélia, un rival ukrainien, détenu à 100 % par le fonds d'investissement américain SigmaBleyzer.
Cameroun: "corruption" lors de l'acquisition de terres pour un projet américain (rapport)
- AFP
- 30 April 2013
Un rapport issu du ministère des forêts camerounais et consulté par l'AFP mardi reproche à la société américaine Heraklès Farms des méthodes "d'intimidation et de corruption" pour acquérir des terres pour la culture du palmier à huile dans le sud-ouest du Cameroun
Eastern Europe beckons farmland investors
- Farmers Weekly
- 21 April 2013
Farmland prices are firming across much of Central and Eastern Europe, as interest from institutional investors -- mainly pension funds -- begins to translate into transactions on the ground.
Farmers oppose land ownership rule changes
- Leader-Telegram
- 04 April 2013
A group representing Wisconsin farmers said its lobbying agenda this spring will include opposition to Gov. Scott Walker's plan to eliminate limits on foreign land ownership.
CRE groups back proposal to grant FIRPTA exemptions to foreign pension investors
- Costar Group
- 03 April 2013
The Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act was first passed in 1980 by Congress to limit foreign control over US farmland. Obama now wants things changed.
«Comment Macky et Abdoul Mbaye nous ont permis de relancer le projet»
- GFM
- 29 Mar 2013
Le président du Conseil d’administration, Gora Seck, de la société Senhuile/Senéthanol revient sur les grandes lignes et les retombées économiques du projet qui suscite beaucoup de réactions de la part de certaines populations locales.
As crop prices surge, investment firms and farmers vie for land
- New York Times
- 18 Mar 2013
In November, an investment unit of the big Swiss bank UBS bought 9,800 acres of Wisconsin farmland for $68 million
Realtors asked for budget provision expanding foreign ownership of state land
- Capital Times
- 10 Mar 2013
Farm advocates fear a loosening of the acreage that can be sold to foreign investors will drive up Wisconsin farmland prices.
Pension funds join forces to invest in farmland
- Reuters
- 07 Mar 2013
Major asset managers, cowed by the cost, the risk and the controversy involved in investing in farmland, are joining forces to increase investment in the historically under-capitalised sector.
Budget provision to lift ban on foreign ownership of land criticized
- Wisconsin State Journal
- 28 February 2013
US Governor Scott Walker's budget proposes lifting a longtime prohibition on foreign ownership of large tracts of land in Wisconsin — a change that some legislators believe will allow other countries to gain too much control over some of the world's best farmland.
Patient for profits
- World Magazine
- 22 February 2013
US-based Aslan Global Management, a leader in the "patient capital" movement, manages more than 12,000 hectares of farmland in Ukraine and Mozambique on long-term lease and just entered into a 99-year lease for 45,000 hectares in Tanzania.