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Big money warms to farmland
- DTN
- 01 November 2011
Pension funds and other corporate owners have spent only a tiny fraction of the billions of dollars they could invest in farmland, but they are definitely kicking the tires on potential purchases.
The smart money is betting on the Pakistani farm
- Express Tribune
- 24 October 2011
Venture capitalists, merchant bankers and large conglomerates are all piling in.
Farmland draws increased interest from investors
- Wallaces Farmer
- 21 October 2011
There is a lot of focus on the growing global population and what it means for food demand. One result sees investors taking notice of returns on resources that provide food, including farmland.
Foreigners dig in to New South Wales farmland
- The Land
- 19 October 2011
More than 613,000 hectares of Australia's NSW's agricultural land is owned by UK-based investors, compared with 227,300 ha owned by Korean interests and 55,560 ha by US investors.
Farmland seen returning up to 12% by $469 billion fund manager
- Bloomberg
- 06 October 2011
Farmland investments may return 8 percent to 12 percent annually as global food demand increases, said the largest US pensions manager for teachers and academic researchers with $469 billion of assets.
Morgan bet farm in Ukraine before bailout
- Bloomberg
- 05 October 2011
Bloomberg's Alan Katz reports on Morgan Stanley's farming venture on the steppes of Ukraine which it abandoned in July 2009. The failed gamble demonstrates how Wall Street firms, in the last gasp of a debt-fueled bull market, strayed further from their traditional businesses to embrace diverse projects with unfamiliar risks.
Land appeals as safe haven
- Progressive Farmer
- 04 October 2011
In Brazil, government surveys found foreigners owned 10% of the nation's cultivated land. Much of that was funds with international backing in London or New York.
Cargill unit offers to buy 28% of AgriNurture
- Manila Standard
- 04 October 2011
Black River Capital Partners Fund (Food) LP, a fund managed by the private equity arm of US agribusiness and trading giant Cargill, has offered to acquire 28.11 percent of Philippine fruit and vegetable grower AgriNurture Inc. for $30.4 million.
New CDC investment to support African agribusiness
- CDC
- 03 October 2011
CDC, the UK’s development finance institution, today announced a US$20m investment in farming businesses in Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Uganda
Tilling new ground on Africa’s Gold Coast
- Corn&Soybean Digest
- 01 October 2011
With investors from the Middle East and the U.S., Africa Atlantic Farms is pursuing mechanised farming on 10,000 hectares it has leased in Ghana in the Afram Plains region, with plans to expand.
The Endowment and Africa: HMC should disavow investments that disenfranchise the world’s poor
- The Crimson
- 30 September 2011
At the current stage, we do not have adequately available evidence to consider either HMC or Emergent at fault for the purported economic wrongdoings outlined in the Oakland Institute report.
Stand up for small-scale food producers
- Grassroots International
- 29 September 2011
Groups urge people in the US and Canada to take action on land grabbing.