US

Warren Adams: Searching for profits and saving Patagonia
- Fortune
- 10 Mar 2011
The entrepreneur has a plan for land preservation that actually makes money. Now he just has to prove it.
Farm Lands of Guinea completes reverse merger and investment valuing the company at USD$45 million
- 04 Mar 2011
Farm Lands of Guinea Limited controls nearly a quarter of a million acres of underutilized West African agricultural holdings under an agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture of Guinea.
Farm Lands of Guinea réalise une fusion inverse et un investissement évaluant l'entreprise à 45 millions de dollars US
- PR Newswire
- 04 Mar 2011
Farm Lands of Guinea Limited qui, à travers sa filiale Land & Resources (Guinea) SA dont elle détient 90 %, contrôle plus de 100 000 hectares de terres agricoles sous-utilisées en Afrique de l'Ouest, a annoncé aujourd'hui avoir réalisé une fusion inverse et un investissement avec Kryptic Entertainment Inc.
Mémorandum Parena sur la cession des terres agricoles de l’Office du Niger aux investisseurs privés nationaux et étrangers
- Le Républicain
- 10 February 2011
Au Mali, le Parti pour la Renaissance Nationale a rendu public un mémorandum relatif à la politique gouvernementale de cession des terres agricoles dans la zone Office du Niger.
Visionary alternatives to boost food security
- The National
- 08 February 2011
Food security is back on the agenda with a bang, but while countries with money but little land want to invest elsewhere, few efforts are as emotive as a global "land grab".
Soros's Adecoagro plans public offering in US, may sell shares to Qatar
- Bloomberg
- 14 January 2011
Adecoagro SA, a farmland venture in South America that’s backed by billionaire George Soros, plans to raise as much as $429 million in an initial public offering in the US as food prices surge.
Food reserve planned, but imports leave UAE vulnerable
- The National
- 12 January 2011
Several national companies and even the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the capital's sovereign fund, are planning investments in agriculture in countries as diverse as Vietnam, Cambodia, Pakistan, Australia, Romania and the United States.
Des ONG dénoncent des expropriations foncières dans le sud de la Mauritanie
- PANA
- 27 December 2010
Les ONG n'ont pas révélé l'identité des multinationales de l'agro-busness bénéficiaires des attributions foncières en question; toutefois certaines sources parlent de sociétés saoudiennes, soudanaises et même américaines,
TPP negotiations could open NZ up to US land grab
- Green Party
- 06 December 2010
New Zealand’s overseas investment regime will be on the US’ hit list during the Trans Pacific Partnership talks this week.
Investors try new tactic with African agriculture
- Reuters
- 01 December 2010
Profit-hungry investors hope to avoid the stigma and opposition associated with land grabbing by partnering with local business development groups.
Jenaan to plant $500m venture
- The National
- 25 November 2010
Abu Dhabi's Jenaan Investment owns and leases properties in Egypt and Sudan, as well as leasing land in Tanzania, Ethiopia and the US.
From corn to nuts, Optima plans listed farmland REIT
- Reuters
- 09 November 2010
Optima Fund Management is picking up new U.S. farm properties at a brisk pace as it prepares to take public its farmland real estate investment trust.