New TIAA-CREF fund will invest in “high quality farmland assets” across North America, South America, Australia and parts of Europe with a focus on major grain exporting regions.
US private equity firm Paine & Partners expanded its farm and agribusiness holdings on Wednesday with the acquisition of a leading European Union agricultural producer, Spearhead International Ltd, for an undisclosed amount.
El acaparamiento de tierras se está produciendo también en la UE, con una implantación que va en aumento, especialmente en los países del este de la UE, como son Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungría y Polonia.
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"The core of the protest is about preventing the sale of Polish agricultural land that might happen from 2016 if the current law continues. This will expose Polish land to be bought by foreign buyers and will threaten small farmers."
Thousands of Polish family farmers from the Solidarity trade union protest new law that will allow land grabs by Western companies
The three parties expressed their intention to strengthen the co-operation in the field of reshaping and draining agricultural land belonging to Rabo Farm in the Zulawy delta in the North of Poland, close to Gdansk.
On 29th May, farmers in the Polish Region of West Pomerania organised a protest against land grabbing.
A consortium of Saudi groups - comprising dairy giant Almarai, grain importer Al Rajhi and Salic, the agriculture arm of the country's sovereign wealth fund - agreed to pay US $92mn to acquire Continental Farmers Group located in northern Poland and western Ukraine
Nouvel épisode à rebondissement pour Charles Beigbeder. L'homme d'affaires a annoncé, vendredi 3 mai, qu'il associait ses fermes en Ukraine à celles de son concurrent Harmelia, contrôlé par un fonds américain, le texan SigmaBleyzer.
Kinnevik, the investment group which is the biggest investor in Black Earth Farming, revealed that it is to sell its Polish farm to cash in on gains in land prices, and bankroll "other opportunities in emerging markets further east".
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.
