Sweden

Sierra Leone Climbing out of poverty
- Swedfund International
- 28 Aug 2013
Swedfund film focuses on the people living in the Sierra Leone countryside affected by the Addax Bioenergy sugarcane project.
Pension funds flock to ‘real assets’
- Financial Times
- 16 Jun 2013
Pension funds across the globe are ramping up holdings of so-called “real assets” such as property, infrastructure and farmland, as they move to protect their portfolios against inflation.
The anatomy of a Mozambique land deal
- IRIN
- 22 May 2013
A multi-million dollar “ethical” plantation development in northwestern Mozambique - the initiative of a clutch of Scandinavian faith-based organizations - has faced alleged acts of sabotage by the very people it was designed to assist, illustrating the divisions between foreign benefactors and local communities.
Swedish buffer fund AP2 under scrutiny from NGO over Brazilian farmland investments
- Responsible Investor
- 22 Apr 2013
Sweden’s SEK227.3bn (€26.7bn) state buffer fund Andra AP-fonden (AP2) has been accused of a lack of transparency and snapping up cheap agricultural land in Brazil by campaign group Swedwatch. AP2 denies the allegations.
Lack of transparency when Swedish Pension Fund AP2 invests in farmland in Brazil
- Swedwatch
- 16 Apr 2013
A new Swedwatch report shows a lack of transparency and inadequate auditing of ethics and environmental impacts in AP2’s investment in farmland in Brazil. For business reasons, the investment is surrounded by a high level of secrecy, which makes scrutiny from the outside impossible.
Swedish land grab in Tanzania causes protests
- FarmLandS
- 22 Mar 2013
Mats Widgren provides an update on a Swedish company's land grab for sugar cane production in Tanzania.
Swedish Black Earth?
- FarmLandS
- 14 Mar 2013
"I’ve put together a table with what I think are the main Swedish land investments in Russia and Ukraine," writes Brian Kuns. "In doing this, I ran into some of the known difficulties associated with monitoring the phenomenon of large-scale land-acquisition."
Tanzania: Villagers cry over land grabbing
- The Citizen
- 13 Mar 2013
Bagamoyo villagers are up in arms over the government supporting an investor they accuse of grabbing about 6,000 hectares of their land in the district.
Govt can't produce foreign farmland figure
- NZN
- 13 Mar 2013
In New Zealand, an opposition party is demanding hard figures on how much farmland is owned by foreigners, but the government says it can't produce the figures.
Pension fund buys $100m of land in hunt for safety
- Agrimoney
- 11 Mar 2013
The 16,000-hectare farm which Första AP-fonden bought in Australia in December was one of a clutch of purchases of farmland, worth some $100m, by the pension fund.
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.
“No land, no power”
- Swedwatch
- 05 Mar 2013
Executive summary of Swedwatch's report on the Swedfund-supported Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone

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