Panel: Can Funds and Financial Institutions promote good land-based investment practice?

The focus of the conference was on the politics of global land grabbing and agrarian change. The papers and panels address some of the most urgent and strategic questions around global land grab.

HighQuest Partners LLC is pleased to announce that it will expand its sucessful Global AgInvesting conference series, the leading conference worldwide focused on the agriculture asset class. Global AgInvesting Europe 2010 will be held on November 9-10, 2010 at the Intercontinental Geneva Hotel in Geneva, Switzerland.

Ce juteux secteur attire évidemment les convoitises et les investisseurs n’hésitent pas à faire campagne ! Comme ces 9 et 10 novembre prochain à l’Hôtel Intercontinental à Genève. Global AGInvesting Europe 2010 (www.globalaginvesting.com) y organise une conférence pour promouvoir les stratégies en investissements agricoles.

Official documents from the 36th session of the FAO Committee on World Food Security (Rome 11-16 October 2010) concerning their discussion of landgrabbing

“Large Scale Farming in Africa” is an international conference, which meets on 20-21 Apr 2010 in Cairo to explore upcoming investment opportunities in Africa’s agriculture sector, and discuss risk management and financing solutions.

Land Day will zero in on land and associated agro-industry related global challenges with a long-term rural development perspective.

The World Bank together with International Finance Corporation organized the first EAP Regional Agribusiness Trade and Investment Conference "Agroenterprise without Borders", in Singapore on July 30-31, 2009.

Soyatech, LLC, in partnership with the Investment Management Institute (IMI) and HighQuest Partners, has announced the list of speakers for the upcoming Global AgInvesting 2009 Conference. Aimed at public and private market investors, this conference will explore opportunities for investments in agricultural lands, commodities and infrastructure. Global AgInvesting 2009 will take place June 22-23 at the Marriott Eastside Hotel in New York City.

The Global Land Grab: A Human Rights Approach seminar will analyze the global land grab through a human rights lens, assessing the trade and investment agreements that are enabling the trend, as well as its likely effects on small farmers, indigenous peoples and food sovereignty.