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The gritty side of farmland investing
- Wall Street Journal
- 03 Mar 2014
Worldwide, farmland is a hot investment area, but it’s also controversial, opaque, illiquid and sometimes relies on local operation that presents a risk of fraud.
Scramble for Africa threatens to leave continent starving
- Africa Review
- 01 Mar 2014
In five short years, rich countries have acquired about 80 million hectares of land in Africa and other developing countries in what is now a worrying trend.
Ukraine unrest may boost farming, says Trigon Agri
- Agrimoney
- 28 February 2014
Danish-based Trigon Agri downplayed the risk to agriculture from Ukraine's crisis, saying it would probably herald a "better business environment".
Colombia: The deadly fight for land
- Al Jazeera
- 27 February 2014
Al Jazeera's Fault Lines investigates the threats facing Colombian farmers struggling to return to their land.
Evicted families in Guatemala still face an uncertain future
- Trócaire
- 27 February 2014
Update on the Rio Frio community who were forcibly evicted off their land in the Polochic Valley to make way for a sugarcane plantation.
The global land grab: Beyond the hype
- Zed Books
- 27 February 2014
"A comprehensive and much-needed intervention on one of the most hotly contested but little-understood issues facing countries of the South today."
Tanzania: Partners keen to empower millions of farmers
- Tanzania Daily News
- 27 February 2014
Growers associations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen farmers' participation in the design and implementation of the Southern Agriculture Growth Corridor of Tanzania.
Senegalese farmers and herders demand shady transnational conglomerate Senhuile SA get off their land
- Ndiaël Collective et al
- 27 February 2014
Farmers and herders from Senegal demand the scrapping of a land deal that threatens the lives of 9,000 people. Please join their action now!
Asia's great land grab
- RFA
- 26 February 2014
Rising tension over land seizures is emerging as a critical issue in Asia. An RFA special report examines the changing dynamic of Asia’s Great Land Grab.
Ivory Coast eyes rice self-sufficiency with foreign firms' help
- Reuters
- 25 February 2014
The country is pinning its hopes on foreign companies, like trading giant Louis Dreyfus Commodities, with which it has signed agreements under which the firms will oversee rice output and marketing in 10 production zones.
Kings of concessions
- Phnom Penh Post
- 25 February 2014
Vietnam and China lead the pack of foreign companies granted economic land concessions in Cambodia for agro-industrial development by a wide margin.
Washington State Investment Board commits $1.2 billion to 4 alts funds
- PI
- 24 February 2014
A $50 million commitment was made to ACM Permanent Crops, a fund managed by Agriculture Capital Management that seeks “superior value creation from vertically integrated, sustainable farming.”