Coast Region now advised to accept investors in agriculture

• The Guardian
• 09 September 2011

Tanzania's Coast Region residents have been advised to accept and work with investors in agriculture.

Feronia's ambitions in Africa reach beyond palm oil plantations

• Proactive Investors
• 09 September 2011

Feronia Inc. got into the palm oil business in September 2009 through the purchase of a 100,000 hectare plantation in the Democratic Republic of Congo from Unilever.

China tills vigorously at African agro opportunities

• Business Standard
• 09 September 2011

Speaking at the annual African Cup of Investment Management, Alex Pestana said China had invested in arable land in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique.

‘Landgrab' overseas

• Frontline
• 09 September 2011

AN extraordinary new process has been at work in the past few years: the aggressive entry of Indian corporations into the markets for agricultural land in Africa, writes Jayati Gosh

FAO land-deal guidelines: will they have teeth?

• AlertNet
• 08 September 2011

As large-scale land purchases for food production become commonplace, the FAO is finalising a set of guidelines to help improve land-tenure governance and encourage transparency in deals.

Farmland investment booming in Africa

• AltAssets
• 08 September 2011

"As investors we always want to be on the correct side of global macro trends, and whatever China needs or is buying lots of, we want to own as investments."

US company looking to farm rice in Nigeria and Tanzania left trail of devastation in Kenya

• GRAIN
• 07 September 2011

The people living on the lands now being targeted by US-owned Dominion Farms can learn a lot from the film Good Fortune, which provides a behind-the-scenes account of the struggle of a local community in Kenya to defend their lands from this company.

Simmering tension over forest give-away

• IRIN
• 07 September 2011

A plan to replace a large swathe of protected rainforest in Uganda with sugarcane could lead to further civil unrest in a year when nine people have been killed during strikes and protests against the rising cost of living.

AEW Capital launches unit to acquire farmland

• Boston Business Journal
• 07 September 2011

AEW Capital Management of Boston is launching a new investment division to acquire farmland in the United States and Canada.

Making investment work for Africa: A Parliamentarian response to “land grabs”

• PAP
• 07 September 2011

Report from the seminar on foreign investment in agricultural land and water, organized by the Pan African Parliament

Foreign bid for slice of sugar

• Daily Mercury
• 07 September 2011

While foreign investment is nothing new in the Australian sugar industry, the rate at which foreign companies have been pouring money into the industry has caused some concern among canegrowers.

Pension funds launch Principles for Responsible Investment in Farmland

• UNPRI
• 06 September 2011

A group of institutional investors representing US$1.3 trillion in assets have today launched the Principles for Responsible Investment in Farmland (the “Farmland Principles”).