PepsiCo looking to farm Chinese market

• China Daily
• 01 July 2011

PepsiCo Inc, the world's second-largest food and beverage company, will continue its investment in China's agricultural sector.

UkrFarm in Ukraine gets $40 million credit line from EBRD bank

• Bloomberg
• 01 July 2011

The investment is expected to boost Cyprus-based UkrFarm’s arable land holdings in the Ukraine to 300,000 hectares by 2013 from 250,000 hectares.

SilverStreet raises $198m from PKA and OPIC

• Private Equity Africa
• 01 July 2011

UK-based SilverStreet Capital has received about $198 million in commitments to its Africa-focused fund from the Danish pension fund Pensionskassernes Administration (PKA) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).

The rush for land and its potential environmental consequence

• UNEP
• 01 July 2011

Rising food prices, the need for irrigation, and a hunger for biofuels have led to a recent rise in land acquisitions in the Global South, with the potential for large-scale forest and pasture conversion, biodiversity losses and increased competition for water, writes UNEP

UK and African farmland increasing in value, says TW Hammerson

• PR Web
• 01 July 2011

Land Investment Firm, TW Hammerson sees soaring values for farmland in the UK, with an increasing demand for farmland in Africa.

Fresh fears over farmland foreign investment

• ABC
• 30 June 2011

Politicians throughout the Parliament united this week to raise concerns about the level of foreign investment throughout Australia.

Sierra Leone opposition urges scrapping of land deals

• AFP
• 29 June 2011

A leading Sierra Leone opposition party has called on the government to cancel major land deals signed with international investors, saying they were taking away the livelihood of peasant farmers.

$53B food basket

• Zawya
• 29 June 2011

The GCC's food import bill stood at $25.8-billion in 2010, and will more than double to reach $53.1-billion in 2020, according to an Alpen Capital report.

Who’s who in $4.4 trillion foreign farmland spending spree

• Crikey
• 29 June 2011

As controversy continues to bubble in Australia over the latest big local farmland buy-up and what it means for food production, it’s worth looking to see where these foreign raiders are coming from, who’s backing them and how other countries are tightening their regulations to stop them.

Chinese miner's land buyout passed national interest test, says Bill Shorten

• The Australian
• 29 June 2011

The buy-up of prime agricultural land by Shenhua has sparked a furious political debate in Australia

Pension funds: key players in the global farmland grab

• GRAIN
• 29 June 2011

Pension funds may be one of the few classes of land grabbers that people can pull the plug on, by sheer virtue of the fact that it is their money.

Sierra Leone Environment Protection Agency investigates Addax environmental activities in Makeni communities

• Standard Times
• 28 June 2011

Full force delegation headed by the EPA Executive Chairperson, Madam Haddijatou Jallow, visited the Addax operational areas and got first hand information from the community people.