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US investors plough cash into farmland
- BBC
- 05 October 2010
Investment managers in the US report rising interest from pension schemes and retail investors in funds that buy and run farmland in developed countries.
Saudis to invest $500 million in Brazil agriculture
- QNA
- 05 October 2010
Representatives of Saudi group Agro invest, a public-private agricultural investment company, are now in Brazil seeking partnerships for producing and exporting grain and poultry.
La Via Campesina demands FAO to support the real solutions to the food crisis
- Via Campesina
- 04 October 2010
Farmers from La Via Campesina will be at meeting of the FAO Committee on World Food Security next week to demand concrete measures to tackle the problem of land-grabbing.
Down on the farm
- BBC
- 04 October 2010
The rights and wrongs of global agricultural investment examined on Business Daily of the BBC
TIAA acquires controlling interest in Westchester Group, Inc.
- TIAA-CREF
- 04 October 2010
TIAA is among the largest institutional investors in agriculture, with investments in more than 400 farms in North America, South America, Australia, and Eastern Europe as part of its General Account.
African delegation encourages Turkey to lease farmland on continent
- Hurriyet
- 04 October 2010
Fallow land in Africa presents a fantastic opportunity for Turkish businesspeople involved in agriculture, a Ugandan member of a cotton delegation visiting western Turkey said Monday.
Merauke food estate: Weighing the agricultural balance
- Jakarta Post
- 04 October 2010
News of progress on the massive Merauke food estate in Papua indicates growing momentum behind Indonesia’s attempts to boost its agricultural output through promoting investment and harnessing technology.
World divided over new scramble for African land
- East African
- 04 October 2010
The morality of the global land rush is finely balanced and even the World Bank appears deeply torn.
Are they appropriate agricultural investments or 'land grabs'? Depends on who you ask
- East African
- 04 October 2010
The EAC food security strategy advises partner states to “resist leasing or selling large chunks of land to foreign entities for food production or bio-fuels solely for export.”
GM 'lesser of two evils': Olam
- The Land
- 04 October 2010
Mr Verghese says that Olam sees "sustainable value" in investing in agriculture, including farmland, and that GM crops are an inevitable "must".
Foreign investment in Aussie farms is nothing unusual
- Australian Farm Journal
- 04 October 2010
The anxiety expressed in some farming quarters and the daily media about Australian farms becoming dominated by foreign corporations and governments fails to recognise that the coming and going of overseas investors has always been part of rural property transactions.
SLC Agricola may sell stake in Brazil farmland unit this year, CEO says
- Bloomberg
- 02 October 2010
SLC, whose crops cover 223,000 hectares, will sell a 49 percent slice of the new company, Land Co., to local or foreign investors that may include sovereign and pension funds