The Pharos Miro Agricultural fund, with a minimum subscription of $6m, is being offered to family offices, private equity groups and other investors across the Middle East.
Foreign companies are covertly buying up adjacent farms in Australia to use as a "salad bowl" in the case of global food shortages.
Lured by a new business model, wealthy nations flock to farmland in Ethiopia, locking in food supplies grown half a world away
Documentary highlighting the investment opportunities in Ethiopia, produced for the Saudi-East African Forum.
As the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank, announces plans to increase investment in agribusiness by up to 30 per cent in the next three years, NGO reports shed light on the IFC's role in the 'land grab' movement and flaws in its approach to the food crisis.
There’s a whole school of economic thought that says that Collier is wrong, that big is not necessarily better in agriculture — and that the land deals therefore might be unwise not because they’re wrong but because they’re unprofitable.
An Abu Dhabi-based private sector investment firm has signed a contract to lease up to 700,000 hectares of farmland in Morocco, a company executive said yesterday.
Farmers from South Korea, Kuwait and the United States have also arrived in Kwara state, some 400 km northwest of Lagos, which is keen to attract more investors and help Nigeria end its import reliance.
Investment in agriculture is soaring. So, worryingly, is distrust of markets and trade.
Segundo as ONGs "Grain" e La Via Campesina, "alguns governos, como o da Arábia Saudita e Coreia do Sul pressionam essa forma de agir, como estratégia comercial.
Unos 400 delegados provenientes de 70 países de América Latina y África, que participan en la cumbre paralela organizada frente a la FAO y autorizada por la entidad de Naciones Unidas, protestan desde el lunes en denuncia por "la compra masiva de tierras" por parte de grandes firmas agro-alimentarias con la complicidad de la FAO.
International farmland-investment standards of the kind being worked upon are much needed. But agricultural agencies such as the FAO are not equipped to establish good property-rights regimes in the developing world, writes the Globe and Mail
