• Asset-backed Real Islamic Investments Offer Remedy to Financial Uncertainties, says UK-based cru Investment Management
    • Zawya
    • 25 October 2008

    The fund, which will invest in commercial agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa, has dual-purpose - to ensure returns in the range of 15-20 per cent, while the investment helps to create jobs and give rural Africans the chance to help themselves out of poverty. Currently, cru has significant exposure to commercial agriculture in Malawi with over 2,500 hectares of land under its own control and another 4,000 hectares in outgrower schemes.

  • Valuable lessons to learn now from the Sudan conflict
    • Jakarta Post - Opinion and Editorial
    • 22 October 2008

    Recently, Sudan was reported to have leased more than 800,000 hectares of its most fertile land to the Saudis. Several other Gulf countries, including Egypt, are in the process of closing similar deals. It is expected several hundred thousand hectares more will be leased out by the end of this year. The lease tenure is 99 years. At least two generations of Sudanese will have to live with the decisions made by their leader.

  • Malagasy land and foreign investments
    • Quest Bulgaria
    • 21 October 2008

    Nowadays, the concern of the Malagasy governement is focused on how to attract foreign private investments. The new Malagasy investment law, Act 2007-036 of January 14th, 2008, has brought a very key change concerning the possibility for foreigners to own their land in Madagascar

  • Buy Land and Cash in on Profits
    • Quest Bulgaria
    • 20 October 2008

    With shaky stock markets across the globe, more and more investors are looking to buy tracts of land with and without planning permission in emerging markets and in particular in Bulgaria, where agricultural land prices alone are twice as low as the rest of the Eastern bloc.

  • UAE examines farm future
    • The National
    • 19 October 2008

    Some experts believe that the emphasis should be on overseas agricultural investments as well as a boost in trade relationships, due to the unavoidable handicaps to domestic agriculture.

  • Rising wheat crisis | Pakistan eyeing corporate farming
    • The Post
    • 12 October 2008

    Talks are on with investors from Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia. 25,000 Punjab villages will be affected.

  • PE looks at Brazilian agriculture
    • PE Hub
    • 11 October 2008

    Private equity funds remain optimistic that Brazil’s farm sector offers investment opportunities despite the deteriorating world credit market, executives said on Thursday.

  • Private equity bullish on Brazil ag despite crisis
    • Reuters
    • 09 October 2008

    Private equity funds remain optimistic that Brazil's farm sector offers investment opportunities despite the deteriorating world credit market, executives said on Thursday.

  • Farming Makes a Comeback in Russia
    • Business Week
    • 09 October 2008

    Investors are pouring billions into Russian agribusiness—and trying to reverse decades of Soviet mismanagement.

  • Ivory Coast land tensions fester ahead of polls
    • Reuters
    • 09 October 2008

    The question of land ownership in Africa has become more pertinent as foreign investors tap a global need for food and energy security by investing in land and agricultural or biofuel projects in the developing world.

  • Cambodia - Socfin-KCD contract on rubber plantation
    • FIDH
    • 08 October 2008

    Contract on the investment of rubber and agro-industry plantation between the Govt of Cambodia and KCD (SOCFIN) of 8 October 2008

  • CHS, Mitsui & Co. raise stake in Multigrain JV in Brazil
    • World-Grain.com
    • 08 October 2008

    The owners of Multigrain, a leading Brazil-based agricultural commodity business, announced today the company has acquired 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres) of farmland and related processing operations intended to strengthen its ability to serve customers around the world.

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