Retirement fund and financial services firm TIAA-CREF is helping to meet the growing institutional demand for sustainably managed farmland, which can deliver stable returns above inflation.

Les investisseurs étrangers ne sont plus autorisés à acheter des terres agricoles en Hongrie, en vertu d'une loi votée par le Parlement et qualifiée d'« historique » par le gouvernement.

Hungary this week moved to ban foreign ownership of agricultural land under its new constitution amid fears over the future of family farming in the country.

El país no ha definido todavía cuánta tierra pueden comprar los extranjeros. Hay que encontrar un equilibrio entre agroindustria competitiva, seguridad alimentaria y mano de obra campesina.

Making credit easier to obtain for many farmers and possibly opening up agriculture to foreign investment are two of the latest moves designed to develop the sector in Algeria

La companía fue fundada en 2007 con el objeto de canalizar fondos para la compra y desarrollo de campos en la Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay, la producción agropecuaria y la comercialización de sus productos.

Report from Indigenous Peoples Organization of Bian Enim

Nasako Besingi, director of environmental NGO Struggle to Economize the Future, says protests against a controversial palm oil plantation in the Korup National Park, southwest Cameroon will continue despite arrests and intimidation.

he Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has upheld a complaint lodged by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) against a rogue palm oil company and has ordered it to immediately stop clearing customary forests in Indonesian Borneo.

"Large scale agriculture investment requires a lot of transparency and legal certainty, and that is what is lacking most of the time," he says. "We have seen that large-scale investment coming - I'm not saying that it is wrong, but it should be very clearly covered by countries' legislation.

From next month (January 2013), Tanzania will start restricting the size of land that single large-scale foreign and local investors can "lease" for agricultural use.

The Farm Land Security Board of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan has now hired an investigator with some "special skills" and experience to look into illegal farm sales to foreign investors.

Autre thème sensible, l'accaparement des terres. « Je suis contre, bien entendu, et j'en toucherai deux mots sur place », assure Guillaume Garot, alors que des entreprises françaises sont aujourd'hui à l'oeuvre sur le continent, notamment pour la production de biocarburants.

The fund house aims to capitalise on Japanese pension plans' growing interest in new investment types, including Asian fixed income and certain alternatives like farmland

Ce document est le résultat d’une étude réalisée au Bénin, et plus particulièrement dans dans la commune de Djidja, par Synergie Paysanne en partenariat avec le CCFD-Terre Solidaire.