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).
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
Land Investment Firm, TW Hammerson sees soaring values for farmland in the UK, with an increasing demand for farmland in Africa.
Histoire de la lutte victorieuse de l'Union des Associations et des Coordinations d’Associations pour le Développement et la Défense des Droits des Démunis au Mali contre pour récupérer les terres de cultures ayant fait l’objet de bornage unilatéral par l'entreprise chinoise COVEC sans qu’ils en soient informés ou associé
Les fonds de pension sont peut-être l’une des rares catégories d’accapareurs de terres auxquelles les gens peuvent couper l’herbe sous le pied, pour la bonne et simple raison que c’est de leur argent qu’il s’agit.
Los fondos de pensiones pueden ser uno de los pocos tipos de acaparadores de tierras que los trabajadores pueden desbaratar, por el sólo hecho que ellos son los dueños del dinero
Politicians throughout the Parliament united this week to raise concerns about the level of foreign investment throughout Australia.
Japanese translation of article of GRAIN, "Pension funds: key players in the global farmland grab"
Le producteur français de matières premières agricoles AgroGeneration a lancé une augmentation de capital de 10 millions d'euros afin de financer l'acquisition de silos en Ukraine et le développement du groupe en Argentine.
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.
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.
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.
The buy-up of prime agricultural land by Shenhua has sparked a furious political debate in Australia
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.
Le ministère de l'Agriculture et de l'Environnement a nié la décision de la Tunisie de louer 10 mille hectares de terres agricoles aux investisseurs étrangers.
