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Pensions money invested in farmland abroad
- Radio Sweden
- 07 December 2011
Swedish pensions money is threatening the livelihoods of small farming communities in Brazil and risk speeding up the devastation of the rainforest.
Almost four environmental defenders a week killed in 2017
- Guardian
- 03 February 2018
The slaughter of people defending their land or environment continued unabated in 2017, with new research showing almost four people a week were killed worldwide in struggles against mines, plantations, poachers and infrastructure projects.
How to stop European money fuelling land grabbing overseas
- Global Witness
- 04 November 2016
A worrying number of land grabs in developing countries involve European companies or are backed by European money – from banks, equity and pension funds, for instance.
Here’s how this fundie is making money from the land
- AFR
- 02 June 2025
Australian farmers aren’t the only ones cheering the rocketing price of almonds and beef from the simmering trade tensions between the US and China – a cohort of fund managers is also in the money.
Revealed: major banks and investors including Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock are pouring money into global forest destruction
- Global Witness
- 23 September 2019
New investigation by Global Witness uncovers more than 300 banks and investors back six of the world’s most harmful agribusinesses to the tune of $44bn.
Speculating with lives: How global investors make money out of hunger
- Der Spiegel
- 01 September 2011
The idea of combining the greed of investors with the fight against hunger as a mutually beneficial business venture has failed miserably
Money to burn
- Global Witness
- 23 September 2019
Global Witness exposes how more than 300 banks and investors back six of the world’s most harmful agribusinesses to the tune of $44bn
'It's very, very hard to lose money on farmland'
- Agrimoney
- 02 December 2015
"There is no limit to the scale we can achieve" says Farmland Partners CEO, as his company plans to branch out from US into Australia and New Zealand.
State pension money invested in ‘questionable’ Congo palm oil company
- Sunday Times
- 06 April 2021
The South African Government Employees Pension Fund and the country's Public Investment Corporation are invested in a Congolese palm oil business linked to past human rights abuses and land expropriation.
Money talks: Qatar's FIFA bid fits sovereign wealth fund investment strategy
- Bleacher Report
- 13 January 2011
A closer look at Qatar’s successful bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the relationship between sports investments by oil-rich nations and acquisitions by their sovereign wealth funds.
A land grab case against Agilis Ranch 20 and 21 Limited kicks off next week
- Witness Radio
- 15 April 2022
Agilis is one of the three multinational companies that have been implicated in the land grabbing scandal which has rendered thousands of smallholder farmers homeless in the Kiryandongo district, Uganda.
Water and land grab week: Global food security and land grabs
- Progressio
- 28 Mar 2013
In recent times the practice of land grabbing (which is intrinsically tied with water grabbing) has increased.
Africa boom lures investors as growth set to double: week ahead
- Bloomberg
- 02 May 2010
Capital flows into Africa, include farmland acquisitions by foreign investors, rose 16 percent in 2008 to a record $62 billion even as FDI that year fell 20 percent worldwide
Be wary of exotic investments in your self invested personal pension
- Mindful Money
- 14 February 2013
Describing itself as a consultant and “master distributor” of products designed “to bring working capital to a variety of projects” – including upgrading farmland overseas and forestry –Intelligent Partnership published a 76 page report on the alternatives sector this week.
Jim Rogers on why gold is glittering so brightly
- Business Week
- 25 November 2009
"It's very, very cheap, it's incredibly fertile, and it hasn't been overexploited. And if you take in some expertise and some machinery and some fertilizer, you should make a lot of money," says investment guru Jim Rogers of Africa's farmlands
The global farmland grab by pension funds needs to stop
- GRAIN
- 13 November 2018
Money from pension funds has fuelled the financial sector's massive move into farmland investing over the past decade. The number of pension funds involved in farmland investment and the amount of money they are deploying into it is increasing, under the radar.
World Bank approves $200 million IFC loan for industrial agriculture in Brazil’s Cerrado
- Mongabay
- 01 July 2022
A major loan was approved this week for an industrial food producer operating in Brazil, despite concerns that the money would ultimately fund activities that contribute to deforestation.
The myopia of 'Save our Farms'
- NZ Herald
- 24 August 2010
The creation this week of the 'Save our Farms' campaign to block foreign ownership of New Zealand farm land has fired up a debate that needs to be had.
For-profit investments are not ‘development’
- New Internationalist
- 20 January 2020
The British government is ramping up its policy to divert taxpayers’ money into private hands and plantation companies like Feronia – and away from the world’s poorest people, warns Labour’s Dan Carden.
Australia: China sour on dairy management
- Financial Review
- 22 September 2014
Despite all the hype around Chinese investment in the Australian dairy sector, one Chinese investor who bought a dairy farm five years ago has lost money and will not buy again.
What price NZ? Land bid tests limits
- NZ Herald
- 27 May 2011
Last week, bids closed for an 83% stake in Fonterra's biggest supplier, Dairy Holdings, which oversees 72 South Island farms. Bidders reportedly include Chinese dairy giant Bright Dairy, a pastoral fund owned by Australian investment bank Macquarie Group, British private equity firm Terra Firma. US private equity firm Carlyle Group and the Harvard Endowment Fund.
Land investors crowd the waiting room
- Progressive Farmer
- 11 May 2011
So many Wall Street-types crammed the Waldorf Astoria in New York City last week for a global farmland and agribusiness conference that hosts warned the crowd of 600 not to block the fire exits.
Picking up broken pieces: victims of land grabs in Uganda have resolved to put their past aside to build a new life.
- Witness Radio
- 04 July 2023
At a week-long camp held in Kassanda district, members of the informal Alliance for victim communities of irresponsible land investments have resolved to use any available opportunity at their disposal to re-build a new life.
Kick-start meeting: CFS Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment
- IAFN
- 20 Mar 2015
This week members of the Private Sector Mechanism (PSM) were at the UN FAO Head Quarters in Rome to give their views on how new Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment can be used to respond to the urgent need to increase global investment in farm production.
Mega quarry land north of Toronto bought by burgeoning farm fund Bonnefield
- Financial Post
- 13 July 2013
Bonnefield Financial, a farmland investment company based in Ottawa, announced this week that it has acquired about 6,500 acres of lush Dufferin County potato fields in what it called one of the largest farmland transactions in Canadian history.
Agri-business still an unexploited sector
- Daily Monitor
- 22 August 2011
Last week, Uganda received a 35 man business delegation from India interested in the country’s agribusiness potential and boosting its exploits. Mr Ramakrishna Karuturi, the leader of the delegation, said the team intends to invest up to $2 billion in agribusiness pending the issue of investment licences.
Why corporate Canada is very interested in buying the farm
- Globe and Mail
- 24 November 2010
Saskatchewan has some of the richest and least expensive farmland in the world, and there's a gigantic pool of global money that would like to buy up as much of it as they can.
Wall St. funds flirt with farmland
- Progressive Farmer
- 14 June 2016
Wall Street remains enamored with US and international farmland, speakers at a Farm Foundation meeting in Louisville said last week.
Farmers sample what Libya offers
- Business Day
- 09 November 2009
De Jager is worried about Libya’s record in enforcing contracts with foreign companies, and the lack of social support networks. “There’s a lot of money to be made for someone with balls,” he says.
Ambassador speaks out on Egypt’s 2m acre land claim
- The Monitor
- 30 September 2008
In the past week, the alleged claim by Egypt’s Agriculture minister Amin Abaza that Uganda offered his country over 2 million acres of fertile land to produce wheat to feed the Arab nation’s 81 million people has rattled Ugandans.