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...Real estate is designed to generate income, farmland is designed to generate income. Jobs at the FT are designed to generate income. Lol. But, still, who cares?...
...That didn’t hold back the meteoric ambitions of Evergrande — the highly indebted Chinese property developer — which had planned to convert a 2.2m sq ft plot of farmland in the territory’s Yuen Long district...
...This was the valuation put on Greenland by bullish Alphaville LLC researchers, according to The Guardian. The Isle of Man does not have the same reserves of oil or uranium....
...In the other direction, to the south-eastern delta area, endless woods and farmland fill the landscape, with shrinking small towns scattered throughout the region....
...At the moment, Chinese companies are not facing the same political resistance in Brazil to their investments as in other countries, such as Australia, where they have been barred from some farmland and electricity...
...TIAA-CREF manages around $8bn in farmland assets....
...Shankar Athreya has moved from Singapore, where he was global head of strategy and business development at Olam International, to London to take up a job as head of farmland investments at Insight Investment...
...US foundations are also buying up wind farms and farmland, on the theory that its supply is fixed and can only grow more valuable as the population grows....
...US farmers were not the only victims as bad weather affected almost all of the world’s top food producing regions: the Black Sea region of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, the Latin American farmland belt...
...●Insight Investment has hired David Beca, previously chief executive of NZ Farming Systems Uruguay, as head of farmland management....
...Pension funds across the globe are ramping up holdings of so-called “real assets” such as property, infrastructure and farmland, as they move to protect their portfolios against inflation....
...Glencore’s industrial businesses – including stakes in Xstrata and other companies, its own mines, oilfields and farmland – suffered from weak global demand....
...“It is surprisingly difficult to get pure exposure to farmland,” he says....
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