Dana Bucur in Ro media

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This is an interview first given to Active Watch mid February 2011. Reporter Maria Popa. Main Topics: Dana Bucur business activity, România, agriculture and rural development, creativity and innovation. All of it has been then published further by: one of the main business magazine Capital România (june 2011) -  and also by Think Outside the Box România (july 2011). Dana Bucur has 17 years of agricultural experience. Sometimes she worked even 14 hours without having a break. She started from the ground, building up from scratch a viable farm and now she has her own agribusiness company providing ag consultancy, including solutions for sustainable agriculture and organic farming. She graduated Economics, a Quality Master and 2 agribusiness MBAs (one in UK and the other a joint-venture between România and Germany). These are some of the reasons the sustainable community media decided to take an interview. Reporter: What kind of problems the Ro agriculture confronts with? Dana Bucur: Lack of branding,...
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Romanian Agribusiness Forum – May 11 2011, Bucharest, RO

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The Agribusiness Forum dedicated to Romanian Agribusiness Opportunities took place in Bucharest on May 11th 2011. It was a great pleasure to connect to some of the main agricultural players from Romania and worldwide. More info on http://www.agribusiness.thediplomat.ro/index.php. Looking forward to the next ag event. ...
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Agri career

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Agri Career Hot job - agribusiness consultant How did she started. In 1998 she decided to launch her own agricultural company i.e. Agriland 2000 srl alongside an UK business farmer. Since 2006, Dana Bucur started the agribusiness consultancy. Responsabilities. The next 10 year marketing strategy is focused on large CEE agribusiness market share, setting up the European Association of Agricultural Consultants and always providing creativity and dialogue with the ag stakeholders. Job challenges. Encouraging entrepreneurship and agribusiness initiatives, proper platform of autenthic agribusiness consultants, lack of pro attitude and menthality on a country basis, lack of young generations to involve in the development of the rural comunities. Job opportunities. National and international recognition. Brand awareness. Motivating people to believe and invest in agriculture. Reporter: Roxana Achim Media magazine: Cariere 2011, Romania e-Source: http://www.cariereonline.ro/articol/hot-job-dana-bucur-consultant-agribusiness...
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Romanian Agribusiness Forum 2011

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Investment in agriculture represents an emerging asset class for private and institutional investors, and Romania is one of the European countries with the highest potential for development of agriculture. The Diplomat-Bucharest, the leading English language magazine in Romania is organizing on May 11, 2011 a unique one day conference for decision-making agricultural professionals to network, do business and learn about Romania’s potential in the field of agribusiness. This will be a major event in Romania dedicated to business opportunities in agriculture, where the key players of this sector will attend to discuss the challenges and opportunities of investing in Romania’s agriculture. Unfortunately, despite the agriculture sector' development potential and its attractiveness to investors, there are issues in Romania that make the development difficult. We will offer first-hand information from Romania's authorities concerning the latest policies and regulations of the agriculture sector. Romania's top farmers and landowners will share their...
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Dana Bucur – Agribusiness Romania and worldwide (March 8th 2011)

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DANA BUCUR 15 years in the middle of NATURE and amongst PEOPLE from the agricultural universe all over the world. Business performance achieved, expertise and agribusiness consultancy performed on 37,000 ha in Romania. 3,500 ha farmed truly and consistenly in UK. 2,500 ha more covered in Western Australia. At present, Romania and Central and Eastern Europe in the centre of attraction. ...
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Eastern Europe versus South America

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August 18th 2010 Eastern Europe is getting better and better. Romania is coming along. There is a news where Brazil may create some difficulties if you want to buy land, below all article: ‘Foreign real estate investors interested in buying land in Brazil could face a tightening of restricitions as the country cracks down on ownership over food security issues. Those who have already bought land and large rural properties by creating Brazilian companies face title deeds being revoked under tough measures that are currently being drawn up, it has been confirmed. Government officials have confirmed that official policy is that foreigners should not be allowed to buy agricultural land. The Agrian Development Ministry said the government wants to tighten restrictions on foreign ownership of farm lands in Latin America’s biggest country. Ministry spokeswoman Denise Mantovani confirmed published remarks by Minister Guilherme Cassel, who said that the government does not want foreigners to buy agricultural land in Brazil. ‘We do not need foreigners to produce food in...
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Pension funds and farmland investments

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(Reuters) – Pension funds are deepening their commitment to farmland, upping investments by billions of dollars and moving to active strategies, as a hedge against potential inflation and to diversify from riskier investments. Leading the charge are U.S. and European pension funds, although it is estimated that the amount of institutional money invested is less than 1 percent of global farmland value, with concentration in food exporting regions. A growing world population, limited water resources and finite amounts of land available have made farmland attractive to investors beyond traditional owners — private families.U.S. pension fund TIAA-CREF has around $2 billion (1.3 billion pounds) invested in farmland of the $426 billion it has under management and is looking to expand its farmland holdings. “If we found the right opportunities we’d be willing to double our existing exposure over the new few years,” said Jose Minaya, managing director of global private markets at the fund.“This is just another asset class that has the potential of...
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The world agriculture industry

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A study in falling supply and raising demand By Hardman & Co Published on May 26th 2010 Agricultural Land Available: 1.5 trillion hectares Value of world’s Agricultural Land: US$5 trillion World Population 2010: 6.8bn World Population 2050: 9.1bn Africa’s Population 2010: 1.8bn Africa’s Population 2050: 3.6bn 10 Year Performance, US Farmland: +100% 10 Year Performance, UK Farmland: +95% Word per Capita Food Consumption. 1965: 2,358 kcal per person World per Capita Food Consumption 1998: 2,803 kcal per person World per Capita Food Consumption 2030 est: 3,050 kcal per person Pooled Funds Available for Agricultural Investment, Worldwide, listed in this study: 18 Quoted Agricultural Stocks Available For Investment, Worldwide, listed in this study: 42 After decades on the periphery as an investment category, farmland worldwide is increasingly becoming an acceptable holding for traditional investment funds. We believe that farmland, and agriculture generally, will shortly move beyond the ‘acceptable’ in the eyes of the world’s investment management community and become a core product. In the future, we believe, it will be as normal for a pension fund to...
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USDA AGRICULTURAL PROJECTIONS TO 2019

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Key Assumptions and Implications Major assumptions underlying the projections and selected implications include: Economic Growth • U.S. and world economic growth reflect a recovery from the global financial crisis and economic recession, with a transition back to steady economic gains. • Global economic growth is assumed to rebound to a 3.3-percent average growth rate for 2010-19. A resumption of high growth rates in emerging market countries, such as China and India, and a return to strong growth in other developing countries and countries of the former Soviet Union underpin this macroeconomic result. • The U.S. economy resumes growth at 2.5 percent in 2010 and 3.2 percent in 2011, followed by an average rate of 2.7 percent over the remainder of the projection period. With slower growth in the United States than in the world economy, the U.S. share of global gross domestic product (GDP) falls from about 27 percent currently to 25 percent at the end of the projection period. • The return to broad-based, steady global economic growth supports longer term gains in world...
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Experts forecasts a rerating of ag-related investments

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Land may become the world’s biggest asset class, and listed farm operators win an upward rerating, Hardman & Co has said in a report identifying agriculture services groups as the next focus of sector investment. Farmland prices have, in doubling in the UK and US over the last decade, made shares look “an embarrassingly inept bet”, the London broker said. Stocks have fallen by 10-20% during the same period. Farmland, whose $5,000bn value equates to about 7-10% of the value of world equity markets, could be worth 15-25% of share values by 2020. “By 2050, it is possible to argue that food producing land might have a superior value to all other asset classes,” Hardman analyst Doug Hawkins said, noting forecasts of rising global populations. “This land is feeding over 6bn people and is being pressed into feed a further 3bn by 2050.” The broker noted the growth of funds dedicated to investing in farmland, with Emergent Asset Management proposing to invest some $4bn...
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