Australia

Harvard selling large scale cropping farms
- Farm Weekly
- 18 May 2019
Harvard University has listed its large scale cropping aggregation at Hillston, New South Wales, Australia for sale
Saudi government's agriculture investor buys Australian farmland
- Bloomberg
- 04 April 2019
Saudi Agricultural & Livestock Investment Co. (SALIC) bought 200,000 hectares of farmland in Australia as the company explores global deals to expand its business.
Foreign ownership of water entitlements reveals China and US are the biggest investors
- ABC
- 25 Mar 2019
The Australian Government's long-awaited foreign ownership of water entitlement register reveals one in 10 water entitlements is foreign-owned at 10.4 per cent.
Saudi Agricultural Livestock Investment Company in $70m deal to buy John Nicoletti’s Wheatbelt farms
- West Australian
- 01 Mar 2019
The Saudi Agricultural Livestock Investment Company has emerged as the likely buyer of Australia’s biggest single parcel of broadacre farming land, based in the Wheatbelt.
Interview with Nic Wrathall, director of Undermined: Tales from the Kimberley
- ArtsHub
- 21 February 2019
Wrathall went to the the most remote and contested parts of north Western Australia to investigate stories of the forced closure of Aboriginal communities. What he found instead was a complex and complicated set of issues around the ways that huge mineral-rich region is being developed by government, big mining and big agriculture.
Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana creates $100m separate account with AgIS
- GAI
- 29 January 2019
TRSL has also expanded another of its separate accounts held with Hancock Agricultural Investment Group by $25 million, focusing on farmland in the US and Australia.
Global asset and risk manager receives Guernsey Green Fund designation
- International Investment
- 21 January 2019
Insight Investment received a Guernsey Green Fund accreditation for its farmland fund, the Global Farmland Fund Limited (GFF), which invests in farming projects worldwide
Chinese investors protest against new crackdown on investment
- AFR
- 18 January 2019
Australia's foreign investment regulator no longer believes private companies in China are free of Communist Party control, and plans on subjecting Chinese takeovers and deals, such as those for farmland, to more screening on national security grounds.
BFB, one of Australia’s largest grain growers, announces new majority shareholder, PSP Investments
- Mirage News
- 15 January 2019
One of Canada’s largest pension funds acquires majority stake in Australian company that owns 44,167 ha of arable land, as well as significant grain storage, fertilizer, agronomy, livestock, farming and logistics businesses.
Consolidated Pastoral Company sells three stations in NT and WA
- Weekly Times
- 09 January 2019
One of Australia’s largest pastoral empires has sold three properties in its portfolio spanning more than 740,00ha to a Vietnamese investment group in a deal understood to be worth $135 million.
More foreign ownership of NT than anywhere else
- Katherine Times
- 08 January 2019
Foreign ownership of Australian agricultural land rose more than two million hectares in the past year, with investors from the island nation of the Bahamas buying up 2,201,000 hectares.
ANZ declines to ‘do the right thing’ for displaced Cambodian farmers
- IDI
- 18 December 2018
ANZ Banking Group violated its own policies and international human rights standards by financing a Cambodian sugar company that seized land from local farmers, according to a report released by an Australian government body that monitors corporate behavior overseas.