Australia

Canadian investors - particularly pension funds - have led the way in changing Australian city money attitudes to agriculture.

Al Dahra Agriculture says deal will give it access to a strategic growers and suppliers base, in addition to farming land in Western Australia

The notorious reluctance of Australian superannuation funds to invest in agriculture because of perceptions it is too risky, volatile and low-return may be slowly changing, according to key farm and food industry players.

The amount of agricultural land owned by Chinese interests has soared above 3 million hectares, more than double the 1.46 million declared by the Australian Taxation Office last month, according to a Fairfax Media analysis of reported land sales.

Joe Lewis, the owner of football team Tottenham Hotspur, is the ultimate owner of the AA Trust, which has just converted 59 of 160 Convertible Notes into fully paid ordinary shares in AACo.

Quatre familles parmi les plus riches d’Australie s'associent pour s'interposer entre un investisseur chinois et son objectif, le groupe Kidman qui détient 2,5% des terres agricoles d’Australie et 185 000 têtes de bétail.

Un groupe d'éleveurs australiens contre la femme la plus riche du pays, alliée à un groupe chinois : c'est l'affiche d'un duel qui s'annonce passionnant, avec en ligne de mire, les terres agricoles de la famille Kidman.

Chinese-backed company Harmony Beef and Cattle is buying the Earl of Stradbroke's grand rural property Mt Fyans in the Western District of Victoria for about $34 million.

Billionaire Gina Rinehart and a minority Chinese partner agreed to buy Australia’s most iconic cattle company in a deal valued at about A$365 million ($277 million).

Pour la troisième fois, un groupe chinois tente de se porter acquéreur des stations d'élevage de la famille Kidman.

Le groupe chinois Shanghai Cred s'associe au puissant groupe minier australien Hancock pour parvenir à ses fins : acheter le premier propriétaire foncier d'Australie, Kidman and Co.

Since the day it was released, the accuracy of the Australian government’s Foreign Owned Agricultural Land Register has come into question, with rural industry stakeholders disputing the amount of land actually held by Chinese interests