Australia

Food secrurity fears driving rush to buy farmland
- Stock & Land
- 27 Mar 2011
World food security fears may be driving the foreign rush to buy Australian farmland and agribusinesses, says Nationals' leader, Warren Truss.
Food security concerns lead to review of land ownership in Australia
- Sydney Morning Herald
- 24 Mar 2011
Parliament is calling on the Productivity Commission to review the recent surge in foreign investment in farming, focusing on its effects on the economy and food security.
South Sudan threatened by land grab
- NPA
- 23 Mar 2011
Four months before South Sudan becomes an independant nation nine percent of the country has been targeted by investors, a Norwegian People's Aid report reveals.
Wake up on foreign land grab
- WeeklyTimesNow
- 23 Mar 2011
For the sake of our farmers and our national food security, the Federal Government needs to get tough on Australia's foreign investment policy.
Chinese agricultural group to acquire 200K hectares of land globally
- Fresh Fruit Portal
- 15 Mar 2011
China’s largest agricultural company plans to acquire 200,000 hectares of land in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Australia, the Philippines, Zimbabwe and Russia in 2011.
China busca áreas de cultivo no Brasil
- EFE
- 14 Mar 2011
O principal grupo agrícola da China, Heilongjiang Beidahuang Nongken Group, anunciou que adquirirá ou arrendará 200 mil hectares de cultivo em países latino-americanos como o Brasil, assim como em Rússia, Filipinas, Austrália e Zimbábue, informou o jornal oficial "China Daily".
Australian firms eye investment in food processing sector
- Pakistan Observer
- 13 Mar 2011
Australian companies are interested in making investment in Pakistan’s agriculture sector from production of crops to their processing and export.
Who's really buying the farm?
- The Age
- 06 Mar 2011
Foreign investment in Australia's food chain is increasing at a rate that is causing concern, and not just for people on the land.
Standard Chartered Private Equity to invest $83 million in Australia’s biggest livestock exporter Wellard Group
- InvestAustralia
- 18 February 2011
The investment is to enable Wellard grow the business through a number of identified agribusinesses opportunities throughout the wider Asian region.
Arab farm investment push
- Stock & Land
- 10 February 2011
Former Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, is leading a push to get Arabs to invest in Australian farmland as part of a long term food security strategy for oil-rich Gulf States
China hungry for local food assets
- The Australian
- 31 January 2011
China is gearing up for a multi-billion-dollar investment push into the Australian agricultural sector to secure food supplies after a senior official admitted the country would face pressure supplying farm produce to its 1.3 billion people over the next five years.
Mauritian fund eyes WA wheat farms
- AFR
- 31 January 2011
Mauritian-listed JPT Capital Agrifund intends to invest Stg50 million ($A80 million) in wheat farms in Australia.