Australia

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.
Funds buy Great Southern land
- Dow Jones
- 28 January 2011
Alberta pension fund pays $415 million for more than 1500 square miles of forest in Australia to be converted to timber plantations and agriculture.
Cottoning on to foreign investors
- The Courier-Mail
- 24 January 2011
Olam executive sees good side to overseas investment in Australian farming.
Foreign group buys up land
- Noosa News
- 18 January 2011
Hong Kong-based Nexis Holdings has a $500 million budget to purchase farmland between northern New South Wales and North Queensland.
Multinational eyes farmland
- Sunshine Coast Daily
- 13 January 2011
Is the Sunshine Coast at risk of losing the farm to foreign interests?
Food reserve planned, but imports leave UAE vulnerable
- The National
- 12 January 2011
Several national companies and even the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the capital's sovereign fund, are planning investments in agriculture in countries as diverse as Vietnam, Cambodia, Pakistan, Australia, Romania and the United States.
Future of food policy must start at home
- SMH
- 10 January 2011
Foreign farmland acquisitions are a telling vote of no confidence in international markets by food-deficient countries, which understandably fear a repeat of the 2008 food crisis may deny them opportunities to buy grains and other essential soft commodities at any price.
The changing face of agricultural business
- Farm Weekly
- 30 December 2010
"We want to make agriculture sexy," says the head of Macquaraie's Retail Agribuiness operation.