Australia

Macquarie seeks crop land
- Stock & Land
- 16 August 2010
Macquarie Group's agricultural division has launched a new cropping fund that will buy large-scale grain properties in Australia and Brazil.
Australia opposition may tweak foreign investment laws
- Dow Jones
- 02 August 2010
Australia's opposition leader Tony Abbott said his Liberal-National coalition of center-right parties could revise the country's foreign investment laws if it wins power in the Aug. 21 general election.
Liberals to limit foreign farm investment
- The Australian
- 31 July 2010
LABOR has demanded the Coalition back foreign investment in the farm sector after it said he would be prepared to limit foreign purchases.
Coalition backs Greens' call for register of foreign farm ownership
- ABC
- 29 July 2010
The Federal Opposition is supporting a call for a national register of foreign purchases of land and water in rural Australia.
Greens want foreign ownership register for farming
- ABC
- 28 July 2010
The Greens have called for a national register of foreign purchases of land and water in Australia.
Australia, NZ fear foreign buy-up of farmland
- Radio Australia
- 27 July 2010
New Zealand's Green Party has drafted a bill seeking to stop overseas buyers snapping up large tracts of NZ land. Australian farmers also fear they may have trouble coping with future food and water demands if foreign interests snap up too many of the nation's agricultural resources.
Labor rejects food security concerns
- ABC
- 27 July 2010
Critics say Australia's Labor party has failed to come to grips with country's future food security, including the acquisition of domestic farmland by foreign investors
A wide open land
- ABC
- 25 July 2010
As the world's available farming land shrinks in the face of population growth, climate change and soil degradation, Australia's vast tracts of land are going to be increasingly important for global food security. Is the sell-off in Australia's long term interests?
Selling the farm
- ABC
- 25 July 2010
Foreign interests including state-owned companies from China and the Middle East are increasingly looking to Australia to secure their food production by purchasing key agricultural assets.
Malaysia's Sugar King Kuok has gone global
- The Star
- 06 July 2010
Wilmar, which already owns 200,000 ha of sugar cane plantations in Indonesia, said it intended to use Sucrogen’s proven expertise in the sugar business to pursue growth strategies in “Indonesia and other high potential Asian markets.’’
TIAA-CREF: Why investments in farmland are now 'like gold'
- Bloomberg
- 29 June 2010
TIAA-CREF owns agricultural land in the US, Australia, Brazil and central and Eastern Europe, most of which is leased out.
$1b Arab fund to buy Aussie farms
- The Land
- 22 June 2010
Western Gulf Advisory, a Bahrain-Zurich based company, plans to invest $1 billion into the Australian economy, including farm acquisitions, over the next few years.