• China’s agritech brings water to Egypt’s giant beet sugar factory in Sahara Desert
    • SCMP
    • 04 June 2025

    Near the edge of the Sahara Desert, in Egypt’s West Minya, Chinese drillers bore deep into the earth, tapping groundwater to irrigate a once 500-hectare stretch of desert – now home to the world’s largest beet sugar factory, owned by UAE investors.

  • Hong Kong tycoon snares carbon project in outback WA
    • AFR
    • 26 May 2025

    One of Hong Kong’s wealthiest tycoons, Li Ka-Shing, whose interests include energy and agricultural investments in this country, has forged into the carbon market, acquiring a vast Western Australian landholding earmarked for a ‘regenerative agriculture’ project.

  • Why Chinese investors are racing to plant durians in Southeast Asia
    • Think China
    • 21 May 2025

    Lao Red Loong Durian is leasing 500 hectares of land in Vientiane province, Laos and has completed the development of a first-phase 60-hectare pilot zone, planting over 7,000 Black Thorn durian trees.

  • Brasil e China firmam acordo de cooperação sobre restauração de vegetação e sumidouros de carbono
    • Notícia in Foco
    • 13 May 2025

    O memorando assinado às vésperas da COP30 tem o objetivo de compartilhar conhecimento, dados e tecnologias em restauração de pastagens e florestas, como metodologias de medição de sumidouros de carbono. A iniciativa integra os esforços do Brasil para cumprir as NDCs até 2030 com a restauração de 12 milhões de ha.

  • Guerra comercial entre Estados Unidos e China aquece mercado de terras no Brasil
    • Portal do Agronegócio
    • 02 May 2025

    Redirecionamento de mercados beneficia o agronegócio e começa a transformar o mercado imobiliário rural impulsionado pela necessidade de ampliar áreas para pecuária, soja e milho. Lei brasileira que limita compra e arrendamento de terras por estrangeiros oferece barreira.

  • Uzbek farmers say they're being forced to surrender land to Chinese firms
    • Radio Free Europe
    • 23 April 2025

    Farmers in Uzbekistan say the government is forcing them to surrender land to Chinese businesses under the guise of state-backed development, taking thousands of hectares of fertile cotton and wheat fields out of the hands of locals.

  • Ruto secures Sh107 billion deals from Chinese investors to propel Kenya's economy, create jobs
    • The Star
    • 23 April 2025

    Agricultural ventures feature prominently, with Shandong Jialejia Agriculture committing Sh3.9 billion to a 500,000-hen egg farm in Kajiado, Zonken Group investing Sh41.6 billion in a 300-acre aloe vera processing plant in Baringo and Sh10.4 billion for a 72-acre grape vineyard.

  • NSDC, Chinese firm sign $1bn sugar production deal in Nigeria
    • NAN
    • 13 April 2025

    The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) and Chinese conglomerate, SINOMACH have agreed to jointly develop a large-scale sugarcane cultivation and processing project in Nigeria.

  • Uzbekistan denies claims of land sales to China
    • Times of Central Asia
    • 18 Mar 2025

    Despite persistent rumors, only 4% of Chinese investment in Uzbekistan goes into agriculture. Foreign investors cannot purchase land, it can only be leased for a maximum of 25 years through open auctions.

  • Three Chinese companies won economic land concessions in Ratanakiri Province
    • Weixin
    • 16 Mar 2025

    According to Cambodian media, the Ratanakiri Provincial Information Bureau recently issued a notice announcing the approval of 17 foreign-funded enterprises to obtain economic land concessions (ELC) in the province, covering agricultural planting, agro-industrial integration and beef cattle breeding. Among foreign companies that have obtained economic land concessions, Vietnamese companies dominate, followed by Chinese and Indian companies. In addition, 10 local companies have also obtained land investment with a total area of ​​146,366 hectares.

  • Cairo, Beijing keen to consolidate agricultural ties
    • Egyptian Gazette
    • 12 Mar 2025

    The Egyptian government and a Chinese business delegation are planning for the establishment of an agricultural investment project in the New Valley Governorate through “China Railway,” one of China’s major companies, to produce potatoes, wheat, and soybeans.

  • Chinese firm accused of Chachoengsao land grab
    • Bangkok Post
    • 27 February 2025

    Thailand's Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee is intensifying its investigation into a Chinese business illegally clearing over 600 rai of national forest land in Chachoengsao's Tha Takiab district to cultivate durian.

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