China

Empresarios chinos y agroindustria presionan congreso para cambiar reglas, pero ambientalistas temen consecuencias.

Australia's foreign investment regulator no longer believes private companies in China are free of Communist Party control, and plans on subjecting Chinese takeovers and deals, such as those for farmland, to more screening on national security grounds.

Chinese firm Jiangsu Lianfa is now crop testing in Pursat province, in the country’s west, and will start growing cotton on 180 hectares of land if test results are satisfactory.

Illegally banana plantations backed by obscure nexus of Chinese investors are making quick profits for some, but fuelling land conflict and environmental degradation in Kachin province, Myanmar.

FarmCompany, a farmland investment company owned by investors from England, Hong Kong and the Netherlands, adds a 545 ha dairy farm to its portfolio of farms covering 1,605 ha across Denmark.

Foreign ownership of Australian agricultural land rose more than two million hectares in the past year, with investors from the island nation of the Bahamas buying up 2,201,000 hectares.

Los nexos entre el delito, la corrupción y quienes están involucrados en negocios que acaparan tierras agrícolas son reales.

South Africa's Karan family accepted a R5.2bn offer for its cattle feedlot from a South African pension fund over a R6bn offer from Chinese investors who wanted to export all of its meat

The project will utilize identified extensive arable land with clean water springs in the municipalities of Porto Amboim and Cela in Kwanza Sul and Ambaca in Kwanza Norte.

The Governor of Meru, Kenya has promised Chinese investors free land as he seeks to attract investment in agribusiness and the hospitality industry.

At the Triangular People's Conference on ProSavana in Tokyo, Japanese researcher Sayaka Funada-Classen explains how this agricultural megaproject in northern Mozambique follows Japan's historical model.

The Wee Statutory District Representative, Vicent Willie, told reporters that he and his partners from India and China have concluded talks to engage into large scale farming.