China

Brasil dividido por la compra de tierras por extranjeros
- Diálogo Chino
- 22 January 2019
Empresarios chinos y agroindustria presionan congreso para cambiar reglas, pero ambientalistas temen consecuencias.
Chinese investors protest against new crackdown on investment
- AFR
- 18 January 2019
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.
Cambodia: Chinese firm to invest in cotton plantations
- Khmer Times
- 18 January 2019
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.
Kachin’s plantation curse
- Frontier Myanmar
- 17 January 2019
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.
Foreign fund buys its fifth farm in Denmark
- FarmCompany
- 10 January 2019
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.
More foreign ownership of NT than anywhere else
- Katherine Times
- 08 January 2019
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.
Acaparamiento de tierras, financiamiento ilícito y delitos corporativos: una actualización
- GRAIN
- 11 December 2018
Los nexos entre el delito, la corrupción y quienes están involucrados en negocios que acaparan tierras agrícolas son reales.
Karan Beef cashes in on exponential growth in demand from China
- Bloomberg
- 29 November 2018
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
Sino Agro Food. Inc signs a memorandum of understanding for aquaculture development in Angola
- PRNewswire
- 23 November 2018
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.
Meru woos Chinese investors with free land, licences
- The Nation
- 21 November 2018
The Governor of Meru, Kenya has promised Chinese investors free land as he seeks to attract investment in agribusiness and the hospitality industry.
The colonial empire of Japan and the origins of the ProSavana agricultural project in Mozambique
- DW
- 20 November 2018
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.
Liberia: Lawmaker eyes mechanised farming in Grand Bassa County
- FrontPageAfrica
- 19 November 2018
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.