China

Citic Construction Co. will invest $250 million over five years to develop as much as 100,000 hectares of land, according to Fan Juntao, the managing director of the company in Angola.

Mardi 8 juillet, plusieurs membres du gouvernement américain ont annoncé leur volonté d’interdire aux investisseurs chinois l’acquisition de terres agricoles aux États-Unis, invoquant un enjeu de sécurité nationale. Trump semble avoir également dans le viseur les actuels propriétaires.

One of the country’s biggest milk producers – backed by the Rich Lister Perich family and China’s New Hope Group – has sold one of its major farms in Victoria’s north for close to $55 million.

La Chine a condamné mercredi les mesures envisagées par l'administration américaine pour interdire aux investisseurs chinois d'acquérir des terres agricoles américaines, dénonçant une pratique «discriminatoire».

Washington compte «prendre rapidement des mesures législatives et exécutives pour interdire l'acquisition de terres agricoles américaines aux ressortissants chinois et à d'autres adversaires étrangers», a affirmé la ministre de l'Agriculture Brooke Rollins

The US Department of Agriculture will work with state lawmakers to end farmland purchases "by nationals for countries of concern or other foreign adversaries".

Beijing AgriFam Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of China's CITIC Group, has formally committed USD $73 million towards the development of advanced feedlot infrastructure in Botswana.

Researcher argues that Chinese investors have preferred different investment models according to the specific rules of land access, transfer and control of three land tenure systems in Zambia.

Cambodian Banana Agricultural General Co Ltd (CBA), a Chinese enterprise, harvests Cavendish bananas from 500 hectares of plantations in Cambodia, and aims to expand on another 200 hectares by 2026.

The "Green Pakistan Initiative" is fast tracking Gulf agribusiness deals. Saudi & UAE firms are investing billions in Pakistani farmland, while local communities warn of land grabs & water shortages.

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.

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.