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FT correspondents report on the global race for land from Ethiopia, Myanmar and Indonesia.

Australia's deputy prime minister on Tuesday urged the country's A$1.8 trillion (US$1.3 trillion) pension fund industry to boost its investment in agriculture as the sector gears up to meet strong demand from Asia.

Villagers say they were not consulted about plans to turn their land into grazing grounds and believe it was a ploy by officials who planned to profit from renting out 300 acres to a Chinese company for a banana plantation.

Fondateur du site Alibaba, le milliardaire Jack Ma achète le Château de Sours, une propriété en AOC Bordeaux de 80 hectares de vigne. D’autres doivent suivre.

There are fresh calls for closer scrutiny of “who owns what” amid concerns baby formula and dairy product prices could soar after Treasurer Scott Morrison rubber-stamped the sale of Australia’s biggest dairy farm to Chinese business interests.

A Chinese investment firm has won approval to buy Australia's oldest dairy farm, making it the first overseas company to be subject to new rules aimed at ensuring foreign companies pay tax on their Australian earnings.

Heilongjiang Hegang Sanjiang Plain Rice Group is embarking on a pilot production on 500 hectares of farmland, thereafter expanding to 10,000 hectares.

The African Institute for Agrarian Studies brought Southern scholars, activists, practitioners, and farmers to Harare, Zimbabwe to learn from each other’s work and experiences to advance social justice projects for the rural global South.

The fund planned to invest in the northern province of Heilongjiang, where it has bought almost 8,000 acres of rice farming land known for its nutrient-rich black soil.

Billionaire trucker Lindsay Fox is making a late bid to keep Australia’s largest outback cattle ­empire in local hands with a push to buy the sprawling S. Kidman & Co stations that are set to fall into Chinese hands.

1.500 hectares auraient déjà été acquis par une société de Hong Kong dans l'Indre

Le groupe d’investisseurs chinois intéressés à acheter des terres agricoles au Témiscamingue et ainsi exporter de la luzerne déshydratée en Chine suspend son projet en raison de réactions négatives dans le quartier chinois à Montréal.