China

The great land rush
- Financial Times
- 01 Mar 2016
FT correspondents report on the global race for land from Ethiopia, Myanmar and Indonesia.
Australia deputy PM urges local investment in agriculture to meet strong Asia demand
- Reuters
- 01 Mar 2016
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.
Conflict, companies stoke land grabs in Myanmar’s Kachin State
- Khmer Times
- 29 February 2016
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.
Jack Ma, le Bill Gates chinois investit en Bordelais
- Sud Ouest
- 25 February 2016
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.
Concerns for milk supply after our Van Diemen’s Land Company sold to China business interests
- Herald Sun
- 23 February 2016
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.
Chinese investor is first under new Australian tax rules
- Reuters
- 23 February 2016
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.
Chinese firm to build rice mill, research institute in Akwa Ibom
- The Nation
- 19 February 2016
Heilongjiang Hegang Sanjiang Plain Rice Group is embarking on a pilot production on 500 hectares of farmland, thereafter expanding to 10,000 hectares.
Scholars, activists & farmers join in Harare to address rural social justice
- AIAS
- 18 February 2016
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.
Chang Sun’s Black Soil postpones raising $1b agri-business fund
- Deal Street Asia
- 09 February 2016
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.
Lindsay Fox in bid for Kidman cattle empire
- The Australian
- 06 February 2016
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.
L'offensive chinoise sur la terre berrichonne
- Nouvelle République
- 04 February 2016
1.500 hectares auraient déjà été acquis par une société de Hong Kong dans l'Indre
L’achat de terres par des Chinois suspendu
- Journal de Montréal
- 03 February 2016
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.