Around 50 villagers representing 90 families from Lor Peang village in Kampong Chhnang province presented petitions to the U.S. and European Union embassies among others, accusing KDC International—a company run by Chea Keng, wife of Cambodia’s Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem—of encroaching on their land.
Le ministre de l’Agriculture est persuadé que Madagascar pourrait consolider ses acquis, grâce à l’apport des Chinois, pour mettre en oeuvre son programme « Grenier de l’Océan Indien »
Ian Scoones summarises some of the discussion at the PLAAS Cape Town conference on the engagement of Brazil, China and South Africa in patterns of agrarian change.
The Government of The Gambia and Zoeve Seed Company sign MOU on a farming project that will commence with 1000 hectares for rice production.
A Chinese company developing farm land in the Ord River area has warned it will not proceed with the project under a raft of conditions set out by Australia's environmental watchdog.
As China becomes a large importer, its food security strategy calls for gaining control over imports from their source.
Leading Chinese "farm to table" agribusiness, with livestock and plantation operations in China, retains New York investment firm
Kuban Agricultural Holding is in talks to sell a stake with a number of Asian funds and investment companies, including Chinese firm CIC, which is interested in Basic Element's livestock division.
Most of China's agribusinesses are locally owned, but foreign investors are seeding the market. In rural Anhui province, Cargill recently opened an operation named Site 82 that breeds, slaughters and processes 65 million chickens a year.
Chinese companies are planning to invest in maize and tobacco farming in the Zambezi region of Namibia where the environment is very good and the land is fertile. The companies are now doing the preparatory work.
Un tiers des acheteurs des propriétés viticoles du Bordelais, en France, sont des investisseurs chinois
Ethiopian Sugar Corp. is tapping loans from Development Bank of China to build six sugar-processing factories and plant 150,000 hectares of sugar cane in the region bordering Kenya. This may exacerbate conflict in the ethnically diverse region.
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