China

Investasi pertanian masih stagnan
- Bisnis Indonesia
- 22 August 2011
Pengusaha China jajaki tanaman ubi jalar di Lampung
China wants to buy soy directly from Brazil's farmers
- Bernama
- 16 August 2011
China, the second-largest buyer of soy in the world wants an end to intermediation by U.S multinational companies working in the sector and plans to invest purchasing directly from farmers in Mato Grosso and another five states in Brazil.
Rich-lister leads bid to keep farms from Chinese
- NZ Herald
- 16 August 2011
One of New Zealand's richest men has emerged as a white knight investor with a $105 million bid for big dairy farms that could otherwise be sold to China.
Concern about Chinese looking for investment opportunity in WA grain belt
- ABC
- 16 August 2011
The Western Australian Farmers Federation has concerns that Chinese companies are considering buying farms (80,000 ha) across WA's Great Southern and South West.
Jamaica sells 3 sugar estates to Chinese firm
- AP
- 15 August 2011
Under the agreement, China's Complant International Sugar Industry Co. Ltd. will be leased roughly 18,000 hectares of cane fields for the next 49 years.
Chinese company push for Western Australia farmland
- Farm Weekly
- 12 August 2011
A number of growers in the Great Southern have been approached by a prominent Chinese company with offers to buy farms.
China ready to fight for its pound of flesh
- NZ Herald
- 10 August 2011
Two issues are bound to feature in New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser's talks in Beijing next week: New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra’s market power in the China domestic market and Chinese investment intentions within New Zealand.
A land-grabber’s loophole
- COHA
- 08 August 2011
Restrictive legislation on the selling of land will continue to be null and void so long as foreigners can rent farm land -- the ‘leasing loophole’.
Chinese say farmland investments not to be feared
- 3 News
- 04 August 2011
The Chinese Embassy in Wellington wheeled out a government spokesman today in a rare move, to tell New Zealanders they have nothing to fear from Chinese farmland investments.
Plan for China to invest in agricultural business rather than buy the farm
- The Australian
- 03 August 2011
Chinese companies could be encouraged to invest in Australian agricultural businesses instead of buying up farms under a new foreign investment model based on the practice in the mining sector.
Famine : Pékin nie toute responsabilité
- Europe1/AFP
- 29 July 2011
Pékin a catégoriquement démenti vendredi avoir acheté des terres en Afrique, rejetant comme "infondées" les déclarations d'un responsable allemand selon lequel ces acquisitions présumées aggraveraient la famine qui frappe actuellement l'Ethiopie.
China rejects claims of Africa land buy-ups
- SAPA
- 29 July 2011
China rejected claims by a German official that it has been buying up land in the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa, saying the allegations are "completely unfounded" and have "ulterior motives".