Nordic Aqua Partners has increased planned production at its land-based salmon farming facility in China to 20,000 tonnes.
- Fishfarming Expert
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23 August 2021
Farmland grabs by US companies and pension funds are being ignored as appropriators prioritise keeping Chinese interests in check, critics say
An Australian cattle farm was used by Chinese-owned company United World Enterprises to lure retirees into investing up to $46 million for fake agritourism and aged-care village schemes.
Villagers in Kilwa were encouraged to give up their lands for an investment in large-scale farms to produce cassava for export, but as time passed on, they realised the much touted investor was but a ghost.
Bipartisan pressure is building to stop foreign nationals from purchasing American farm operations and receiving taxpayer subsidies.
Dairy giant Fonterra has sold two joint venture farms in China to Singapore-based AustAsia Investment Holdings for US$115.5m.
In Japan, concerns are growing that emerging and developing countries, as sources of supply for food and natural resources, will fall under China's sway.
La Chine semble avoir ralenti dans sa course au foncier en France.
- Ouest France
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08 July 2021
Singapore-based Japfa, through its 75 per cent-owned subsidiary AustAsia Investment Holdings, has agreed to buy two dairy farms in Shandong, China.
- Straits Times
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30 June 2021
China is one of the world's largest consumers of agricultural commodities such as soy and palm oil that drive deforestation globally. But it isn’t just Chinese consumption of these commodities that is helping fuel forest destruction. Global Witness new analysis sheds a spotlight on the often-overlooked role of Chinese banks as some of the biggest global financiers of deforestation.
- Global Witness
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07 June 2021
Illnesses and deaths have long been reported among workers at foreign-owned banana farms in Laos.
La Sierra Leone a accepté de vendre 100 ha de plage immaculée et de forêt tropicale à la Chine dans le cadre d’un accord de 55 millions de dollars qui verrait un port de pêche industriel construit sur le site.