Farmers from different communities in the Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State took to the streets in protest against the alleged decision of the state government to take over their farmlands for leasing to a Chinese company.
An Australian management fund has nabbed another slice of historic Tasmanian farmland from billionaire Chinese businessman Xianfeng Lu and his troubled dairy company.
Haishan Group, a private Beijing-based construction firm with farming operations in Angola, has announced its involvement in the construction of a 300-hectare real estate and fishery industrial park featuring aquaculture, seafood processing, and feed production facilities.
- Seafood Source
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18 Mar 2024
Purchase of Australia's largest fruit grower by Driscoll's and US and Canadian private equity and pension funds includes six blueberry farms in Morocco and four berry farms in China.
A 20% year-over-year increase of agricultural exports from Laos in 2023 was largely on the back of Chinese plantations, according to trade officials, meaning that the country will reap few of the profits.
America is seeing more and more of its most fertile land snapped up by China and other foreign buyers, yet problems with how the US tracks such data means it’s difficult to know just how much.
- https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/china-is-buying-up-us-farmland-but-just-how-much-isn-t-clear-1.2023880
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18 January 2024
The site of the dispute is part of a 42,420 hectares economic land concession that was granted to the Chinese company Hengfu Group Sugar Industry in 2011.
- Camboja News
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17 January 2024
In October 2023, Arkansas became the first US state to enforce foreign farmland ownership laws when it ordered Syngenta to sell 160 acres of farmland.
- Successful Farming
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10 January 2024
Pakistan is offering land with preferential policies, especially in areas prone to floods, as part of their efforts to support the chili industry and mitigate the impact of climate change
- Gwadar Pro
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05 January 2024
Local residents who were evicted from their land for a 42,000 hectare sugar cane plantation are all the more bitter now that the unprofitable and poorly financed agricultural project has collapsed.
- Equal Times
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11 December 2023
La concession économique de 42.000 hectares a été accordée en 2011, et pour une durée de 70 ans, à cinq entreprises chinoises appartenant toutes au même conglomérat, le Hengfu Group Sugar Industry. Douze ans plus tard, les souvenirs malheureux des évictions sont plus amers que jamais pour les habitants de Preah Vihear : pas rentable et mal financé, le projet agricole a périclité.
- Equal Times
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11 December 2023
PLAAS continues its discussion with Yan Hariong, exploring China’s ‘Going Out Policy' and its intricate linkages with other developing countries, especially in Africa