• Glencore sells agri stake to Canadian fund for $625 million
    • Bloomberg
    • 09 June 2016

    Glencore Plc agreed to sell just-under a 10 percent stake in its agriculture unit to Canada’s British Columbia Investment Management Corp. for $624.9 million in cash as it continues to cut debt.

  • Glencore in talks to sell stake in agri business to CPPIB - WSJ
    • Reuters
    • 05 April 2016

    The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is in advanced talks to buy a stake in Miner and commodity trader Glencore Plc's agricultural business, which has farming operations covering 270,000ha in Argentina, Australia, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Ukraine.

  • Glencore in talks to sell farms in Australia
    • Glencore
    • 06 October 2015

    Debt-burdened Glencore has entered early discussions with a number of sovereign wealth funds and commodities traders as it moves to offload the more than 30,000ha of cropping land across NSW, Victoria and South Australia.

  • Corporate investors send Australia’s land prices up

    • Western Producer
    • 23 Mar 2012

    Corporate control of Australia’s farmland is beginning to ruffle feathers among some of the country’s primary producers.


  • Swiss giant Glencore may bid for KS Oils
    • Times of India
    • 13 September 2011

    The world's largest commodities trader Glencore International AG is evaluating a bid for KS Oils, a leading Indian edible oil firm that has recently been acquiring farmland in Indonesia

  • Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund eyes farm deals with Glencore
    • Interactive Investor
    • 07 June 2011

    The focus of Aabar on farming investments comes as Gulf nations, including Abu Dhabi, plan billions of dollars of investments in global food supply and infrastructure as they guard against price shocks and supply shortages in core resources.

  • Glencore: Profiteering from hunger and chaos
    • Al Jazeera
    • 09 May 2011

    The world's largest commodities trader and major farmland owner is issuing a stock sale, and critics say the firm causes spikes in food prices.

  • Glencore reveals secrets of success in agriculture
    • Agrimoney
    • 05 May 2011

    Glencore has an 8.7% share of the "addressable" global grain trade and farming operations covering 270,000ha in Argentina, Australia, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Ukraine.

  • Glencore bond an 'opportunity', Chinese group says
    • Agrimoney
    • 24 December 2009

    Glencore's agricultural interests include 300,000 hectares of land in Australia, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, Russia and Ukraine.

  • Glencore, China's CIC in cooperation pact
    • Reuters
    • 17 September 2009

    China's $200 billion sovereign wealth fund has added privately-held commodities trader Glencore International AG, which also controls around 300,000 ha of farmland, to its roster of approved investment partners as it deepens its access to global raw material markets, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters

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