China's appetite for Australian farmland showing no signs of being sated. Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) annual report confirmed China has become Australia's biggest source of approved foreign investment after a $12.4 billion splurge.
Plans of Russia’s Far Eastern Zabaikalsky region to allow Chinese firms to rent sizeable plots of land has drawn vocal protests in Russia, including a series of online petitions demanding to annul the would-be-deal.
Australia tightened rules on Monday requiring overseas investors to declare holdings of agricultural land in order to strengthen oversight, amid concerns that Australia is losing control of its own food security.
A mysterious new partnership between Indonesia's spy agency and Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) to boost foreign investment has civil society wary of deepening agrarian conflict in the post-authoritarian country.
PNG's Minister for Agriculture says "the best way to do agriculture in Papua New Guinea is large-scale, mechanized" as small scale agriculture is "no longer feasible."
Hong Kong-listed Fosun International, a conglomerate with investments in businesses ranging from holiday resort chain Club Med to upmarket circus show Cirque de Soleil, is to buy 9% of German farm-operator KTG Agrar.
Peter Sondakh, the Rajawali Group chairman and chief executive officer, has set his sight on making his company a global giant in the palm oil business and sees PNG as the game changer for the industry.
The collaboration of the two companies is part of the overall development of Amatheon’s already 40 000 hectares titled farm block.
The China-based company PT Thian Yuan Agriculture Technology Trading has submitted an application to operate a cassava plantation in Ketapang, West Kalimantan.
State-controlled Felda Global Ventures Bhd (FGV)said it needs more land bank and has been looking outside Malaysia for some time to boost its portfolio, including Africa, Myanmar and Indonesia.
a villager from Cambodia's Tbong Khmum province accused of injuring a worker and his translator of Chinese investor’s Hameniven Investment in a long running dispute over 600 hectares of farm land.
This joint IISD, World Bank and UNCTAD discussion paper seeks to show how investment contracts can be set up to promote sustainable development
