Ingleby Company in New Zealand for the long haul
    Since 1999, The Ingleby Company has bought about 17 farms. The company runs just under 20,000ha of land with 130,000 stock units, most of which are sheep and cattle.
    • Country Wide
    • 04 January 2008
    Indian firms scout for farms overseas
    The Solvent Extraction Association, currently visiting South America, will come up with a techno-feasibility report on carrying out contract farming by Indian companies either in Argentina, Paraguay or Uruguay.
    • The Hindu Business Line
    • 02 December 2007
    China's long march to Africa
    “There’s no harm in allowing [Chinese] farmers to leave the country to become farm owners [in Africa],” the head of China’s Export-Import Bank, Li Ruogu, says.
    • BBC
    • 29 November 2007
    Libya Eyes Cultivating Wheat in Ukraine
    Libya plans to invest in the production of wheat in Ukraine on a surface of 100.000 hectares, in order to provide for the totality of its requirements
    • Alarab Online
    • 21 November 2007
    Japan Mitsui affiliate buys Brazil farmland
    Brazilian grain broker Multigrain SA has bought 100,000 hectares of farmland and related operations in Brazil to secure a stable supply of soybeans and other farm produce, Japan's Mitsui & Co Ltd, a part owner of holding company Multigrain AG, said on Tuesday.
    • Reuters
    • 13 November 2007
    Western Australia: Big money to buy up the family farm
    Agricultural land trusts and corporate players may take a bigger chunk of Australia's arable land with global market dynamics making rural land purchases more attractive investments.
    • YouTube
    • 25 October 2007
    Seedlings of evil growing in Myanmar
    A military-driven Chinese hybrid rice-for-opium crop-substitution program in the northern part of Myanmar's Shan state has resulted in four consecutive years of poor harvests and driven many ethnic-minority farmers into heavy debt or out of rice farming altogether.
    • Asia Times
    • 23 August 2007
    China, Mozambique: old friends, new business
    In 2006, Beijing and Maputo signed a memorandum of understanding concerning the creation of a massive agricultural project in the Zambezi river valley area.
    • ISN Security Watch
    • 13 August 2007
    Investissements Emiratis au Maroc : De gros contrats dès juillet prochain
    Al Qudra a fondé la société Ikhlas spécialisée dans la production et la distribution de l’huile d’olive et il vient de prendre une option dans la création d’une société mixte dans le secteur des pêches maritimes
    • Gazette du Maroc
    • 25 June 2007
    Convention sur les conditions de cession et de bail des terres entre le Mali et China Light Industrial Corporation (2007)
    Contrat d'octroi de 20,000 ha entre le Mali et une société Chinoise pour la production de canne à sucre.
    • Mouvement des sans voix
    • 30 April 2007
    Bail emphytéotique Mali-UEMOA deux parcelles de l’Office du Niger 2007
    Décret n°07-141/P-RM portant autorisation d’attribution sous forme de bail emphytéotique à l’Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA) de deux parcelles de terrain dans la zone de l’Office du niger
    • JO Mali
    • 23 April 2007
    To Fortify China, Soybean Harvest Grows in Brazil
    China’s global scramble for natural resources is leading to a transformation of agricultural trading around the world.
    • New York Times
    • 06 April 2007

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