Proterra Investment Partners is selling its Corinella Group farm portfolio
    Global investment company Proterra Investment Partners is divesting its Australian farm portfolio – the Corinella Group Pty Ltd consisting of 49 farms across southeastern Australia with expectations of fetching A$350 million.
    • GAI
    • 03 August 2021
    Ninety per cent of Aussies oppose foreign farm sales
    A new poll by the Lowy Institute found 87 per cent of respondents opposed allowing foreign companies to buy Australian agricultural land — six percentage points higher than a similar survey four years ago.
    • New Daily
    • 22 June 2016
    Australia’s largest landholder agrees to sell to Chinese-led consortium
    Dakang Australia and Australian Rural Capital say they want to transform S Kidman and Co into a global beef brand
    • Guardian
    • 19 April 2016
    Australia: Canada cracks almond deal
    The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board has bought Macquarie Group's owned and operated almond properties in the Sunraysia district of north-west Victoria for more than $115 million.
    • Financial Review
    • 10 August 2015
    Interview — Violent corporate land grabbing in Papua New Guinea
    Violent corporate land grabbing is driven by logging corporations operating with little oversight in some of the world’s largest rainforests, all with the direct complicity of many politicians.
    • Free City Radio
    • 01 December 2013
    Food needs drive Chinese overseas
    If there was any doubt that China is desperate for agricultural assets, it has been dispelled by the news that China Investment Corp with its $US190 billion war chest is on the hunt all the way down to chilly Tasmania in search of fresh milk.
    • AFR
    • 25 September 2012
    PNG land grab update
    It is expected that the final report of the Commission of Inquiry into Special Agricultural and Business Leases (SABLs) will shortly be tabled in Papua New Guinea’s national parliament, but no one yet knows what it will recommend, let alone whether Peter O’Neill’s new government will act on those recommendations.
    • Development Policy
    • 22 August 2012
    Tighter rules sought on land purchases
    Australia is "asleep at the wheel" when it comes to foreign companies buying important agricultural land and greater scrutiny is needed, farmers say.
    • AAP
    • 12 April 2011
    Massive land grab in PNG says academic
    Colin Filer says 5 million hectares of customary land has passed into the hands of national and foreign corporations in Papua New Guinea using a legal mechanism called the 'lease-lease-back scheme'.
    • ABC
    • 08 April 2011
    Food security concerns lead to review of land ownership in Australia
    Parliament is calling on the Productivity Commission to review the recent surge in foreign investment in farming, focusing on its effects on the economy and food security.
    • Sydney Morning Herald
    • 24 Mar 2011
    Proposed agricultural deal carries risk for Cambodia's rural poor
    BKK Partners, an Australian financial advisory firm, has a client that wants to buy 100,000 ha of Cambodian farmland. Human rights workers and politicians are concerned.
    • VoA
    • 18 February 2010
    UBS launches farmland investment service
    UBS Global Asset Management has established an Australia and New Zealand farmland investment advisory service to meet the growing institutional demand for assets, particularly from Asia.
    • Financial Standard
    • 10 June 2014
    Indonesian beef plan sparks foreign investment debate
    A move by the Indonesian government to buy one million hectares of land for beef production in Australia for its own local market has reignited the foreign ownership debate.
    • ABC
    • 12 September 2013
    Mormon Church buys three-farm North Star Aggregation
    The Utah-based Mormon Church has added a large-scale dryland cropping operation in the renowned Golden Triangle region of northern New South Wales to its growing Australian agricultural portfolio.
    • Grain Central
    • 17 Mar 2025
    Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund buys shares of Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Co.
    Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition is a Nasdaq-listed SPAQ that recently acquired 200,000 ha of farmland in Australia through a business combination with Australian Food & Agriculture Company Limited.
    • MarketBeat
    • 30 November 2024
    Australia: Chinese billionaire to sell Tassie dairies after Fonterra deal sours
    Chinese billionaire Xianfeng Lu has put one of the country’s biggest dairy operations, the nearly 200-year-old Woolnorth farming aggregation in Tasmania, up for sale after losing a big milk supply contract with dairy giant Fonterra earlier this year.
    • AFR
    • 29 April 2024
    AustAg's billionaire investor Joe Lewis pleads guilty in US to insider trading
    Joe Lewis, the main shareholder of Australian Agriculture, a company that owns about 1 per cent of the Australia’s land mass, has pleaded guilty in a US court to insider trading.
    • IN Queensland
    • 29 January 2024
    Green colonialism 2.0: Tree plantations and carbon offsets in Africa
    New report by the Oakland Institute examines the African Forestry Impact Platform bankrolled by European development finance institutions, Japanese oil interests, and an Australian investment firm.
    • Oakland Institute
    • 30 August 2023
    Mitolo sells stake to Canadian pension fund
    Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has acquired a majority stake in Mitolo Family Farms-- Australia’s largest potato producer and owner of one of the country's largest horticultural land aggregations.
    • Food & Drink
    • 30 Mar 2023
    Koala fund chews into demand for developer offsets
    Investment platform iPartners is pushing into the agricultural sector, launching a $20 million fund to acquire Australian farmland for protected koala habitat to generate returns through its use as a biodiversity offset.
    • AFR
    • 15 August 2021
    Farmers buy back Riverina holding from US fund
    American pension fund giant TIAA sold its Southern Riverina farming aggregation between Wagga Wagga and Albury in southern NSW to local Australian farmers after more than a decade of ownership.
    • AFR
    • 01 November 2020
    US investor snaps up almond orchard for $98m
    Rural Funds Management has announced the sale of its Mooral almond orchard to Boston-based Hancock Agricultural Investment Group
    • Farm Weekly
    • 06 September 2020
    Offshore investors swoop on almond orchards
    Funds managed by North American farmland and timber giant Hancock Natural Resource Group are poised to snap up two almond properties worth around $12 million in the NSW Riverina and South Australia’s Riverland.
    • AFR
    • 01 June 2020
    Shanghai's Pengxin diverted $567 million to Brazil after snub on Kidman sale
    Shanghai-based conglomerate Pengxin redirected the $US400 million it was prepared to pay for Australia's largest private land holding, S. Kidman & Co, into investments in Brazil after it was snubbed by then treasurer Scott Morrison in 2016.
    • AFR
    • 08 October 2018
    AgCAP completes sale of livestock, cropping portfolio
    AgCAP has completed the sale of its initial Sustainable Agriculture Fund (SAF) portfolio, which included the sale to institutional and private equity investors of SAF’s three cropping aggregations in Australia.
    • Grain Central
    • 30 January 2018
    Hewitt Cattle Australia secure stake in Arcadian Organic
    The deal will also see the company, backed by Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board, acquire two certified organic properties owned by Arcadian covering over 30,000 ha.
    • NQR
    • 31 October 2017
    Chinese livestock firm taps up Southeast Asia
    A leading Chinese livestock and meat processing firm wants to tap supply of cattle from south-east Asia, with a cattle quarantine and slaughtering hub planned for the city of Ruili, on the border with Myanmar.
    • Global meat news
    • 14 August 2017
    Hassad Australia sells Clover Downs Station for $27M
    Hassad Australia, a $469 million farming company and wholly owned subsidiary of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has sold the Clover Downs Station located in Queensland, Australia, to farmer Bill Zell for $27 million.
    • GAI
    • 24 July 2017
    TIAA partners give super funds $100b agricultural insight
    The $US866 billion financial services giant TIAA expects there will be at least $US100 billion invested in timberland operations and agriculture across the world in the next 10 to 20 years
    • AFR
    • 09 Mar 2016
    Mitchell to sell 49pc of cattle stake
    Mitchell's Yougawalla Pastoral Company the latest Australian cattle station business to be put up for sale. Foreign corporations have spent some A$63.5 million buying into the sector in the past month.
    • AFR
    • 16 Mar 2015
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