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Phnom Penh Post24 Jun 10New private equity fund targets Cambodia’s still-developing agriculture sector
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Financial Times13 Jun 10TADCO subsidiary has already arranged leases in Cambodia, Vietnam, Pakistan and the Philippines for export production of aromatic and long grain basmati rice.
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Gulf Times01 Jun 10Hassad Food Company intends to invest $500mn to $700mn this year for projects across the world as part of its mission to ensure food security for Qatar, chairman and managing director Nasser bin Mohamed Mubarak al-Fuhaid al-Hajri has said.
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PTI27 May 10An increasing number of Indian companies are expected to use Singapore as a springboard for their global operations, including overseas farmland investments
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ABC25 May 10"People lose their access to land simply so that rich and powerful Cambodians and foreign investors can make profit from cash crops for export."
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Emirates Business 24/724 May 10The UAE has embarked on an overseas investment spree to ensure domestic food security in a country with miniscule arable area -- a spree that will only grow
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Financial Times18 Apr 10FIDP has launched a Cambodia and Laos fund, “an extended China play” that will focus largely on agriculture, seeking to benefit from China’s desire for food security.
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IPS14 Apr 10The Cambodian government’s moves to allocate vast tracts of land to foreign and local companies are often done without consulting local villagers.
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Reuters19 Mar 10In a move to attract foreign investment, Cambodia has awarded big concessions to companies, mainly from China, Vietnam and South Korea, to run mines, power plants and farms, leading to a rise in forced evictions by state officials profiting on the sale and lease of farmland for use by foreign and local companies.
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VoA18 Feb 10BKK 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.
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Financial Times14 Feb 10Leopard Capital's second Cambodian fund is expected to continue investment in agriculture, as well as potentially including investment in Laos.
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GTZ12 Feb 10On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the GTZ have published a new study on FDI in land in developing countries.
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dap-news.com04 Feb 10The high potential in rice investment has intrigued not only China, which is Cambodia's biggest donor, but other donors as well, such as Kuwait, Korea and Japan—given the country’s agricultural sector is the nation’s backbone economy.
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DPA01 Feb 10Human rights workers said risks to the rural poor over such deals are significant because they are regularly evicted to make way for foreign investors.
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Bangkok Post27 Jan 10Khon Kaen Sugar Industry Plc aims to invest about 15 billion baht over the next five years to double its sugarcane output in Thailand and continuously expand its presence in Cambodia and Laos.
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The Phnom Penh Post21 Jan 10Peter Costello, the former treasurer of Australia, revealed Wednesday he was working with an investment fund that planned to inject US$600 million into Cambodia’s agricultural sector. The projects will cover a vast area, about 100,000 hectares.
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AGTER19 Jan 10Accaparement des terres - cas du Cambodge - par AGTER
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Korea Times04 Dec 09That Korea is no longer "importing" this food that is being grown overseas implies that this land is effectively Korean. This amounts to agricultural imperialism.
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Joong Ang Daily16 Nov 09Local provincial governments are working hard to develop farmland in other countries -- Russia, Cambodia, Mongolia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Paraguay, Uruguay -- because it’s cheaper than relying on imports
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The National25 Oct 09UAE foreign investment in food production have so far focused on leasing Pakistan and Sudan’s agricultural land, with new prospects in Cambodian rice, Canadian wheat and Australian beef. Alongside the strategic deals at the national level, private investment has followed which should open new channels of trade, for example, Al Qudra Holding has plans to grow grain and vegetables in Vietnam and Croatia as well as Pakistan.