-
Business Day30 Aug 10Fonterra says it is having a "very close look" at relaunching a processing business in China as it faces a rapidly growing competitive threat from Chinese manufacturing startups with their own large-scale dairy farms.
-
Reuters24 Aug 10Brazil's essential role as a provider of food for the world's expanding population is at risk if the government makes good on threats to curtail foreign investment in farmland.
-
Estado de S. Paulo22 Aug 10Benjamin Steinbruch, dono da CSN e presidente da Fiesp, diz que chineses podem 'tirar os competidores do jogo' e defende restrições à compra de terras e reservas minerais
-
China Daily12 Aug 10Joint-venture farms that have China's financial and technical support are the future of China-Africa agriculture cooperation says China State Farms Agribusiness Corporation manager.
-
PTI11 Aug 10ASSOCHAM, India's apex industry body, has sent a proposal to the external affairs ministry offering to act as facilitator to help Indian farmers get farmland in Africa.
-
Reuters11 Aug 10Vinda virtualmente do nada, a China disparou para a posição de maior investidor estrangeiro direto no Brasil este ano, com aquisições que variam de minas de ferro a vastas terras para plantio, bem como linhas de transmissão de energia.
-
Reuters10 Aug 10From virtually nowhere, China has rocketed to become the biggest foreign direct investor in Brazil this year with purchases ranging from iron ore mines to vast tracts of farmland and the electricity grid.
-
Urgente 2403 Aug 10Los 'negocios' cambian de sentido cuando la inversión es subordinada a razones estratégicas de un Estado extranjero.
-
O Estado de SP03 Aug 10"Os chineses compraram a África e estão tentando comprar o Brasil", disse o professor Delfim Netto em entrevista ao Estado de domingo. Pode haver algum exagero de linguagem, mas a preocupação é justificável.
-
Dow Jones02 Aug 10Australia's opposition leader Tony Abbott said his Liberal-National coalition of center-right parties could revise the country's foreign investment laws if it wins power in the Aug. 21 general election.
-
Radio Australia27 Jul 10New Zealand's Green Party has drafted a bill seeking to stop overseas buyers snapping up large tracts of NZ land. Australian farmers also fear they may have trouble coping with future food and water demands if foreign interests snap up too many of the nation's agricultural resources.
-
Gleaner14 Jul 10The Chinese firm COMPLANT will purchase the Jamaican government's remaining sugar assets and lease 18,000 ha of the island's cane land for 50-75 years.
-
Islands Business12 Jul 10"We have Indonesians and Malaysians coming in and saying we want 100,000 hectares to make PNG a rice producing country," says PNG’s Deputy Prime Minister Sir Puka Temu
-
NZ Herald10 Jul 10At least 24 countries have been given approval to invest in New Zealand's agricultural sector, covering 154,855ha and a wide range of sectors from sheep farming to viticulture
-
Reuters09 Jul 10A South African farmers group said on Friday it had received fresh offers from African states, including Sudan and Mozambique, to invest in agriculture to grow export crops and some of the deals will be concluded soon.
-
Otago Daily Times07 Jul 10Calls for an overhaul of rules governing foreign ownership of farm land increased in New Zealand yesterday, coinciding with the Chinese-backed company lodging an application to buy 16 North Island dairy farms with the Overseas Investment Office.
-
NZPA06 Jul 10Hong Kong-based Natural Dairy says it has relodged its application with the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) to buy the Crafar portfolio of farms, and expects approval in the next few months.
-
Radio New Zealand06 Jul 10Prime Minister John Key is endorsing Landcorp's bid for the 16 Crafar family farms that are in receivership.
-
Business Daily05 Jul 10Vietnamese and Chinese investors will cultivate 10,000 acres and 15,000 acres of land for rice and cassava in Edo State, Nigeria, respectively.
-
Dominion Post03 Jul 10Prime Minister John Key does not believe the sale of "very large tracts of land" to foreign investors would be in the long-term interests of New Zealand.