Vietnam

Cuba entregará tierra a Vietnam para producir arroz
- Granma
- 08 January 2025
Por primera vez se realiza un proceso de entrega de tierras cubanas (5.000 hectáreas) a una empresa extranjera, para que se encargue de su explotación.
Laos: Agriculture firm HAGL doubles durian farming area in 2 years
- VN Express
- 19 December 2024
HAGL, a major Vietnamese agriculture firm, has doubled its durian farming area to 2,000 hectares and expanded its banana farming area by 40% to 7,000 hectares in the past two years.
Fruits of spoil: Laos’ forests disappearing as plantations flourish
- Mekong Eye
- 16 December 2024
The country’s improved railway connectivity facilitates fruit exports to China but has also sparked a boom in foreign-owned banana and durian farms, leading to deforestation.
Foreign investors set sights on Việt Nam's food processing sector
- Viet Nam News
- 03 December 2024
Japan's Sojitz is collaborating with Vinamilk and Vilico to invest in a 10,000 cattle farm and beef processing and distribution facilities.
Vietnamese Government leader meets with leaders of Saudi Arabia’s major firms
- VOV
- 30 October 2024
SALIC aspires to expand co-operation and investment in the Vietnamese market, especially in the production, processing and export of rice, along with animal feed, poultry, livestock and aquaculture.
Hi-tech banana farming bears fruit in rural district of Binh Duong
- VOV
- 22 September 2024
Vietnam Rubber Group plans to invest in large-scale and high-value agriculture until the end of 2030, covering an area of 36,227ha, including 5,000ha dedicated to banana cultivation.
Zambia: Luapula chiefs join in rejecting proposed $72 billion Vietnamese investment project
- Zambia Monitor
- 28 June 2024
The Luapula Council of Chiefs has joined other stakeholders in rejecting the proposed US$72 billion Vietnamese rice investment project spearheaded by VietZam Development Corporation Limited that is said to involve 6 million hectares of land.
Vietnamese firm mulls multimillion-dollar agri-investment in Cambodia
- Khmer Times
- 25 April 2024
The Vietnamese conglomerate’s regional expansion will include 11,600 hectares dedicated to intensive banana production across the four new farms, two of which will be in Cambodia.
HAGL raises $51mln from private placement
- VNN
- 22 April 2024
With the new injection of funds, HAGL intends to expand its total plantation area to 25,000 hectares for bananas, durian and other economically valuable crops across Việt Nam, Laos and Cambodia.
Eni and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam to cooperate in the areas of energy transition
- Eni
- 23 May 2023
The parties will explore opportunities to valorize residues from agro-industrial value chains to produce vegetable oils, which are not in competition with the food chain, for Eni’s biorefineries.
In Vietnam, the call for factory farm divestment grows louder
- Sentient Media
- 29 Mar 2022
A massive pig breeding and farming operation in Vietnam is set to expand, aided by $26 million in funding recently granted by the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
The concession model in Southeast Asia: Coming full circle?
- WRM
- 23 Mar 2022
Colonial and anti-colonial movements’ have deeply shaped the patterns and impacts of concessions in Southeast Asia. In some cases, communities have experienced dispossession through land grabs dressed as concessions. In others, concessions are part of a re-concentration of land holding.