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'More Indian cos using S'pore springboard for global ventures'
- PTI
- 27 May 2010
An increasing number of Indian companies are expected to use Singapore as a springboard for their global operations, including overseas farmland investments
A better land grab for China?
- Change.org
- 27 May 2010
Better food and know-how for China, more food for Singapore: if the deal actually comes to pass, it strikes me as a fairly solid bargain, writes Te-Ping Chen.
Singapore firms to invest in $16 bln China farm project
- Reuters
- 21 May 2010
Singapore plans to help develop a $16 billion agricultural project in northeastern China as the city-state aims to boost its food security.
New food source for Singapore
- Straits Times
- 21 May 2010
Singapore could gain access to a major new source of meat, fruit and vegetables if a massive new farming project in north-eastern China takes off
Singapore boosts local farming for food security
- AFP
- 25 April 2010
Government of Singapore has set up a fund to support feasibility studies on investments in overseas food zones, overseas contract farming and other non-traditional sources of food security for the city-state.
No conversion of virgin forest to food estate in Merauke: Govt
- Jakarta Post
- 09 February 2010
Foreign investors from China, Korea and Singapore have expressed their readiness to invest in the projects to cultivate including paddy to supply for domestic demand.
Liberia: GOL, Golden Veroleum in US$1.6bn negotiation
- Liberian Observer
- 12 January 2010
Indonesian global palm oil giant, Golden Agri-Veroleum will invest more than US$1.6 billion dollars on more than 240,000 hectares of oil palm to boost the country’s oil palm sector.
Food Fund For Enhancing Singapore’s Food Supply Resilience Open For Application
- AVA
- 10 December 2009
In the area of food diversification, AVA will co-fund feasibility studies on investments in overseas food zones, overseas contract farming and sourcing of rice, chicken, pork, fish, eggs and leafy vegetables from non-traditional sources or existing sources that are not major exporters to Singapore
Up for grabs: Deforestation and exploitation in Papua’s plantations boom
- EIA
- 11 November 2009
The planned expansion of plantations in the Papuan provinces of Indonesia should be immediately suspended and reviewed amid concerns over massive deforestation and widespread exploitation of local communities, environmentalists warned today.
Vita Grain says priority is to support stock-piling of rice in Singapore
- Business Times
- 06 October 2009
Vita Grain Group, which is backed by US $60 million of funding, owns more than 20 different strains of hybrid rice seeds. Vita Grain is looking for funding to expand its seed production beyond Africa to Asia, the US and South America. The company is also setting up a rice mill in Mauritius and is in talks with partners in Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique to develop rice production units.
CIC to buy Noble stake
- Reuters
- 22 September 2009
China's sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corp, has bought a 14.5 per cent stake in grain trading and production firm Noble Group for US$850 million.
Timbercorp sells almond assets for $128m to Olam
- The Age
- 18 September 2009
The Australian almond plantations of agribusiness group Timbercorp have been sold to Singapore-based multinational food giant Olam International for $128 million.

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