Australia

Thai food giant investing big in Australia
- ABC
- 18 April 2012
CP Group has opened an office in Melbourne to start buying red meat and grains and set up a salmon farm in Australia.
Macquarie goes grain farming
- Australian Financial Review
- 02 April 2012
Macquarie Group's new farmland fund, which is targeting farms in Australia and Brazil, has purchased its first two properties in Australia worth a total of almost $40 million.
Caution urged on foreign investment
- Farm Weekly
- 02 April 2012
With foreign investment in agriculture already occurring in Australia, many within the agricultural industry believe we need to be wary.
Australian executives favor trade barriers for food
- Bloomberg
- 27 Mar 2012
Almost half of Australian executives surveyed by an international law firm favor higher trade barriers to protect the nation’s food supply and see foreign investment in agriculture and farmland as a threat.
Corporate investors send Australia’s land prices up 
- Western Producer
- 23 Mar 2012
Corporate control of Australia’s farmland is beginning to ruffle feathers among some of the country’s primary producers. 
Chinese group expresses interest in WA milk
- Farm Weekly
- 23 Mar 2012
Hangzhou Wahaha Group Co, China's biggest beverage producer, hopes to invest about $220 million in dairy farms in Western Australia in order to expand its import channels for milk.
Heffernan slams policy on foreign farm buys
- SMH
- 20 Mar 2012
Australian Liberal senator Bill Heffernan has described as "bullshit" his party's proposed policy for more scrutiny of overseas companies buying into Australian agriculture because it ignored the real threat posed by foreign government-owned funds buying up farmland.
Barnaby Joyce breaks ranks over foreign ownership of farmland
- SMH
- 16 Mar 2012
The Australian Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce is pushing for even tougher restrictions on foreign ownership of farmland and agribusinesses than those advocated by his party, fuelling Liberal anger at Tony Abbott's failure to rein in National Party ''freelancing'' on sensitive economic issues.
Govt pushes Asian food bowl plan, foreign investment
- The Australian
- 13 Mar 2012
Australian farmers have demanded an overhaul of foreign investment rules ahead of any attempt to harness Asian capital to boost the nation's food production.
COFCO to raise capital to fund acquisitions of overseas sugar firms
- Global Times
- 09 Mar 2012
State-owned food giant COFCO Corp is likely to pursue more overseas acquisitions of sugar companies, its Chairman Ning Gaoning said on the sidelines of the ongoing National People's Congress in Beijing Thursday.
How much foreign investment is too much?
- ABC
- 01 Mar 2012
Senator Bill Heffernan and the managing director of the Australian Agricultural Company David Farley join The Business to discuss overseas investment in Australia.
UK firm buys NT cattle land
- Stock & Land
- 28 February 2012
The 500,000-hectare station, located about 150 kilometres south-west of the Gulf of Carpentaria, is believed to have sold for about $33 million, and included about 28,000 head of mixed cattle in the contract.