Australia

TPP negotiations could open NZ up to US land grab
- Green Party
- 06 December 2010
New Zealand’s overseas investment regime will be on the US’ hit list during the Trans Pacific Partnership talks this week.
What cost foreign interest?
- Stock & Land
- 24 November 2010
Government has taken action to resolve lingering speculation and strengthen transparency surrounding the degree of foreign ownership in Australian agriculture.
Australia to examine foreign takeovers
- WSJ
- 23 November 2010
Australia's center-left Labor government said Tuesday it will examine foreign ownership of the country's rural land and agricultural food production in response to a spate of takeovers that have triggered anxiety about job losses and broader concerns about food security.
Farmers want register of overseas buyers of Oz farmland & water licences
- ABC
- 16 November 2010
New South Wales Farmers Association is calling for a register of all overseas purchases of Australian agricultural land and water licenses.
Foreign land grab on Aussie farms and brands to secure local food supply
- Daily Telegraph
- 15 November 2010
More than $9 billion of prized agricultural assets have been sold to offshore interests in the past two years alone.
Pastoral holdings remain a family affair
- The Australian
- 30 October 2010
Fears that faceless corporations and international investors would become the new barons of the Australian bush have proved to be unfounded
Singapore's Wilmar eyes Aust's Sucrogen for Papua sugar project
- Asia Pulse
- 29 October 2010
Wilmar is eyeing Indonesia's Papua Province for a massive cane growing project.
Australia should look to its food security, before all the farm is sold
- Sydney Morning Herald
- 14 October 2010
Australians are in danger of becoming servants, not masters, of their own food resources.
GM 'lesser of two evils': Olam
- The Land
- 04 October 2010
Mr Verghese says that Olam sees "sustainable value" in investing in agriculture, including farmland, and that GM crops are an inevitable "must".
Foreign investment in Aussie farms is nothing unusual
- Australian Farm Journal
- 04 October 2010
The anxiety expressed in some farming quarters and the daily media about Australian farms becoming dominated by foreign corporations and governments fails to recognise that the coming and going of overseas investors has always been part of rural property transactions.
Emirates Group starts search to buy food assets in Australia, New Zealand
- Bloomberg
- 29 September 2010
Emirates Investments Group is looking to buy food and agricultural assets in Australia and New Zealand as global demand climbs, CEO Raza Jafar said.
Liquid gold
- Sydney Morning Herald
- 04 September 2010
In an era when many countries are starting to worry about food security, foreign agribusiness might buy into the rural water market here in Australia and use permanent water holdings to dictate how our farmland should be used.