• KKR takes stake in Chinese milk producer with $150m investment
    • Financial Times
    • 16 June 2009

    KKR said that the company planned to build or acquire up to a further 30 large-scale farms over the next few years.

  • Sudan and China to focus on agriculture development
    • Sudan Tribune
    • 15 June 2009

    Sudan and China are expected to sign a number of joint projects in the agricultural field

  • Asia: Land grabs threaten food security
    • IRIN
    • 10 June 2009

    Sam Pov, a rice farmer in Cambodia’s western Battambang Province, is very worried that his land will be taken over by a foreign investor.

  • Betting the farm
    • Fortune/CNN
    • 10 June 2009

    As world population expands, the demand for arable land should soar. At least that's what George Soros, Lord Rothschild, and other investors believe.

  • Africa becomes wary of farm deals: land activist
    • Reuters
    • 09 June 2009

    African nations are becoming more cautious in selling farmland to foreign investors, with governments paying closer attention to deals that could lead to social unrest, AGRA says

  • La Chine et l’Afrique : cela ne fait que commencer
    • Les Afriques
    • 07 June 2009

    Au delà de sa boulimie pour les matières premières du sous-sol africain, la Chine a aussi commencé à s’intéresser à l’agriculture africaine.

  • Chongqing shows its muscle
    • Asia Times
    • 03 June 2009

    High on Chongqing's shopping list is more than 333,000 hectares of farmland, which Huang said would reduce the city's dependence, for example, on imported edible oil.

  • Foreign cropland deals
    • World-Grain.com
    • 01 June 2009

    A flurry of announced international purchases of grain-producing acreage sparks debate about their merits

  • Vos terres : Avis d'expert
    • MAG Cultures
    • 29 May 2009

    Pergam: "J’ai débuté mes achats de terres en 2005, en les étalant sur une période de deux ans jusqu’en 2007. La majorité des terres acquises se situe en Uruguay (35 000 hectares dont 40 % sont consacrés à la culture et 60 % à l’élevage) et les autres, en Argentine, soit 10 000 hectares. J’ai effectué ses achats au travers de la société argentine Campos orientales, l’un des plus gros propriétaires terriens du pays. La plus value latente est de l’ordre de 30 % en deux ans."

  • Food security in Africa: China's new rice bowl
    • China Brief
    • 27 May 2009

    Most Chinese investment in African agriculture is concentrated in southern Africa: Mozambique, Tanzania, Malawi and, increasingly, Angola.

  • Sabah welcomes foreign investors for commercial rice cultivation
    • Bernama
    • 25 May 2009

    The state government is welcoming foreign investors wishing to commercialise padi planting in Sabah in order to increase rice production in the state, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Yahya Hussin said.

  • Buying farmland abroad: Outsourcing's third wave
    • The Economist
    • 21 May 2009

    Rich food importers are acquiring vast tracts of poor countries' farmland. Is this beneficial foreign investment or neocolonialism?

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