China

Booming Gulf looks overseas for agriculture needs
- Associated Press
- 16 November 2008
Gulf nations now are quietly scouring the globe for rich farmland to rent or buy outright.
Commercialisation du sésame - Le Pdg de Dte-Sa vivement préoccupé par les spéculateurs
- Walfadjri
- 05 November 2008
Installé depuis 2008, le groupe Dte/Pda compte à son actif une superficie de 35 000 ha et est représentée dans 11 régions du Sénégal.
Bangladesh-Myanmar contract farming: Opportunity for Bangladesh to meet agricultural shortfall
- Asian Tribune
- 29 October 2008
Myanmar proposed to Bangladesh to take lease of at least 50,000 acres of land in its Rakhine state for contract farming of paddy, onion, maize, soybean, tea, and sugarcane
Top Chinese pharmaceutical firm bares plan to invest in herbal facility in Davao Sur
- Philippine News Agency
- 27 October 2008
Yang told the Philippine President that they are eyeing a 10,000-hectare land in Davao del Sur as possible site for their planned laboratory where they will conduct tests on the viability of growing traditional Chinese herbs, the main ingredient of JKG medicines.
Rising wheat crisis | Pakistan eyeing corporate farming
- The Post
- 12 October 2008
Talks are on with investors from Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia. 25,000 Punjab villages will be affected.
FACTBOX: Investing in Africa: Land and agriculture
- Reuters
- 07 October 2008
Soaring food prices, supply fears among import-dependent countries and rising demand for biofuels have driven up investment in agricultural land, notably in Africa.
Angola launches $6bn agriculture expansion
- Financial Times
- 04 October 2008
Angola, one of the world's fastest-growing economies, has launched an ambitious plan to exploit both its fertile soils and high global food prices to attract $6bn (€4.3bn, £3.4bn) in agriculture investments over the next five years.
Wikileaks: China's succotash security - Plenty of corn (including for exports to North Korea) but not enough beans
- Wikileaks
- 29 September 2008
"Jilin and other corporate entities in China are taking major steps to increase the amount of China-controlled soy plantation both in China and around the world," reports the US Consulate in Shenyang
Gulf states covet Asian farms
- Asia Times
- 26 September 2008
Once committed largely to perceived safe-haven investments in the United States, Gulf nations are now looking to send their petrodollar surpluses towards a more exotic global destination: Southeast Asian farmland.
Upheavals in economy and food security
- Japan Today
- 23 September 2008
Japanese food corporations are stepping up their diversification and security of food sources, in particular taking ownership of the entire supply chain, from owning the farms in other countries, through to the processing and distribution of the food stuffs.
RP-China Farm Deals And Local Agriculture: Feast Or Famine?
- IBON
- 22 September 2008
China is looking at the Philippines to meet its domestic food and energy requirements even as the Chinese economy is being restructured into an enormous assembly hub of manufactured goods for the American, Japanese and European markets.
Wikileaks: Leading businessman on Sudan's agriculture sector, foreign-investor activity, and government mismanagement
- Wikileaks
- 18 September 2008
"In a wide-ranging conversation, Sudanese business magnate Osama Daoud outlined a project to gradually develop as much as 1.26 million acres in northern Sudan for agricultural production," reports the US Embassy in Khartoum