• Chinese livestock firm taps up Southeast Asia
    • Global meat news
    • 14 August 2017

    A leading Chinese livestock and meat processing firm wants to tap supply of cattle from south-east Asia, with a cattle quarantine and slaughtering hub planned for the city of Ruili, on the border with Myanmar.

  • West Australia: Crop downsizing for Chinese group
    • West Australian
    • 10 August 2017

    The Beidahuang Group is rumoured to have leased out the majority of its 85,000 ha of WA farmland purchased or leased in a $200 million spending spree five years ago

  • Zambia, China agric co-operation in fast development mode
    • Zambia Daily Mail
    • 08 August 2017

    Two Chinese media firms – China Agriculture Film and Television Center and Global Max Media Group – co-hosted the China Africa Agriculture Co-operation and Development Summit in Lusaka.

  • China approves 10 international agricultural parks
    • Reuters
    • 07 August 2017

    China has approved plans to establish international agricultural demonstration zones in 10 countries. The projects include an agriculture technology park in Laos, Zambia dan Fiji, said agriculture ministry in a statement.

  • La Chine va créer des zones de démonstration agricole dans 10 pays
    • Commodafrica
    • 06 August 2017

    Le ministère chinois de l'Agriculture a validé la création de "zones de démonstration agricole à l'international" dans 10 pays, rapporte Reuters. Objectif : accroître son influence sur le secteur agricole mondial.

  • Speech at the China Africa Agriculture Cooperation and Development Summit
    • FMPRC
    • 06 August 2017

    "China will continue to encourage Chinese enterprises to invest in large-scale farming, animal husbandry, grain storage and processing in Africa," says China's Ambassador to Zambia.

  • Report: China’s foreign food & ag acquisitions set to increase
    • AgFunder
    • 03 August 2017

    China is poised to have a much larger footprint in the global food supply chain in the near future, according to a new report from Rabobank. The report highlights six acquisitions from the last six years that demonstrate China’s agricultural priorities.

  • Chinese billionaire tried to sell Van Diemen's Land Company before buying it
    • Financial review
    • 02 August 2017

    Even before Lu Xianfeng completed the $280 million purchase of Australia's largest dairy farm in April 2016, the Chinese billionaire was looking to sell. In a messy proposal, Mr Lu planned to offload his holding in the historic VDL to a Chinese listed vehicle he controlled.

  • Stained Trade
    • Global Witness
    • 01 August 2017

    Papua New Guinea (PNG) is home to the largest remaining tropical rainforest in the Asia-Pacific region, and one of the biggest land grabs in modern history. Between 2014 and 2016, Global Witness traced a supply chain spanning some 9,000 miles from the PNG’s forests to retail shelves in the U.S.

  • A growing proposition
    • Asia Asset Management
    • 31 July 2017

    Agribusiness represents a substantial opportunity as well as a priority or even a problem for investors in Asia

  • Chinese company to invest massively in new dairy farms in Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus
    • Belta
    • 27 July 2017

    A dairy farm designed for a very large number of cattle is supposed to be built in a land plot occupying 45,000ha in Belarus with investment from Chinese company DRex Food Group.

  • La Chine soutient les initiatives d'agro-tranformation dans le nord du Ghana
    • Xinhua
    • 23 July 2017

    Un certain nombre d'entreprises chinoises investissent également dans l'agriculture, de la plantation à la transformation, au Ghana

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