China

Get ready for Chinese overseas investment in agriculture
- Choices
- 07 April 2015
As China becomes a large importer, its food security strategy calls for gaining control over imports from their source.
Sino Agro Food engages Burnham Securities Inc. as investment banker & financial advisor
- PRNewswire
- 07 April 2015
Leading Chinese "farm to table" agribusiness, with livestock and plantation operations in China, retains New York investment firm
Russia: Kuban agricultural holding seeks Asian investment to fund growth
- RBTH
- 23 Mar 2015
Kuban Agricultural Holding is in talks to sell a stake with a number of Asian funds and investment companies, including Chinese firm CIC, which is interested in Basic Element's livestock division.
China's Marxist communal farming makes way for agribusiness
- LA Times
- 20 Mar 2015
Most of China's agribusinesses are locally owned, but foreign investors are seeding the market. In rural Anhui province, Cargill recently opened an operation named Site 82 that breeds, slaughters and processes 65 million chickens a year.
Chinese investment in Namibia grows to US$4.6bn
- Xinhua
- 16 Mar 2015
Chinese companies are planning to invest in maize and tobacco farming in the Zambezi region of Namibia where the environment is very good and the land is fertile. The companies are now doing the preparatory work.
Vin: les acheteurs chinois en bordelais progressent, leurs difficultés apparaissent
- AFP
- 13 Mar 2015
Un tiers des acheteurs des propriétés viticoles du Bordelais, en France, sont des investisseurs chinois
Donors warn Ethiopia of Omo conflict risk from rapid sugar plans
- Africa Intelligence Media
- 11 Mar 2015
Ethiopian Sugar Corp. is tapping loans from Development Bank of China to build six sugar-processing factories and plant 150,000 hectares of sugar cane in the region bordering Kenya. This may exacerbate conflict in the ethnically diverse region.
Youth activists condemn land given to Chinese company
- The Citizen
- 10 Mar 2015
A group of Namibian youth activists have condemned their government’s intention to approve the lease of 10,000 hectares of fertile land to a Chinese company to grow tobacco for export.
Does Australia's farm sector need foreign investment?
- BBC
- 01 Mar 2015
Foreign investors own 10% of Australia's agricultural land. But that could soon rise thanks to two huge projects being developed in Northern Territory's Top End with the help of foreign investors.
Agro-alimentaire : la nouvelle stratégie chinoise
- La Tribune
- 17 February 2015
Les investissement chinois dans l'agroalimentaire montent en puissance. Objectif: assurer l'indépendance alimentaire du pays.
New Hope targets Moxey dairy
- Financial Review
- 12 February 2015
China's largest privately owned agribusiness company and the Perich family from Sydney are looking to buy a $100 million dairy in western New South Wales.
Food, farming, luxury lead China’s interest
- The Australian
- 04 February 2015
KPMG says food and farming is one of the "hot sectors" for Chinese overseas investment in 2015.