China

Chinese investor plans to spend $100m on beef
- Australian Financial Review
- 04 May 2015
One of China’s largest beef producers, Honda Agriculture, is looking to buy up to $100 million worth of cattle property in Australia over the next 12 months.
Banks and pension funds continue to bankroll deforestation and land grabs
- Guardian
- 30 April 2015
It’s right to hold destructive palm oil companies to account, but until we look to the organisations funding their activities we’re missing an important part of the puzzle.
Asia's agrarian reform in reverse: laws taking land out of small farmers' hands
- GRAIN
- 30 April 2015
Legislative changes now sweeping across Asia threaten to displace millions of peasant families, undermine local food systems and increase violent conflicts over land. Already, just six percent of Asia's farm owners hold around 66% of its farmland.
Cambodian villagers march to ask for foreign intervention in land dispute
- RFA
- 28 April 2015
Around 50 villagers representing 90 families from Lor Peang village in Kampong Chhnang province presented petitions to the U.S. and European Union embassies among others, accusing KDC International—a company run by Chea Keng, wife of Cambodia’s Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem—of encroaching on their land.
Le Fonds de développement sino-africain veut investir
- Madagascar TV
- 27 April 2015
Le ministre de l’Agriculture est persuadé que Madagascar pourrait consolider ses acquis, grâce à l’apport des Chinois, pour mettre en oeuvre son programme « Grenier de l’Océan Indien »
BRICS and development: new hubs of agrarian capital
- The Zimbabwean
- 27 April 2015
Ian Scoones summarises some of the discussion at the PLAAS Cape Town conference on the engagement of Brazil, China and South Africa in patterns of agrarian change.
Gambia set to sign MOU with Chinese agriculture firm
- Daily Observer
- 27 April 2015
The Government of The Gambia and Zoeve Seed Company sign MOU on a farming project that will commence with 1000 hectares for rice production.
Green tape could kill Ord farm
- West Australian
- 22 April 2015
A Chinese company developing farm land in the Ord River area has warned it will not proceed with the project under a raft of conditions set out by Australia's environmental watchdog.
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.