• Huishan Dairy plans up to $1.3 bln Hong Kong IPO
    • Reuters
    • 09 September 2013

    Huishan Dairy has received commitments worth $220 million from three cornerstone investors -Norway's Norges Bank, Yili Group and Cofco Agricultural Industry Management - to expand its herd of cows.

  • US security panel clears a Chinese takeover of Smithfield Foods
    • New York Times
    • 06 September 2013

    Smithfield Foods won national security clearance on Friday for its proposed $4.7 billion sale to a Chinese meat processor, overcoming one of the biggest obstacles to a takeover.

  • Chinese entrepreneurs plan new wave of settlers
    • Western Producer
    • 05 September 2013

    Two Chinese-Canadian entrepreneurs that have been investing in farmland in Manitoba say they will establish an agricultural fund for Chinese investors who want to own a piece of Canada’s agriculture industry.

  • Would-be Crafar farm buyers lose court bid
    • Stuff
    • 02 September 2013

    The High Court in Auckland has formalised a wide-ranging asset freeze against the unsuccessful bidders for the Crafar farms, Jack Chen and May Wang.

  • El huerto de Jossía y Marta ya no da tomates
    • La Vanguardia
    • 30 August 2013

    La compañía china Wanbao ha alquilado al Gobierno de Maputo la tierra que cultivaban Marta y Jossía Xavier Aldekoa, campesinos en Mozambique

  • Pork and protectionism in America
    • The New Yorker
    • 28 August 2013

    Today foreigners hold less than 2% of all agricultural land in the US. However, this share is growing as more foreign pension funds and others look to cash in on a boom in farmland values and commodity prices.

  • Brazil and China scramble for agricultural influence in Africa
    • Guardian
    • 28 August 2013

    Agriculture is central to Chinese and Brazilian development efforts – how trailblazing are their methods?

  • Rudd vows to double farm land in north
    • West Australian
    • 16 August 2013

    Kevin Rudd has committed to double the amount of land for farming in northern Australia and simplify investment rules for foreign investors, to take advantage of the boom in Asian demand for produce

  • SL Agritech, First Pacific eye Indonesia
    • Manila Times
    • 11 August 2013

    Because of difficulty in securing commercial-scale agricultural lands in the Philippines, hybrid rice producer SL Agritech Corp. said that it may shift its planned joint venture with the Manny Pangilinan-led First Pacific Co. Ltd. to Indonesia.

  • China avanza en el control de industrias de alimentos
    • El Universal
    • 09 August 2013

    Al Gobierno chino y sus empresas les urge controlar un grueso de la industria de alimentos del planeta para satisfacer la demanda interna ante su acelerado crecimiento demográfico.

  • China to invest $2.6 billion in Ukraine’s agriculture
    • Ukrinform
    • 03 August 2013

    Ukraine’s State Food and Grain Corporation and China’s Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have signed a memorandum on cooperation in supporting priority projects in agriculture. Chinese investment in Ukraine’s agricultural sector will reach more than $2.6 billion.

  • L’accaparement des terre et de la souveraineté par les Brics
    • Pambazuka
    • 02 August 2013

    L'accaparement des terres comme une forme de néo-colonialisme n'est pas une question de noms et d’origines, mais simplement une question liée à l'expansion mondiale du système capitaliste.

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