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Chinese meat firms are looking abroad to scout for potential acquisition targets among beef farmers and processors.

"D'aucuns estiment que la presse française a mal interprété un certain nombre d'investissements chinois classiques et que la Chine et la France doivent davantage se faire confiance," écrit le gouvernement chinois.

A group of Malaysia and Chinese investors are looking to invest as much as $2 billion in Indonesia’s integrated rice farms in the next seven years.

Steep growth in Chinese olive oil consumption, unlikely to be met soon by a budding domestic supply, is encouraging investors to get hold of olive farms and processing plants in producing countries.

China's Legend Holdings went on a buying binge, both at home and abroad, taking over a blueberry farm in Qingdao, a kiwi fruit company in Sichuan Province and five Chilean fruit companies.

Companies linked to China's biggest agricultural conglomerate are being flooded with offers to buy or lease "hundreds of thousands" of hectares of land in Australia's Wheatbelt in the early stages of their bid to create an independent grain supply chain from the port of Albany.

Weeks before a Chinese conglomerate agreed to buy Smithfield Foods Inc. in the largest such takeover of a US business, Missouri lawmakers quietly approved legislation removing a ban on foreign ownership of agricultural land.

Pour satisfaire l'appétit insatiable de l'Asie, des immigrés chinois investissent depuis peu des millions de dollars dans les prairies de l'Ouest canadien.

China is headed to spend a record this year on food assets and farms after a $32.7 billion splurge in the past five years and just $4.2 billion in the prior half-decade, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

Decades-old laws barring foreign ownership of farmland in Iowa, Missouri and at least three other Midwest states may complicate Chinese company Shuanghui International's $4.7 billion planned purchase of US pork powerhouse Smithfield Foods.

Es la compra más importante de una empresa norteamericana por capitales chinos y por otra parte, cambia el panorama del negocio porcino del mundo, al tiempo que muestra a las claras la necesidad creciente e inmediata que hoy tiene China para abastecerse de alimentos.

If the Chinese government is to achieve its goal of accelerated urbanization, one issue it must deal with is food security. As China has developed more of its land, concerns have developed over whether enough arable land will be available to produce enough food to feed its massive population.