China

China increasingly is buying farmland and agricultural companies in South America to feed its ever-growing population.

L’acquisition de 16 fermes laitières (Crafar Farms) par un groupe chinois crée des remous en Nouvelle-Zélande.

Le gouvernement a donné son feu vert à la décision du Bureau de l’investissement à l’étranger qui recommande la vente des 16 fermes laitières Crafar à la société Shanghai Pengxin pour 150 millions de dollars.

Chinese investors are buying New Zealand farmland for the first time as economic ties with the Asian powerhouse grow ever deeper, sparking considerable anxiety in a country where livelihoods are heavily reliant on agriculture.

Shanghai Pengxin Group Co., a Chinese property developer seeking to export dairy products to Asia, won approval to buy 16 New Zealand dairy farms amid local objections to rising foreign ownership of assets.

One of China’s biggest agriculture investment companies, the Hainan Co Ltd for International Economic Corporation, have announced that they have approved the sum of US$ 1,231,986,200 for the production of rubber and rice on 40,000 ha of land in Sierra Leone

The inner workings of one of the NZ Government's most secret agencies, the Overseas Investment Office, could be blown open if it consents to a Chinese company buying the big Crafar dairy farming estate.

Un conglomérat chinois a annoncé mercredi qu'il allait investir 1,3 milliard de dollars pour développer la culture du riz et du caoutchouc en Sierra Leone, le plus gros investissement jamais réalisé dans le secteur agricole dans ce pays.

Tajikistan says it will allow Chinese farmers to rent 200ha of southern Tajik farmland.

Chinese company presidents met with Australian officials and company reps in Sydney to discuss ag investments, ranging from a $25 million, 20,000 ha cotton farm to a $350 million farmland purchase in ­Western ­Australia and Queensland.

About 8000 square kilometres of farmland around the world are now in Chinese hands, Chinese current affairs magazine Phoenix Weekly reports.

No evidence to support the idea that “China” was intending to create an agricultural colony in Mozambique, or make the Zambezi Valley into China’s rice bowl.