China

China plants bitter seeds in South American farmland
- Washington Times
- 02 February 2012
China increasingly is buying farmland and agricultural companies in South America to feed its ever-growing population.
La Chine crée des remous en Nouvelle-Zélande
- La Terre de Chez Nous
- 30 January 2012
L’acquisition de 16 fermes laitières (Crafar Farms) par un groupe chinois crée des remous en Nouvelle-Zélande.
La Nouvelle-Zélande autorise la vente de fermes laitières à la Chine
- 24H dans le Pacifique
- 30 January 2012
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.
Anxiety in New Zealand as Chinese buy dairy farms
- AP
- 27 January 2012
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.
Chinese developer wins approval to buy 16 New Zealand farms
- Bloomberg
- 27 January 2012
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.
Sierra Leone : Agric Ministry receives $1.2bn investment for rice and rubber productions
- Awoko
- 20 January 2012
One of China’s biggest agriculture investment companies, the Hainan Co Ltd for International Economic Corporation, have announced that they have approved the sum of US$ 1,231,986,200 for the production of rubber and rice on 40,000 ha of land in Sierra Leone
Fay group threatens judicial review if Chinese get nod to buy farms
- Stuff
- 20 January 2012
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.
Agriculture: la Chine investit un milliard en Sierra Leone
- AFP
- 18 January 2012
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 to lease farmland to Chinese
- Central Asia Online
- 18 January 2012
Tajikistan says it will allow Chinese farmers to rent 200ha of southern Tajik farmland.
Chinese want slice of rural Australia
- Stock & Land
- 17 January 2012
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.
China looks abroad to satisfy growing appetite
- Sydney Morning Herald
- 16 January 2012
About 8000 square kilometres of farmland around the world are now in Chinese hands, Chinese current affairs magazine Phoenix Weekly reports.
"The Zambezi Valley: China's first agricultural colony?" Fiction or fact?
- chinaafricarealstory.com
- 12 January 2012
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.