China

China is buying up American farms. Washington wants to crack down.
- Politico
- 20 July 2021
Bipartisan pressure is building to stop foreign nationals from purchasing American farm operations and receiving taxpayer subsidies.
Fonterra completes sale of China JV farms
- COOP News
- 19 July 2021
Dairy giant Fonterra has sold two joint venture farms in China to Singapore-based AustAsia Investment Holdings for US$115.5m.
Chinese companies corralling land around world
- Nikkei
- 13 July 2021
In Japan, concerns are growing that emerging and developing countries, as sources of supply for food and natural resources, will fall under China's sway.
Chine. La renommée des vignobles français attire les investisseurs
- Ouest France
- 08 July 2021
La Chine semble avoir ralenti dans sa course au foncier en France.
Japfa to acquire two dairy farms for $165.7 million to strengthen foothold in China
- Straits Times
- 30 June 2021
Singapore-based Japfa, through its 75 per cent-owned subsidiary AustAsia Investment Holdings, has agreed to buy two dairy farms in Shandong, China.
Under the spotlight: Chinese banks' risky agribusiness portfolio
- Global Witness
- 07 June 2021
China is one of the world's largest consumers of agricultural commodities such as soy and palm oil that drive deforestation globally. But it isn’t just Chinese consumption of these commodities that is helping fuel forest destruction. Global Witness new analysis sheds a spotlight on the often-overlooked role of Chinese banks as some of the biggest global financiers of deforestation.
Two Lao workers die from suspected chemical use at Chinese-owned banana farm
- RFA
- 24 May 2021
Illnesses and deaths have long been reported among workers at foreign-owned banana farms in Laos.
L’accord chinois pour la construction d’un port de pêche en Sierra Leone rencontre une résistance
- News24
- 19 May 2021
La Sierra Leone a accepté de vendre 100 ha de plage immaculée et de forêt tropicale à la Chine dans le cadre d’un accord de 55 millions de dollars qui verrait un port de pêche industriel construit sur le site.
Le Kazakhstan interdit ses terres arables aux étrangers sur fond de sentiment antichinois
- AFP
- 14 May 2021
Le président du Kazakhstan a promulgué jeudi une loi interdisant la vente de terres agricoles à des étrangers, sur fond de protestations dirigées contre les investissements de la Chine, pays voisin de cette ex-république soviétique d'Asie centrale.
KKR invests in Adopt A Cow
- Business Wire
- 18 April 2021
Chinese dairy company engaged in alfalfa growing, dairy farming, milk processing, and marketing will use KKR funds to construct more dairy farms and import Australian dairy cows.
New Zealand's Fonterra completes sale of two China farms
- The Cattle Site
- 08 April 2021
Fonterra has completed the sale of its two wholly owned farming hubs in China where it will now focus on creating value from its New Zealand farmers’ milk
Ukrainian plans for a breeding farm in Kazakhstan
- Pig Progress
- 23 Mar 2021
Ukrainian pig company KSG Agro and its Swiss partner plan to build a breeding complex for 50,000 pigs in Kazakhstan, which is free of African Swine Fever, to export pork to China.

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