An Australian cattle farm was used by Chinese-owned company United World Enterprises to lure retirees into investing up to $46 million for fake agritourism and aged-care village schemes.
Villagers in Kilwa were encouraged to give up their lands for an investment in large-scale farms to produce cassava for export, but as time passed on, they realised the much touted investor was but a ghost.
Bipartisan pressure is building to stop foreign nationals from purchasing American farm operations and receiving taxpayer subsidies.
Dairy giant Fonterra has sold two joint venture farms in China to Singapore-based AustAsia Investment Holdings for US$115.5m.
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.
La Chine semble avoir ralenti dans sa course au foncier en France.
Singapore-based Japfa, through its 75 per cent-owned subsidiary AustAsia Investment Holdings, has agreed to buy two dairy farms in Shandong, China.
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.
Illnesses and deaths have long been reported among workers at foreign-owned banana farms in Laos.
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 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.
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.
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Italy supports sustainable agriculture projects in Ghana
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