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UAE eyes investment in Chinese agriculture sector
- Emirates 24/7
- 12 Mar 2011
The UAE and other Gulf states in collaboration with Singapore companies are entering the Chinese agriculture market to ensure food security.
China Beidahuang planning large farmland buys overseas
- Dow Jones
- 11 Mar 2011
Beidahuang, one of the China's leading vehicles for the purchase of foreign agricultural properties, will buy 200,000 hectares of farmland overseas this year, with Latin America and South East Asia as the target areas.
Little Sheep eyes farm in New Zealand, paper says
- EJ Insight
- 11 Mar 2011
China's Little Sheep Group says it plans to build a sheep farm in New Zealand in order to increase the supply of lamb for its hot pot restaurant chain business.
SOCFIN Agricultural Company set to establish $ 100 million oil project in Malen chiefdom
- Awoko
- 11 Mar 2011
Investment involves a 40-year lease agreement for the establishment of over 16,000 acres of an oil palm project.
S. Korea to increase overseas farming on record food costs
- Bloomberg
- 10 Mar 2011
About 60 Korean companies were involved in farming in 16 countries by the end of 2010, harvesting about 87,000 metric tons of grain from 24,000 hectares of farmland.
S. Korea set to secure more overseas farmland
- Yonhap
- 10 Mar 2011
South Korea will set aside 40 billion won (US$35.8 million) to help local companies secure overseas farmland this year, the government said. Ten billion won will be paid directly to foreign governments supporting such investments.
Warren Adams: Searching for profits and saving Patagonia
- Fortune
- 10 Mar 2011
The entrepreneur has a plan for land preservation that actually makes money. Now he just has to prove it.
Ethiopia: Regional agreement template (English)
- Oakland Institute
- 10 Mar 2011
English translation of a contract template (original in Amharic) that was given to the Oakland Institute research team in Benishangul
Brazil blocks foreign govts, speculators from buying agri lands
- Commodity Online
- 10 Mar 2011
Brazil is preparing rules that will block foreign governments, state-owned companies and speculators from buying agricultural land while allowing in “genuine” private sector investors.
Brazil sets up new roadblocks for agricultural investments – especially from China
- Wharton
- 09 Mar 2011
Brazil’s growing concerns reflect a larger rethinking on ownership of commodity production underway globally.
King Abdullah initiative on agricultural investment abroad discussed at forum in Khartoum
- SPA
- 09 Mar 2011
Sudan is top of the list of countries selected for Saudi investments, says Undersecretary of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Agriculture
Ukraine, Russia grain export curbs deter investors
- Reuters
- 09 Mar 2011
"Politically the (Ukraine) government wants to reassure the population that these traders are not going to export grain while the population starves," says the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.