Australia: Three NSW farms sold to US, Dutch investors for US$89 million
    The Kahlbetzer family’s Twynam Agricultural Group has sold three properties in Lachlan Valley in New South Wales to two overseas investors – MERS Global Investments and Optifarm
    • Global AgInvesting
    • 09 April 2018
    €50 million loan for Turkish fruit and juice company Anadolu Etap
    Anadolu Etap is a joint venture between the Turkish companies Anadolu Group and Özgörkey Holding and the Cutrale Group, owned by one of Brazil's largest orange and soybean farming families. The company has 6 different farms covering 2.500 ha in Turkey.
    • EBRD
    • 22 July 2016
    Ningxia Province to invest in rice production at Weta
    Under an agreement between the Volta Regional Coordinating Council and China's Ningxia Province, the Ningxia Agricultural Development Group will begin investing in 100 hectares acquired at the irrigation site.
    • Diamond Radio
    • 17 Mar 2014
    US bean farmers seek Brazil farmland deals
    In a small-town spin on a global agricultural investment trend, a group of US Midwest soybean farmers has issued a private placement this month to raise capital for farmland acquisitions in Brazil.
    • Reuters
    • 17 June 2010
    Artistic impression down on the farm
    The Sekem Group, Egypt’s foremost producer and exporter of organic food to Europe and the US, is not a typical Egyptian enterprise.
    • Financial Times
    • 17 June 2009
    Open letter to Socapalm, Socfinaf and Socfin
    Since 2021, Socapalm – majority-owned by Socfinaf, a Luxembourg holding itself part owned by the Bolloré Group – has been replanting palms to rejuvenate its plantation at Edéa, in Cameroon, creating tremendous difficulty for neighbouring villagers.
    • Collective
    • 17 February 2025
    Noumi dairy farm shares now worth $30m as New Hope confirms bid
    Chinese agribusiness giant, New Hope Group, has moved to buy itself a comfortable majority share of the big Australian Fresh Milk Holdings dairy farming business.
    • North Queensland Registry
    • 25 July 2022
    Saudi Company allocates more than $90 million to South Kazakhstan poultry farm
    Saudi Arabian Al Ramez International Group will finance a poultry farm in the South Kazakhstan region and is willing to invest in other agricultural areas, such as cultivating sheep and cattle.
    • Astana Times
    • 03 February 2017
    Senhuile : La société d'agrobusiness continue son rythme effréné de licenciement
    La société d'agrobusiness Senhuile SA, contrôlée par les Italiens de Tampieri Financial Group, est dans la mélasse des affaires judiciaires
    • Enquête
    • 12 October 2015
    Goodfellow takes on China role
    Agribusiness executive David Goodfellow is heading up a project for Zhejiang RIFA Holding Group to build an Australian livestock property portfolio of similar scale to Macquarie Bank's big Paraway Pastoral business.
    • The Land
    • 22 December 2014
    Cash crops with dividends: Financiers transforming strawberries into securities
    A small but growing group of sophisticated investors and bankers are combining crops and the soil they grow in into an asset class that ordinary investors can buy a piece of.
    • New York Times
    • 22 July 2014
    HAGL eyes Cambodia agriculture expansion
    Controversial Vietnamese rubber giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group is to expand its agricultural business in Cambodia to include corn, according to the company’s CEO Nguyen Van Su.
    • Phnom Penh Post
    • 22 April 2014
    China pours EUR 30 M in agriculture in Bulgaria, EU's poorest region
    Tianjin State Farms Agribusiness Group has rented 20 000 decares of land in Bulgaria's Northwestern Region to produce corn, forage, and sunflower for export.
    • Novinite
    • 17 November 2011
    Noble seeks to add coal mines, ports to fuel growth
    Noble Group Ltd., the commodity supplier backed by China Investment Corp., wants to buy and build coal mines, ports and plantations to benefit from rising Asian demand, Chief Executive Officer Ricardo Leiman said.
    • Bloomberg
    • 15 Mar 2010
    Dufil consolidates on land acquisition, commences compensation to Edo farmers
    Following its acquisition of 17,954 ha from the Edo State government for palm oil cultivation, Dufil Prima Foods has embarked on a crop compensation payment to 1,628 farmers across 14 communities.
    • Business Day
    • 15 April 2019
    Foreign investment in U.S. farmland on the rise
    The value of the foreign-owned U.S. farmland soared from $17.4 billionto $42.7 billion, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data. Most of today’s foreign investment in agricultural land began to increase in 2005
    • Demoines Register
    • 03 July 2017
    Bungkalan in Sara benefits 100 dislocated farmers
    More than 100 farmers and farm workers became beneficiaries of the first bungkalan - land cultivation- in the Philippines under Duterte regime. Farmers collectively cultivated 7.9 hectares which is part of the 700 hectares Sanson landholding covering about 17 villages of the said town.
    • Panay today
    • 26 June 2017
    Land of the giants: Investors favor scale on Brazil's frontier
    In Brazil, El Tejar and others are investing in ownership and hope to capture land appreciation. BrasilAgro brags that it sold one farm for a gain of 116 percent in just 17 months.
    • DTN
    • 19 May 2010
    Ingleby Company in New Zealand for the long haul
    Since 1999, The Ingleby Company has bought about 17 farms. The company runs just under 20,000ha of land with 130,000 stock units, most of which are sheep and cattle.
    • Country Wide
    • 04 January 2008
    Unifrutti buys Chile-based fruit supplier Verfrut
    Unifrutti Group in Abu Dhabi has bought Verfrut, a “prominent fresh produce player with a presence in Chile and Peru, where it operates over 7,500 hectares of fully integrated farming and processing facilities”
    • JustFood
    • 22 January 2024
    Indigenous kuy people block outsiders from clearing farmland in Preah Vihear
    The site of the dispute is part of a 42,420 hectares economic land concession that was granted to the Chinese company Hengfu Group Sugar Industry in 2011.
    • Camboja News
    • 17 January 2024
    Canadian Mounties super fund snaps up Casella vineyards
    A large Canadian pension fund which counts the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and defence force workers as members has acquired 35 vineyards in Australia from wine group Casella
    • AFR
    • 28 November 2022
    “Business as usual” chez Socfin et Bolloré
    Tribune collective préparée par plus de 40 organisations à la veille de l'AG es groupes Socfin et Bolloré sur la situation autour de plusieurs plantations de palmier et d'hévéa apparentenant au group Socfin
    • L'Humanité
    • 25 May 2020
    Kenya: New investor lands at Yala Swamp
    The Siaya county government has given the green light for a new investor -- Lake Agro Limited, a subsidiary of the Rai Group of Companies -- to move into Yala swamp and takeover existing farms.
    • Standard
    • 15 February 2019
    Landrush- Frontier land
    World of Matter project provides video and photos about large-scale agricultural projects, including the Pinesso Group's operations in Sudan and Karuturi's farms in Ethiopia
    • World of Matter
    • 11 February 2015
    China ups Argentine farmland purchases
    Last week, China's largest farming company, Heilongjiang Beidahuang Nongken Group, inked a joint venture with Argentina's Cresud SA to buy land and farm soybeans.
    • Dow Jones
    • 17 June 2011
    Bangladeshi firms join Africa land rush
    Nitol-Niloy Group and Bhati Bangla Agrotec of Bangladesh aim to invest an initial US$18 million to lease around 40,000 hectares of African land by the end of this year to grow foodstuff, most of which they will be obliged to sell in Bangladesh.
    • Asia Times
    • 10 June 2011
    Dominion domination: The scandal of Yala Swamp
    “MPs want ActionAid to keep off”, screams the caption of a story in the East African Standard of January 3, 2006. The story is attributed to MPs Oburu Odinga and Ayiecho Olweny who claim that the NGO is inciting residents of trouble ridden Yala Swamp rice scheme in which American investor Dominion Group of Companies has been embroiled in a tussle with the community over issues of land dispossession
    • Ujamaa Center
    • 16 December 2006
    THACO invests $1B in Cambodia agriculture, eyes $800M yearly revenue by 2028
    THACO AGRI, a subsidiary of Vietnam’s Truong Hai Group Corporation (THACO), operates fruit farms and cattle ranches on over 33,000 ha in Kratie and Ratanakiri provinces.
    • Phnom Penh Post
    • 17 February 2025
    Entity linked to billionaire Bill Gates pays $13.5 million for Campbell Farms' North Dakota farmland
    Records show that the Campbell potato farming group has transferred more than $13 million worth of farmland to entities tied to Bill Gates, who is reputedly the largest farmland owner in the US.
    • AgWeek
    • 09 June 2022
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