Land rights, poverty and risky business in Asia
- CSR Asia
- 10 October 2012
Using or acquiring land for your company can indeed be a risky business and particularly when poor communities are affected.
Using or acquiring land for your company can indeed be a risky business and particularly when poor communities are affected.
"The project has been terminated due to the failure of T4M inability to fulfill their side of the agreement"
More than 30,000 hectares of land in Nampula province will be handed over to Vietnam’s agricultural investors, according to Mozambique News Agency.
Vietnam's Long Van 28 Company is planning to seek funding from the Government to invest in some 200,000 hectares of rice in Sierra Leone.
Vietnam’s Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group started work on the construction of a US$100 million sugar and sugarcane industrial cluster in Attapeu province, southern Laos.
Three weeks ago, a team of Vietnamese investors and their technical advisers visited Sierra Leone to conduct feasibility studies with the aim of entering the agribusiness sector in the country.
Hassad Food Company is keen to secure food supplies for Qatar at reasonable prices through local and international investments in various countries, according to an article in the Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry memorial book ‘40 Years of Excellence and Achievement.’
Not only collecting sweet potatoes in Vietnam, Chinese have also been coming to Vietnam, leasing land to grow sweet potatoes to export to third countries.
UAE investments in Vietnam have reached $3 billion and are set to surge with local companies considering opportunities in agricultural lands, real estate and energy.
Land deals, whether as direct purchases or long-term leases, are being brokered in poor countries by advanced capitalist countries and their TNCs
Several national companies and even the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the capital's sovereign fund, are planning investments in agriculture in countries as diverse as Vietnam, Cambodia, Pakistan, Australia, Romania and the United States.
State-backed food producing and marketing giant, Hassad Food Company, has plans to produce rice in India, Pakistan, the Philippines and Vietnam.
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