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Kyiv Post10 Jun 10A new class of farmers is on the rise in Ukraine. Three articles about the situation with foreign investors taking control of the country's farmlands.
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Reuters30 Apr 10Saudi Arabian investors are looking to expand their agricultural investments in the United States to secure long-term food supply because of water shortages in the desert kingdom, Saudi officials said on Thursday.
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Jordan Times21 Feb 10Jordan and Kazakhstan are considering a joint venture to produce grain in Kazakh territories to secure the Kingdom's needs at fair prices.
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Yonhap11 Feb 10South Korea's state-run agriculture trading corporation says that it aims to set up an international grain purchasing and distribution company that can invest directly in foreign farms or control stakes in agricultural operations.
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EurAsia Review07 Feb 10Despite government assurances, the possibility that China could possess Kazakhstani territory leaves many citizens skittish
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Vancouver Sun03 Feb 10Many see the desire for Kazakhstani agricultural land as another tentacle of Beijing's creeping imperialism
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Reuters30 Jan 10"They (the government) borrowed $13 billion from China and now they want to pay it back with our land," Bolat Abilov, a leader of the opposition party Azat, said at the rally. “No Chinese soya beans on the Kazakh land!” shouted one protester.
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BBC30 Jan 10Several hundred people have gathered in the Kazakh city of Almaty to protest against what they call "Chinese expansionism".
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Financial Times28 Dec 09Mr Massimov said Kazakhstan was negotiating an agreement with China to fund farming projects in Kazakhstan. “We are not giving China any land. The land code forbids it. But if we have a buyer [for crops], be it China or Arabia, then let’s sell,” he said.
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Agrimoney.com24 Dec 09Glencore's agricultural interests include 300,000 hectares of land in Australia, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, Russia and Ukraine.
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Kazakhstan Today15 Dec 09The head of state at the last session of the Council of Foreign Investors informed that China had requested to lease 1 million hectares of Kazakh farmland for cultivation of rape and soya. According to A. Evniev, "It is not a lease, it is a question of joint manufacture. In this case, it is soya and later it will be corn and rape."
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Kazinform14 Dec 09Kazakhstan will not "sell" land to China, Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov has announced
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RFE/RL14 Dec 09Dozens of Kazakh activists staged a protest today in front of the Chinese Embassy in Almaty against the planned leasing of Kazakh land to China, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
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Business News Europe05 Oct 09It isn't often you sit down with a fund manager and begin the interview by discussing their new film.
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Reuters09 Sep 09A group of private Saudi investors said they plan to start a company with $533.3 million capital that will invest in farm projects mainly abroad. First projects may be with Ghana, Turkey and Kazakhstan.
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Der Spiegel30 Jul 09Because of the political sensitivity of the modern-day land grab, it is often only the country's head of state who knows the details. Der Spiegel investigates.
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Reuters02 Jul 09The emergence of the farmland asset class is not without pitfalls with the provision of food always highly political and a tentative global economic recovery potentially threatened by the H1N1 flu pandemic, fund managers said.
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FT24 May 09Since details emerged of Saudi Arabia’s plans to ensure supplies of wheat, rice, corn, soya beans and alfalfa through overseas agricultural investments, officials have insisted that they intended the programme to be private-sector led.
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Bloomberg27 Apr 09Japan is considering providing loans from a government-owned bank for companies to purchase and lease farmland abroad, Munemitsu Hirano, counsellor at the international affairs department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said.
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Dawn26 Apr 09The issue of food security is getting higher on Riyadh’s priority list.