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21 February 2010Jordan 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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11 February 2010South 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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7 February 2010Despite government assurances, the possibility that China could possess Kazakhstani territory leaves many citizens skittish
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3 February 2010Many see the desire for Kazakhstani agricultural land as another tentacle of Beijing's creeping imperialism
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30 January 2010"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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30 January 2010Several hundred people have gathered in the Kazakh city of Almaty to protest against what they call "Chinese expansionism".
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28 December 2009Mr 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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![Glencore bond an ‘opportunity’, Chinese group says]( "Glencore bond an ‘opportunity’, Chinese group says")
24 December 2009Glencore's agricultural interests include 300,000 hectares of land in Australia, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, Russia and Ukraine.
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15 December 2009The 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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14 December 2009Kazakhstan will not "sell" land to China, Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov has announced
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14 December 2009Dozens 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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5 October 2009It isn't often you sit down with a fund manager and begin the interview by discussing their new film.
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9 September 2009A 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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30 July 2009Because 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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2 July 2009The 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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24 May 2009Since 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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27 April 2009Japan 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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26 April 2009The issue of food security is getting higher on Riyadh’s priority list.
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![Après une offensive discrète au Kazakhstan, la Chine lorgne les terres russes inexploitées]( "Après une offensive discrète au Kazakhstan, la Chine lorgne les terres russes inexploitées")
19 April 2009Officiellement, les terres arables louées à la Chine n’existent pas. C’est que les autorités kazakhes craignent la réaction de la population rurale devant la “concurrence déloyale” représentée par l’arrivée en masse de paysans chinois, dont l’équipement agricole est supérieur au vieux matériel soviétique encore utilisé sur la plupart des exploitations kazakhes.
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![Two Saudi firms eye agribusiness investment abroad]( "Two Saudi firms eye agribusiness investment abroad")
15 March 2009Two listed Saudi companies plan to invest in either farming or agri-business abroad under a state-sponsored plan to ensure steady food supplies.