• [Viewpoint] Korea’s inflationary challenges
    • Joong Ang Daily
    • 29 January 2011

    Building overseas food production bases, developing overseas food resources and vitalizing direct overseas transactions and diversification of import sources are crucial for Korea

  • Land clearance by Korean firm blocked
    • Phnom Penh Post
    • 07 January 2011

    800 people in Kampong Thom province staged a protest against a Korean company that is trying to clear their trees and farmland, to produce rubber and cassava, without offering any compensation.

  • Selling to Korea
    • CNN
    • 24 December 2010

    CNN's Robyn Curnow sat down with the head of Tanzania's Development Authority, Aloyce Msanja, to find out about the sale of "unused" land to Korea.

  • Perú: Juez legaliza despojo de tierras a nativos.
    • La Primera
    • 16 November 2010

    Líderes de la Nación Shawi defenderán las tierras que les pertenecen, en rechazo a una orden judicial que concede título de propiedad a una empresa coreana.

  • S.Korea to farm Tanzania site in early 2011
    • Reuters
    • 11 November 2010

    Tanzania expects South Korea to begin farming 15,000 hectares of land in the east African country early next year for food production and processing, a senior official said on Thursday.

  • Land grab: Africa at the mercy of investors abroad
    • Asahi Shimbun
    • 27 September 2010

    The fact is, Madagascar agriculture must rely on foreign capital, despite the risk of problems from farmland deals, according to Masanobu Furuya of the Asahi Shimbum

  • Large-scale farm deals endanger local control, World Bank says
    • Bloomberg
    • 08 September 2010

    Foreign purchases of agricultural land from Mozambique to Cambodia pose “significant risks” to the livelihoods of farmers in countries with “weak land governance,” the World Bank said in a report.

  • ANALYSIS-Brazil ups stakes for foreign investors in farmland
    • Reuters
    • 24 August 2010

    Brazil's essential role as a provider of food for the world's expanding population is at risk if the government makes good on threats to curtail foreign investment in farmland.

  • Lower Ruvu intruders won’t be compensated
    • Daily News
    • 18 August 2010

    Government of Tanzania will not compensate villagers who have moved onto land of the proposed irrigation farming project with Korea.

  • Tanzania: South Korea set to expand co-operation
    • Tanzania Daily News
    • 16 August 2010

    A delegation of Korea experts is expected to arrive in the country to sign a $50 million pact covering an initial 15,000 ha in the Rufiji River Basin.

  • Lula defende inibir venda de terras a estrangeiros
    • Folha de São Paulo
    • 08 June 2010

    Pelo menos nove grupos, entre coreanos, chineses e indonésios, vieram neste ano ao país em busca de terras para plantio de alimentos.

  • Hyundai Co. aims to purchase 10,000 ha farmland in Brazil
    • MBN
    • 10 May 2010

    South Korea's Hyundai Corporation is trying to purchase 10,000 ha of farmland in Brazil to grow soybeans for the Korean market

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