Event aims to support “win-win” arrangements whereby investors and host countries can both benefit from international investment, supporting national or regional food security aims.
- US and Japanese Governments
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12 April 2010
Rebuttal from Ethiopia's ambassador to Japan against the article "Japan, please don't go grabbing Ethiopians' land," insisting that the government is only leasing out "unutilized land and some other land holdings by government-owned enterprises".
- Japan Times
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11 April 2010
Japan should shun this new kind of colonization like a plague, no matter what well-paid city-based officials may say.
- Japan Times
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04 April 2010
"At an UNCTAD meeting on investment in agriculture on February 3, China became the central focus of criticism amid a chorus of concerns about the economic, food security, environmental and social impact of large foreign purchases of agricultural lands in developing countries," reports the US mission to Geneva
- Wikileaks
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26 February 2010
The government is aiming to attract less than Rp 100 trillion (US$10.6 billion) in investment through the development of three special economic zones (SEZs) producing agricultural products this year.
- Jakarta Post
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06 February 2010
US government cable discusses 24 January 2010 meeting organised by Swiss Development Corporation, UN Food and Agriculture Organization and International Fund for Agricultural Investment on "Land, Investment, and Development," attended by many of the key players working on responsible international agro-industrial and land investment principles
- Wikileaks
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04 February 2010
Programme aired on NHK World presenting a documentary by Kohei Tsuji filmed in Ethiopia and Tanzania - in Japanese only - 35 minutes
アフリカでも進行する国際的な農地取引 誰にとってのチャンスなのか(2009) AFJの会報より
Arabia Saudita, Corea, China, Japón y otros concentran tierras “baratas” en países del sur
- Radio Mundo Real
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18 November 2009
Japan is leading an international effort to define a new set of 'investor principles' to govern such deals. These efforts are gaining support but will need to involve investors, many of whom are far removed from the donors, global banks and multinational corporations that are used to working with such initiatives.
- Chatham House
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22 October 2009
Several companies like Mitsubishi Corporation are interested in promoting Merauke as a new rice barn in Asia.
- Tempo Interactive
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05 October 2009
The Government of Japan, with the World Bank, FAO, IFAD and UNCTAD, try to initiate a coordinated global response to the growing land grabbing trend at the UN
