Japan

El neocolonialismo agrario amenaza con dejar sin alimentos a los países en desarrollo
- Capital News
- 15 September 2009
Casi 20 millones de hectáreas en África, Asia o América Latina han pasado a manos de gobiernos o inversores privados extranjeros
Russia eyes Japan investment in farms, ports
- Reuters
- 31 August 2009
Russia is in talks with Japanese companies to secure investment in Siberian farmland and Pacific ports that would allow the world's No. 3 wheat exporter to carve a greater share of Asian markets, a senior grain official said.
Rice congress to address food shortages
- Viet Nam News
- 22 August 2009
The congress will look at one of the key trends in world rice and other food production, including the "off-shoring" of farm production by several influential countries, including China, South Korea and Japan, he said.
Japan changes tack to fix food shortage
- Financial Times
- 03 August 2009
After focusing for decades on oil, metals and minerals, Japan's huge trading houses are turning to agricultural commodities, with Tokyo enthusiastically supporting the shift amid concerns about local and global food security .
Jinggoy questions lease of prime farmlands to foreigners
- Daily Tribune
- 31 July 2009
"We would also like to know why this government has been so aggressive in pushing these lease deals of our farmlands to the rich countries," Philippines Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada said.
Is a recolonization of Africa underway?
- New Vision
- 14 July 2009
I wonder how many other behind-the-scenes transactions are currently underway in the continent that will only be announced when the deals have been signed and perhaps money has exchanged hands.
Rich states shouldn't grab 3rd World's farmland
- Yomiuri Shimbun
- 12 July 2009
Rather than participating in the race for farmland overseas, Japan should concentrate on raising its food self-sufficiency rate, which is now at about 40 percent.
Japan government mulling providing $3bln-$4bln for food security
- Dow Jones
- 10 July 2009
Tokyo is now preparing to expand Official development assistance to support agricultural technology innovations and improve social infrastructure in such areas, which in turn could help activate private agricultural investment
G8 backs Japan's farmland investment principle idea
- Reuters
- 09 July 2009
Japan's proposal to set up a set of common guidelines to promote smooth global investment in agriculture was endorsed by other leaders of the G8
Aso takes aim at wealthy states' 'land grabs' in developing world
- Japan Times
- 08 July 2009
Prime Minister Taro Aso says he will call on world to develop principles promoting responsible foreign investment in agriculture in the face of "land grabs" of large-scale farmland in poor nations to ensure food supplies for wealthy nations.
World's rich in massive land grab
- The Global Report
- 08 July 2009
Video from The Global Report reporting that the G8 will address land grabbing through win-win solutions
The world must learn to live and farm sustainably
- Financial Times
- 05 July 2009
We need non-binding principles, not regulation, to make land grabbing win-win, says Japan's Prime Minister before the G8 Summit