The Chinese government has long encouraged businesses to invest in agriculture abroad, and Xi Jinping's first foreign trip as president in the past week involved visits to three African countries.
BRICS states, except Russia, are enhancing and facilitating land grabs abroad in a way that is inconsistent with their proclamations of sustainable development, cooperation solidarity, and respect of national sovereignty.
Report examines Brazil’s programme to transform Mozambique’s Nacala corridor, the Chinese Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre, and a private Chinese rice investment project in the Xai-Xai irrigation scheme.
Leery of product safety in China, Zhu Zhangjin is urging farmers to invest abroad like he has
Malgré l'appétit des Chinois pour le vignoble français, les investisseurs étrangers et notamment les Britanniques désertent le marché du foncier rural, selon une note de conjoncture de la division AgriFrance de BNP-Paribas, publiée mercredi.
The African agriculture sector is showing signs of improvements attributed to BRICS investment flows in smaller agricultural projects, reversing the trend triggered by the global food crisis in 2008.
Des manifestations de paysans ont dégénéré cette semaine en Birmanie. Les affrontements entre les quelque 400 agriculteurs, qui battaient le pavé pour réclamer l’arrêt des expropriations de leurs terres, et la police, ont fait un mort et une cinquantaine de blessés.
The Beidahuang Group has been dismayed by what it regards as negative media coverage of its investment in agricultural land in Australia and plans to scale back while it still purchases more farms.
Video of the seminar on global land grabs and food sovereignty featuring Alexandra Spieldoch, Jim Harkness of IATP and Redwan Hamaza of the Oromia Human Rights and Justice Council.
With a need to import 100m tonnes of grain each year by 2020, Beijing needs to invest in global agricultural markets, experts say
Um relatório do Banco Central sobre investimentos no País, nas mãos da presidente Dilma, informa que estrangeiros já compraram US$ 60 bilhões em terras no Brasil.
China's sovereign-wealth fund is one of three large funds vying to take a stake in Australian dairy company Van Diemen's Land Co.
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