After a year-long legal battle, China will be allowed to buy farmland in new Zealand. Some experts say these purchases are less about business and more about rich countries securing their own food supply at the expense of less well off nations.
China, the world's most populous country and biggest consumer of grain, should expand its farming overseas to ensure enough food for its people because of limited land and low productivity at home, agriculture experts said on Wednesday.
Fonterra will develop two new dairy farms in China, increasing to five the number of farms the co-operative has in the country, while, the NZ Government is expected to announce any day whether Shanghai Pengxin can buy the 8000ha Crafar dairy farms.
- Timaru Herald
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14 April 2012
Negocian un acuerdo para llevar riego a zonas del sur a cambio de granos. Es un proyecto similar al polémico acuerdo firmado con Río Negro en 2011
Multinacionales, países petroleros y fondos de inversión están comprando millones de hectáreas. El equilibrio natural, el destino de los campesinos y el futuro del planeta están en juego.
En la última década, los países en desarrollo han dejado en manos extranjeras una superficie equivalente a media Unión Europea. África es un paraíso para estos inversores.
The increasing dominance of China in Africa - industry, not agriculture. UK and US deserve greater critique.
- Rural Modernity
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08 April 2012
The Government clearly hopes the Crafar Farms' controversy will be put to bed before China's fourth-ranked leader Jia Qinglin visits Christchurch and Wellington in mid-April.
"Debido a las estrictas regulaciones en Brasil y Argentina para la compra de tierras agrícolas por parte de inversionistas extranjeros, China ha cambiado su modelo y está invirtiendo en infraestructura en lugar de tierras..."
Este fondo permitirá apoyar proyectos de infraestructura y agricultura en AL
Kenana, Sudan's biggest sugar company, is planning to raise $200 million listing a quarter of its shares in Hong Kong in December, to finance new projects.
State-owned food giant COFCO Corp is likely to pursue more overseas acquisitions of sugar companies, its Chairman Ning Gaoning said on the sidelines of the ongoing National People's Congress in Beijing Thursday.
