• El control de los alimentos está en juego
    • ABC
    • 08 November 2011

    Cada vez más firmas invierten en compra de tierras africanas, asiáticas e iberoamericanas

  • Agriculture : La Chine deviendra le premier importateur mondial
    • Reuters
    • 07 November 2011

    Pour faire face à une demande croissante de produits agricoles, la COFCO, première société de négoce publique chinoise, consacrera plus de 10 milliards de dollars à des fusions et acquisitions à l'étranger dans les cinq années à venir

  • COFCO to expand overseas M&A
    • China Daily
    • 04 November 2011

    "Because of the nation's limited agricultural resources, we have to look overseas," Jiang Hua, a COFCO board member said. The company is trying to connect China's consumer market with overseas supplies of commodities such as sugar, wheat and soybeans.

  • China's farming history misapplied in Africa
    • Al Jazeera
    • 27 October 2011

    Land grabs essentially allow other regions of the world to export their food insecurity to Africa, or for Western investors to profit from a decade-long trend of steadily increasing global food prices.

  • Declaración de la Asamblea Provincial de Luis Beltrán, Valle Medio, Provincia de Río Negro
    • 27 October 2011

    Los abajo firmantes, vecinos, organizaciones y comunidades de toda las regiones de la Provincia de Río Negro, Patagonia Argentina, reunidos en asamblea para rechazar los infames "acuerdos" firmados por el Gobernador saliente, Miguel Angel Saiz, con una corporación china, y en conocimiento de similares proyectos económicos en otros lugares del país, declaramos:

  • Laos, China sign MOU to develop organic farms
    • Vientiane Times
    • 26 October 2011

    Lao and Chinese businesses this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for investment in organic farming in Laos, at a cost of about US$5 million.

  • Wikileaks : la percée chinoise au Cameroun
    • Mutations
    • 26 October 2011

    "Les ressortissants chinois se sont vu atribuer d'importantes parcelles de terres agricoles pour la culture du riz, du champignon et du maïs," raconte l'ambassade des Etats Unis au Cameroun dans une dépèche de Wikileaks.

  • Are foreign investors colonising Africa?
    • Al Jazeera
    • 25 October 2011

    Indian author and media commentator Anand Giridharadas joins this Al Jazeera programme along with Oakland Institute’s Executive Director, Anuradha Mittal, and Christine L. Adamow, Managing Director of Africa BioFuel, a US company invested in farmland in Kenya and Tanzania.

  • Vietnamese to produce rice & rubber in Sierra Leone
    • Awoko
    • 24 October 2011

    Three weeks ago, a team of Vietnamese investors and their technical advisers visited Sierra Leone to conduct feasibility studies with the aim of entering the agribusiness sector in the country.

  • En Argentine, des « indignés » du bout du monde
    • La Croix
    • 24 October 2011

    En Patagonie, la mobilisation s’organise contre le projet d’une entreprise chinoise de cultiver 320 000 hectares de terre.

  • Pelea por nuevas tierras
    • El País
    • 23 October 2011

    Especuladores, Gobiernos, bancos y fondos de pensiones se lanzan a comprar

  • Cofco seeks acquisitions to ‘balance’ China’s food demand
    • Bloomberg
    • 21 October 2011

    Cofco Ltd., China’s largest grains trader, said it is seeking overseas acquisitions to help secure supplies of commodities including soybeans, wheat and sugar as rising domestic incomes spur faster food demand growth.

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