O acordo de US$ 7 bilhões assinado no mês passado –para produção de 6 milhões de toneladas de soja por ano– é um dos vários fechados nas últimas semanas, enquanto a China se apressa para assegurar sua segurança alimentar e compensar sua crescente dependência de produtos agrícolas dos Estados Unidos, buscando vastas áreas do interior agrícola da América Latina.
New Zealanders could not afford to be "totally xenophobic" towards Chinese investment because it has brought jobs and capital into the country, Prime Minister John Key said Monday.
The Chinese article on the deal emphasized that Chongqing citizens would get the soy oil at a very cheap price ("价格将更便宜").
Opposition activists in Kazakhstan called on the government on Saturday to stop Chinese investment in the country's natural resources, saying Beijing could be preparing a land grab in Central Asia
País possui maior reserva cambial do mundo, avaliada em US$ 3,04 trilhões
- Agência Estado
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27 May 2011
China should use its huge foreign exchange reserves to expand investment in the agricultural sector overseas, in an effort to increase domestic market supply, says researcher with government-owned economic institute.
“They are moving in,” said Carlo Lovatelli, president of the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries. “They are looking for land, looking for reliable partners. But what they would like to do is run the show alone.”
- New York Times
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26 May 2011
A new study into how virtual water moves around the world offers an explanation for the farmland leasing strategy, reports New Scientist
- New Scientist
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26 May 2011
China's enormous sovereign wealth fund, the China Investment Corporation, may have set aside up to 1.5% or about $6 billion of its massive foreign exchange reserves to invest in New Zealand assets, including potentially dairy farms.
Prevén la siembra para julio o agosto en el Valle Inferior. Después la soja. Serán pruebas experimentales y además, habrá ensayos con otras plantaciones en la estación del INTA.
A new Chinese-controlled town inside Laos where Laotians are not welcome.
Los legisladores justicialistas ratificaron su rechazo, ya expresado vía el proyecto ley 5/2011, al Acuerdo de Cooperación para el Proyecto de Inversión agro alimenticio celebrado por el Poder Ejecutivo rionegrino y empresas chinas.
- Agencia Periodística Patagónica
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17 May 2011
