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La consigna del festival tiene que ver con rechazar el acuerdo agroalimentario firmado con China por el actual gobernador Miguel Saiz, en el cual se le entregarán a la empresa Heilongjiang Beidahuang 320.000 hectáreas de tierras.
Asked whether cases of foreign governments buying large areas of farmland in other countries concerns him, Greg Page, CEO of Carrgill, answers: "It does because I think the sociology of that will be difficult. From the standpoint of raising more calories more quickly, having large concentrations of capital coming into an area and bringing best practices is the quickest way to raise more food. Is it the best way from a long-term sociology standpoint, I think that's a much more difficult question to answer." As for companies acquiring farmland, Page says: "No company's big enough to be a police force onto itself."
Gilson Pinesso of Brazil's Pinesso Group is bringing his model of large-scale monocuture plantations to Sudan and Mozambique where land is fertile and cheap.
The US just held a year long series of antitrust hearings to learn more and do something about corporate concentration in US food and agriculture
Chinese Export-Import Bank is in talks witht eh Government of the Ukraine for its involvement in the financial operation of the land market in the Ukraine.
Over breakfast (September 24, 2011): Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala, left, animatedly discusses prospects of agricultural trade with China while Mr. Sun Zhengcai, secretary of the Jilin Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and former Agriculture Minister listens intently. (Source: Philippine Dept of Agriculture)
Families displaced by the floods wait under a tree in this 2008 file photo in Mutarrara, in Mozambique’s Tete Province. (REUTERS/Thierry Delvigne-Jean/UNICEF/Handout)
