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Sacks of freshly produced raw sugar are lined up at the Cambodian plant in which SET-listed Khon Kaen Sugar Industry Plc (KSL) is a jointventure partner. The plant last year became the first new sugar mill to begin operating in the country in more than 40 years.
Sacks of freshly produced raw sugar are lined up at the Cambodian plant in which SET-listed Khon Kaen Sugar Industry Plc (KSL) is a jointventure partner. The plant last year became the first new sugar mill to begin operating in the country in more than 40 years.
"I believe it is possible that these investments do have good effects by increasing local productivity and what have you. My experience in Cambodia didn't really show that but I'm going to Ethiopia with an open mind."
“If you allow foreign investors to perform agriculture, because they have enough capital than the locals, they will overshadow local farmers and as a result Tanzanians will continue to swim on poverty as their products won’t compete in the market.”
"An increase in GDP tells us nothing about the human and environmental sacrifices made in realising growth or whether benefits have been fairly distributed."
A Burundian cyclist who makes a living from transporting goods to Burundi's capital Bujumbura for sale steers his heavily loaded bike downhill sometimes negotiating hairpin turns at speeds that can reach 80 km per hour on 11 May 2010 near Bujumbura.
“While the overall figures for agribusiness are low they are skewed by not looking at the size of agribusinesses,” Mr Cobb said.
Even though the ABS found low levels of foreign ownership of Australian farmland, farmers are still concerned. (Tim Wimbourne)
An Egyptian demands a higher minimum wage in Cairo on May 2, 2010. In the seven months leading up to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation in February, the trading price of wheat more than doubled, as nearly two dozen countries restricted food exports and choked global food supplies. (Photo by Khalee Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)
Workers at the farm of Karuturi Global Ltd, an Indian firm, in Bako, central Ethiopia, in November 2009. Barry Malone/Reuters
Mackay Canegrowers deputy chairman and Plane Creek group chairman Kevin Borg would prefer to see Australian companies retain ownership in the sugar industry but knows the reality that some foreign investment has been needed. Lee Constable
