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China's long march to Africa
- BBC
- 29 November 2007
“There’s no harm in allowing [Chinese] farmers to leave the country to become farm owners [in Africa],” the head of China’s Export-Import Bank, Li Ruogu, says.
Libya Eyes Cultivating Wheat in Ukraine
- Alarab Online
- 21 November 2007
Libya plans to invest in the production of wheat in Ukraine on a surface of 100.000 hectares, in order to provide for the totality of its requirements
Japan Mitsui affiliate buys Brazil farmland
- Reuters
- 13 November 2007
Brazilian grain broker Multigrain SA has bought 100,000 hectares of farmland and related operations in Brazil to secure a stable supply of soybeans and other farm produce, Japan's Mitsui & Co Ltd, a part owner of holding company Multigrain AG, said on Tuesday.
Western Australia: Big money to buy up the family farm
- YouTube
- 25 October 2007
Agricultural land trusts and corporate players may take a bigger chunk of Australia's arable land with global market dynamics making rural land purchases more attractive investments.
Seedlings of evil growing in Myanmar
- Asia Times
- 23 August 2007
A military-driven Chinese hybrid rice-for-opium crop-substitution program in the northern part of Myanmar's Shan state has resulted in four consecutive years of poor harvests and driven many ethnic-minority farmers into heavy debt or out of rice farming altogether.
China, Mozambique: old friends, new business
- ISN Security Watch
- 13 August 2007
In 2006, Beijing and Maputo signed a memorandum of understanding concerning the creation of a massive agricultural project in the Zambezi river valley area.
To Fortify China, Soybean Harvest Grows in Brazil
- New York Times
- 06 April 2007
China’s global scramble for natural resources is leading to a transformation of agricultural trading around the world.
Easier farmland purchases for foreigners could threaten Czech farmers
- Radio Praha
- 22 February 2007
The Czech government has recently backed proposed legislation that should make it easier for foreigners from EU countries to buy Czech farmland.
Dominion domination: The scandal of Yala Swamp
- Ujamaa Center
- 16 December 2006
“MPs want ActionAid to keep off”, screams the caption of a story in the East African Standard of January 3, 2006. The story is attributed to MPs Oburu Odinga and Ayiecho Olweny who claim that the NGO is inciting residents of trouble ridden Yala Swamp rice scheme in which American investor Dominion Group of Companies has been embroiled in a tussle with the community over issues of land dispossession
Wikileaks: The great land grab
- Wikileaks
- 30 June 2006
"Economic development is spurring a land grab in broad areas of the country, and the poorest Lao are paying the price," reports the US Embassy in Vientiane
Japanese firms tap China's farming industry
- Gov.cn
- 03 June 2006
Three Japanese firms, including two on the Fortune magazine's world top 500 list, have jointly leased 100 hectares of farmland in east China's Shandong Province, to become the first foreign investors in China's farming industry.
3,000 Chinese farmers to farm abroad
- China Daily
- 18 December 2003
Hundreds of farmers in Northwest China are expected to toil the soil in the neighboring Republic of Kazakhstan next spring. "We have signed a deal with Kazakhstan to rent 7,000 hectares of land in Alakol county for use for 10 years," a local agricultural official said.