China rejected claims by a German official that it has been buying up land in the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa, saying the allegations are "completely unfounded" and have "ulterior motives".
Selon l'institut d'Oakland, environ 200.000 personnes pourraient être déplacées des 350.000 hectares loués dans le sud-ouest de l'Ethiopie depuis 2008.
Le chargé des affaires africaines du gouvernement allemand, Günther Nooke, met en cause dans un entretien publié jeudi l'achat de terres par la Chine dans la famine qui touche actuellement l'Ethiopie.
The studies that we have seen can prove no link between land purchases and food security, says German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Personal Assitant on African Affairs.
More Southland land has been sold to overseas investors in the past year than at any other time during the past six years.
Since the food and financial crisis in 2008, a race for arable land has started worldwide. States, corporations, banks and funds of rich countries buy up large chunks of land to produce agrofuels and grow crops for food - or just to speculate.
O governo prepara a flexibilização de tais restrições, já que o objetivo é apenas barrar movimento especulativo com a terra brasileira, como a compra de lotes por fundos de investimento ou investidores que não têm foco na produção.
The company is currently looking at concluding another deal in Africa as well as other opportunities on behalf of regional investors for large scale production of crops in areas such as Africa, Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
German investors have splashed out more than $100 million in a month buying thousands of hectares of dairying land in the South Island.
German investors have bought 11 dairy farms covering more than 3,600 hectares in New Zealand's South Island
Is the Sunshine Coast at risk of losing the farm to foreign interests?
Some Danish farmland investors are quitting the UK after seeing land prices rise here and tumble at home over the past few years.
