• Laos and the Resource Curse
    • Asian Sentinel
    • 21 October 2010

    China and other nations are making Laos an industrial farm, to the detriment of its ecology

  • Laos gives green light to foreign rice farmers
    • Vientiane Times
    • 22 June 2010

    The government will allow foreign companies and individuals to invest in rice cultivation in Laos, Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh announced on Friday

  • Kuwait backs rice cultivation study in Laos
    • Vientiane Times
    • 07 June 2010

    Kuwait has provided US$350,000 to the Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to study the suitability of extending irrigation so rice can be grown for export to Kuwait.

  • PE firm rethinks Laos/Cambodia fund
    • Financial Times
    • 18 April 2010

    FIDP has launched a Cambodia and Laos fund, “an extended China play” that will focus largely on agriculture, seeking to benefit from China’s desire for food security.

  • Laos, Mongolia agree to agriculture cooperation
    • Vientiane Times
    • 22 Mar 2010

    The Lao side will consider a request by Mongolia to seek agricultural land of up to 10,000 hectares to produce rice and other crops. Also under consideration is a proposal by Mongolia to develop sheep farming in Laos.

  • Catching Cambodia on the cusp of development
    • Financial Times
    • 14 February 2010

    Leopard Capital's second Cambodian fund is expected to continue investment in agriculture, as well as potentially including investment in Laos.

  • GTZ/BMZ: Foreign direct investment in land in developing countries
    • GTZ
    • 12 February 2010

    On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the GTZ have published a new study on FDI in land in developing countries.

  • Khon Kaen Sugar set to double sugarcane output
    • Bangkok Post
    • 27 January 2010

    Khon Kaen Sugar Industry Plc aims to invest about 15 billion baht over the next five years to double its sugarcane output in Thailand and continuously expand its presence in Cambodia and Laos.

  • Korea’s overseas development backfires
    • Korea Times
    • 04 December 2009

    That Korea is no longer "importing" this food that is being grown overseas implies that this land is effectively Korean. This amounts to agricultural imperialism.

  • Extraterritoriality - Foreign Concessions: the Past and Future of a Form of Shared Sovereignty
    • EspacesTemps.net
    • 23 November 2009

    China has now taken on a leading role in promoting modernization through zones of exception, not only in China but also outside it.

  • Kuwait firm eyes farmland in Southeast Asia
    • Reuters
    • 07 October 2009

    "Our proposition to the governments is that we can help them develop the infrastructure and develop the farmland and we will then take a share of the produce," says KCIC

  • Korea shifting to agricultural aid in resource diplomacy
    • Joong Ang Daily
    • 25 September 2009

    The Korea Rural Community Corporation, under the Agriculture Ministry, said it is also in talks with other resource-rich countries about deals in exchange for support for the construction of agricultural infrastructure or farms. Among the negotiating partners mentioned were Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Senegal and Mongolia.

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