Japan

This joint report from Re:Common, SIF and TANY takes the reader through five regions of Madagascar exposing the consequences and impacts of six land grab projects led by foreign investors.

Las organizaciones de la sociedad civil japonesas apelan al Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (MOFA) y a la Agencia japonesa de cooperación Internacional (JICA) para que suspendan inmediatamente y reformulen el programa ProSAVANA

Tokyo-based Sojitz says it will invest in Brazil's Cantagalo General Grains SA, which farms 150,000 hectares and collects 2 million metric tons of grains a year.

Five Japanese nongovernmental organizations have called for a review of a Japanese government-backed large-scale farm development project in Mozambique.

We, civil society organizations in Japan, call on the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Japan International Cooperation Agency for the immediate suspension and fundamental review of the ProSAVANA program.

Groups say proponents of large-scale agribusiness project are using manipulative and intimidating actions to divide, compartmentalise and weaken Mozambican civil society.

We, civil society organizations in Japan, call on the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), for the immediate suspension and fundamental review of the ProSAVANA program.

日本・ブラジル・モザンビーク政府の大規模農業開発事業「ProSAVANA-JBM」に関する緊急声明〜事業の早急なる中断と抜本的な見直しの要請〜

Today foreigners hold less than 2% of all agricultural land in the US. However, this share is growing as more foreign pension funds and others look to cash in on a boom in farmland values and commodity prices.

Dr. Sayaka Funada-Classen discusses the issue of “responsible research” and the ProSAVANA project in Mozambique in the context of the current post-Fukushima discussions in Japan and the work of the scholar Ruth First.

NHK World video report looks at Itochu's efforts to grow soybeans for export in Mozambique in collaboration with JICA.

TBS News visits Mozambique to look into why farmers are opposed to Japan's agricultural development programme with Brazil.