• Sudan: It's business time in Juba
    • RNW
    • 14 October 2011

    A group of twenty Dutch companies visited Juba this week, looking for business opportunities. In the South Sudanese capital they bumped into a 50-member strong delegation from Japan, who was there for exactly the same purpose. Meanwhile, the Indians are on their way.

  • Pakistan offers free farmland to Japanese tsunami victims
    • The News
    • 24 July 2011

    Pakistan is ready to offer free agriculture land to Japanese farmers who lost their crops and land in the March earthquake and tsunami, Tariq Puri, chief executive of the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan said in a meeting with Japanese officials.

  • Asia leads the charge in Aussie land grab
    • ANA
    • 02 July 2011

    Asian investors have overtaken Europeans as the biggest buyers of Australian land, a snapshot of foreign acquisitions reveals.

  • International group probes alleged land-grab by foreign firms
    • Inquirer
    • 06 June 2011

    An international fact-finding team is in the country to investigate the alleged land-grabbing by Philippine, Japanese and Taiwanese companies of some 11,000 hectares from indigenous peoples in Isabela to build the biggest bio-ethanol project in the Philippines.

  • In Japanese It's time to outlaw land grabbing, not to make it "responsible"!
    • It's time to outlaw land grabbing, not to make it "responsible"!
    • 26 April 2011

    Translation of It's time to outlaw land grabbing, not to make it "responsible"! by Via Campesina

  • Philippine rebels accuse Japan fruit exporter of land grabbing
    • Mindanao Examiner
    • 12 April 2011

    Philippine communist rebels on Tuesday accused a Japanese subsidiary of grabbing lands from local farmers in Mindanao.

  • In Japanese Dakar Appeal against the land grab
    • Dakar Appeal against the land grab
    • 09 Mar 2011

    Translation of Dakar Appeal against the land grab

  • El costo de un mal negocio
    • Juventud Rebelde
    • 19 February 2011

    La explosiva convergencia de la crisis alimentaria y financiera de 2008 desencadenó una nueva carrera por la apropiación de tierras africanas, que se mantiene hasta hoy. Las corporaciones de alimentos y los inversionistas privados buscan arrancar su tajada

  • Japan, Ukraine eye investment, technology sharing in agriculture
    • Kyodo
    • 19 January 2011

    Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara is eager to promote Japanese investment in the Ukraine farm sector to expand agricultural production in the country as part of Tokyo’s policy of securing food supply, according to the Ministry.

  • Induk KUD & investor asing rintis perkebunan
    • Bisnis Indonesia
    • 19 January 2011

    Induk Koperasi Unit Desa (Induk KUD) bersama sejumlah investor dari sejumlah negara akan menandatangani kesepakatan kerja sama (MoU) untuk mengeksplorasi tanaman kelapa sawit, jarak dan singkong.

  • Mitsui toma controle da Multigrain
    • Valor Econômico
    • 14 January 2011

    A japonesa Mitsui confirmou na quinta-feira que fechou acordo para comprar, por US$ 225 milhões, a participação de 44,2% que a cooperativa americana CHS tem na trading Multigrain

  • Mitsui to pay 40 billion yen for Brazil company, Nikkei reports
    • Bloomberg
    • 12 January 2011

    Mitsui plans to buy 44.2% of Brazilian grain broker Multigrain SA, who owns in excess of 100,000 ha of farmland, equal to 2% of the total cultivated land of Japan

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