It may appear contradictory for the Japanese government to support aggressive investment in overseas land while seeking ways to restrict purchases by foreign interests at home.
- Japan Times
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18 December 2010
La japonesa Sojitz, especializada en comercio internacional de granos, iniciará plantaciones de soja y otros cultivos en Argentina con el fin de exportar a Asia
- Fortuna Web
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18 November 2010
Sojitz will lease 11,000 hectares of farmland cultivating soybeans, corn, wheat and other crops in the Pampas region and may expand to 200,000 hectares.
- Bloomberg
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17 November 2010
Translation of Document:Why We Oppose the Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI)
- La Via Campesina, FIAN, LRAN, GRAIN
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13 October 2010
L'idée qui germe au Japon de consacrer une partie des énormes réserves de change du pays à l'achat de matières premières industrielles est susceptible, si elle est appliquée, de provoquer des bouleversements économiques et financiers.
Foreign ownership of watersheds or agricultural land plays into the perennial food security fears that are common in a nation forced to import about 60 per cent of its food.
- The Australian
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08 October 2010
Major Japanese trading firms are cautious about Japan buying agricultural land overseas, growing food there and then importing it. One reason, it seems, is their past failures in the agriculture business.
- Asahi Shimbun
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27 September 2010
Brazil's essential role as a provider of food for the world's expanding population is at risk if the government makes good on threats to curtail foreign investment in farmland.
MT, SP e MS são os estados que cederam mais área para não-brasileiros
Le gouvernement du Brésil est en train d’étudier la possibilité d’interdire aux étrangers d’acheter de la terre brésilienne. Un échange avec le journaliste qui a dévoilé l'histoire.
- El Espectador
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24 June 2010
The government of Brazil is studying the possibility of prohibiting the purchase of land by foreigners. A discussion with the journalist who broke the news, Mauro Zanatto.
- El Espectador
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24 June 2010
Sólo en Mato Grosso, grupos argentinos como Los Grobo o El Tejar tienen más de 1 millón de hectáreas.
- El Espectador
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24 June 2010