Australia's Trade Minister Craig Emerson says plans to increase scrutiny on farmland investments would ruin any chance at all of a free-trade deal being struck with China.
- Wall Street Journal
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18 April 2013
The factory and farm are located in China's eastern Fujian and Jiangsu provinces. The farm will provide a "significant proportion" of the group's produce needs
Prime Minister John Key has told Chinese officials that foreign ownership of farmland is a sensitive issue in New Zealand.
Certaines sociétés chinoises achètent ou louent des terres en Afrique et même en Europe. Pour sécuriser ses approvisionnements, la Chine a aussi recours à la contractualisation. Quatre millions de tonnes de maïs ont ainsi été réservés sur deux ans avec l’Ukraine.
- Ouest France
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11 April 2013
China's ambassador says New Zealand has "over thought" his country's interest in acquiring land here, claiming other major farm purchases are unlikely.
- Fairfax News
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07 April 2013
The Chinese government has long encouraged businesses to invest in agriculture abroad, and Xi Jinping's first foreign trip as president in the past week involved visits to three African countries.
BRICS states, except Russia, are enhancing and facilitating land grabs abroad in a way that is inconsistent with their proclamations of sustainable development, cooperation solidarity, and respect of national sovereignty.
Report examines Brazil’s programme to transform Mozambique’s Nacala corridor, the Chinese Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre, and a private Chinese rice investment project in the Xai-Xai irrigation scheme.
- Future Agricultures
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26 Mar 2013
Leery of product safety in China, Zhu Zhangjin is urging farmers to invest abroad like he has
Malgré l'appétit des Chinois pour le vignoble français, les investisseurs étrangers et notamment les Britanniques désertent le marché du foncier rural, selon une note de conjoncture de la division AgriFrance de BNP-Paribas, publiée mercredi.
The African agriculture sector is showing signs of improvements attributed to BRICS investment flows in smaller agricultural projects, reversing the trend triggered by the global food crisis in 2008.
Des manifestations de paysans ont dégénéré cette semaine en Birmanie. Les affrontements entre les quelque 400 agriculteurs, qui battaient le pavé pour réclamer l’arrêt des expropriations de leurs terres, et la police, ont fait un mort et une cinquantaine de blessés.
