Kazakhstan

China's global hunt for food security
- Vancouver Sun
- 03 February 2010
Many see the desire for Kazakhstani agricultural land as another tentacle of Beijing's creeping imperialism
Kazakhs protest against China's growing influence
- Reuters
- 30 January 2010
"They (the government) borrowed $13 billion from China and now they want to pay it back with our land," Bolat Abilov, a leader of the opposition party Azat, said at the rally. “No Chinese soya beans on the Kazakh land!” shouted one protester.
Kazakhs protest against China farmland lease
- BBC
- 30 January 2010
Several hundred people have gathered in the Kazakh city of Almaty to protest against what they call "Chinese expansionism".
Kazakh PM defends growing links with China
- Financial Times
- 28 December 2009
Mr Massimov said Kazakhstan was negotiating an agreement with China to fund farming projects in Kazakhstan. “We are not giving China any land. The land code forbids it. But if we have a buyer [for crops], be it China or Arabia, then let’s sell,” he said.
Glencore bond an 'opportunity', Chinese group says
- Agrimoney
- 24 December 2009
Glencore's agricultural interests include 300,000 hectares of land in Australia, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, Russia and Ukraine.
Kazakhstan not to lease China farmland but will create joint agricultural manufacture
- Kazakhstan Today
- 15 December 2009
The head of state at the last session of the Council of Foreign Investors informed that China had requested to lease 1 million hectares of Kazakh farmland for cultivation of rape and soya. According to A. Evniev, "It is not a lease, it is a question of joint manufacture. In this case, it is soya and later it will be corn and rape."
Kazakhstan not to sell land to China - PM Karim Massimov
- Kazinform
- 14 December 2009
Kazakhstan will not "sell" land to China, Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov has announced
Kazakhs protest alleged Chinese plan to rent farmland
- RFE/RL
- 14 December 2009
Dozens of Kazakh activists staged a protest today in front of the Chinese Embassy in Almaty against the planned leasing of Kazakh land to China, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
Funds: Eastern Europe the focus for "Green Revolution II" investors
- Business New Europe
- 05 October 2009
It isn't often you sit down with a fund manager and begin the interview by discussing their new film.
Saudi private $533 mln agri-business firm eyes 2010 start
- Reuters
- 09 September 2009
A group of private Saudi investors said they plan to start a company with $533.3 million capital that will invest in farm projects mainly abroad. First projects may be with Ghana, Turkey and Kazakhstan.
Foreign investors snap up African farmland
- Der Spiegel
- 30 July 2009
Because of the political sensitivity of the modern-day land grab, it is often only the country's head of state who knows the details. Der Spiegel investigates.
Food security fears drive fund farm investments
- Reuters
- 02 July 2009
The emergence of the farmland asset class is not without pitfalls with the provision of food always highly political and a tentative global economic recovery potentially threatened by the H1N1 flu pandemic, fund managers said.