The authors found reports of 86 Chinese agriculture projects covering 9 million hectares of land in developing countries. They were able to confirm the existence of 55 projects covering 4.9 million hectares.
In debate over large scale investments in agriculture in Australia, there are some broader issues about foreign investment that don’t seem to get talked about enough.
The sale of Cubbie Station to a Chinese-led consortium has divided Australia on the issue of foreign investment.
Large-scale agricultural in the developing world have received significant attention in recent months and years. This articles looks at the dynamics of the Ethiopian context and policy recommendations in moving forward.
- Logan Cochrane
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01 October 2012
A delegation of peasants from Niassa recently travelled to The Netherlands and met lawmakers, students and investors in the Chikweti plantations, including the Dutch national pension fund ABP, the biggest investor in the project.
- Water Channel
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01 October 2012
Philippines company will contribute its hybrid rice varieties to the venture while the Myanmar partner will provide the land for production and the Thai partner will handle global marketing.
- Philippine Inquirer
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30 September 2012
Government of South Korea's 10 year plan for expanding Korean agribusiness outside of Korea through overseas agricultural development.
- Rep. of Korea Gov.
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29 September 2012
African agriculture has a big investment problem: lots of private equity interest but few opportunities because most farms and companies are too small to absorb the cash or provide attractive returns.
- Reuters
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29 September 2012
Foreigners are buying up prime agricultural land, but proposed legislation could curtail the booming trade.
- Al Jazeera
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29 September 2012
Public-private partnership program envisions letting investors farm up to 4 million hectares of currently unused government land for up to 50 years in large-scale 400,000-hectare projects.
- Kyiv Post
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28 September 2012
Ethiopia announced on Friday plans to lease 100,000 hectares of land both to local and foreign investors, despite recent reports that foreign investors were grabbing large chunks of land.
- The Africa Report
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28 September 2012
Olam International, an India-based multinational agribusiness company, is developing an outgrower scheme on a giant 20-year, 850,000 hectare concession it has secured not far from the port of Beira, Mozambique.