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Easier farmland purchases for foreigners could threaten Czech farmers
- Radio Praha
- 22 February 2007
The Czech government has recently backed proposed legislation that should make it easier for foreigners from EU countries to buy Czech farmland.
16.000 hectares de terres agricoles mises en valeur par des investisseurs saoudiens au Niger
- APA
- 03 January 2007
Le gouvernement nigérien et trois groupes saoudiens ont signé un contrat de concessions rurales portant sur la mise en valeur d’une superficie de 15.922 hectares de terres agricoles dans la région de Dosso
Dominion domination: The scandal of Yala Swamp
- Ujamaa Center
- 16 December 2006
“MPs want ActionAid to keep off”, screams the caption of a story in the East African Standard of January 3, 2006. The story is attributed to MPs Oburu Odinga and Ayiecho Olweny who claim that the NGO is inciting residents of trouble ridden Yala Swamp rice scheme in which American investor Dominion Group of Companies has been embroiled in a tussle with the community over issues of land dispossession
Wikileaks: The great land grab
- Wikileaks
- 30 June 2006
"Economic development is spurring a land grab in broad areas of the country, and the poorest Lao are paying the price," reports the US Embassy in Vientiane
Japanese firms tap China's farming industry
- Gov.cn
- 03 June 2006
Three Japanese firms, including two on the Fortune magazine's world top 500 list, have jointly leased 100 hectares of farmland in east China's Shandong Province, to become the first foreign investors in China's farming industry.
Bail emphytéotique entre le Cameroun et SOSUCAM
- 20 April 2006
Contrat signé avril 2006, concernant 12.000 ha. Sosucam est une filiale de Somdiaa, détenu par la société française Vilgrain.
3,000 Chinese farmers to farm abroad
- China Daily
- 18 December 2003
Hundreds of farmers in Northwest China are expected to toil the soil in the neighboring Republic of Kazakhstan next spring. "We have signed a deal with Kazakhstan to rent 7,000 hectares of land in Alakol county for use for 10 years," a local agricultural official said.
Fruitful agricultural cooperation
- China.org.cn
- 10 December 2003
In other African countries, including Ghana, South Africa and Togo, the China State Farm and Agribusiness Corporation (CSFAC) has founded 11 agricultural production, processing and sales projects, and runs a total of 16,000 hectares of farmlands
Syria-Sudan MOU
- Financial Express
- 22 May 2002
Special Agricultural Consultancy between the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic and the Government of the Republic of Sudan (May 2002)
Japan's new farm belt
- New York Times
- 14 May 1989
From the California wine country to the Florida citrus groves and Montana ranches, a wave of Japanese investment is sweeping through American agriculture and food processing.