How is lending land out to be farmed any different from giving out land to foreign govt or companies to set up factories, real estate ventures, and massive call center’s?!?!
Atleast in this case, we have investment that employs a much larger proportion of the countries work force then a car factory would.
And this kind of invesment is far less fickle. Car factories and call cetres can close down if the economic environment is not suitable, but people have to eat, so I doubt such investors will be scared off or forced to leave by a bad economy etc.