Developing agriculture in Africa has become even more urgent since the United Nations warned in a report earlier this month that governments must increase investment in agriculture because a billion people around the world are going hungry in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Foreign affiliates now account for one-tenth of world GDP and one-third of world exports, the agency's World Investment Report said.

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Their World Investment Report put China in the No. 1 spot for FDI over the next two years and beyond, followed by the U.S., India, Indonesia and Brazil.

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"Calpers will be sending very strong signals to those countries that all is not right and there are concerns and that is a good thing to happen, " Tessa Tennant, who recently set up a lobby group in Asia, the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment told the BBC's World Business Report.

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