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King Abdullah Initiative for Saudi agricultural investment abroad
- Saudi Arabia Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- 26 January 2009
Planning these investments was carried out according to the following agricultural investment principles and criteria...
Saudi King’s commitment to help Mindanao secured
- Business Mirror
- 26 January 2009
Speaker Prosopero Nograles expressed optimism that the Philippines will be able to provide the food requirements of the Kingdom through possible Saudi investments in Mindanao.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques receives Minister of Commerce and Industry
- S.Arabia MoFA
- 25 January 2009
King Abdullah received today Saudi Arabia's Minister of Commerce and Industry accompanied by two Saudi businessmen Mohammad Hussein Al-Amoudi and Abdullah Hassan Al-Masri on the occasion of the arrival of the earliest produce of their rice to the Kingdom.
Al-Amoudi plans largest agro investment
- Addis Fortune
- 24 January 2009
In the largest single agricultural investment, Ethiopia’s richest man Sheik Mohammed Hussein Ali Al-Amoudi, joined the bio-fuel sector in a joint venture with Jemal Ahmed, one of the biggest edible and palm oil importers in the country.
Pakistan’s food insecurity
- Daily times
- 20 January 2009
For the practical realisation of the goal of food sovereignty that has been eluding our nation since the time of independence, the importance of genuine agrarian reform and peasants’ rights cannot be underestimated.
East Africa-Middle East invest in farmland
- Farming UK
- 16 January 2009
To lure investment dollars, the Sudan government has removed import duties on agricultural equipment being imported into the country.
Un Chinois à Dakar: M. Riping, roi du sésame
- Le Nouvel Observateur
- 23 December 2008
Pour la République populaire, il est un héros du programme Go Abroad. Sa mission, hautement stratégique : investir les terres africaines pour y cultiver la petite graine magique
Insecurity drives farm purchases abroad
- The Christian Science Monitor
- 22 December 2008
Land acquisitions abroad are the only viable response, Mohammed Raouf, program manager of environment research at the Gulf Research Center, and others say.
Foreign investors may get legal cover
- The News (Pakistan)
- 20 December 2008
The Pakistan government is all set to provide legal cover through parliament to protect foreign investors and their investment in all sectors particularly agriculture. “We are in talks with investors from Gulf states, particularly Saudi Arabia, for investment in corporate farming. Investors will be ensured repatriation of 100 per cent crop yield to their countries even in case Pakistan faces food deficit,” Federal Investment Minister Waqar Ahmad Khan said.
Arabs to buy WA land?
- Farm Weekly
- 17 December 2008
Agriculture Department denies a recent WA trade delegation visit to several Middle Eastern countries was to promote selling WA agricultural land for grain and livestock.
Mitsui May Boost Farm Investment Overseas on Demand
- Bloomberg
- 16 December 2008
Mitsui & Co., Japan's second-largest trading company, may increase investment in farming overseas to secure food supplies as competition from China, the biggest grain consumer, intensifies. The company is seeking new targets after taking a 39.35 percent stake in Multigrain AG, which produces soybeans in Brazil, the world's second-largest grower.
Minister backs Arab farm deals
- The West
- 16 December 2008
Agriculture Minister Terry Redman says Western Australia should embrace moves by Arab interests in the Middle East to buy prime Wheatbelt farmland to secure their future food supplies. Two groups from the Middle East are due to visit the State early next year as they consider investments of up to $1 billion in cropping, sheep and dairy production in WA.