King Abdullah Initiative for Saudi agricultural investment abroad
    Planning these investments was carried out according to the following agricultural investment principles and criteria...
    • Saudi Arabia Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    • 26 January 2009
    Saudi King’s commitment to help Mindanao secured
    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.
    • Business Mirror
    • 26 January 2009
    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques receives Minister of Commerce and Industry
    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.
    • S.Arabia MoFA
    • 25 January 2009
    Al-Amoudi plans largest agro investment
    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.
    • Addis Fortune
    • 24 January 2009
    Pakistan’s food insecurity
    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.
    • Daily times
    • 20 January 2009
    East Africa-Middle East invest in farmland
    To lure investment dollars, the Sudan government has removed import duties on agricultural equipment being imported into the country.
    • Farming UK
    • 16 January 2009
    Un Chinois à Dakar: M. Riping, roi du sésame
    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
    • Le Nouvel Observateur
    • 23 December 2008
    Insecurity drives farm purchases abroad
    Land acquisitions abroad are the only viable response, Mohammed Raouf, program manager of environment research at the Gulf Research Center, and others say.
    • The Christian Science Monitor
    • 22 December 2008
    Foreign investors may get legal cover
    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.
    • The News (Pakistan)
    • 20 December 2008
    Arabs to buy WA land?
    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.
    • Farm Weekly
    • 17 December 2008
    Mitsui May Boost Farm Investment Overseas on Demand
    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.
    • Bloomberg
    • 16 December 2008
    Minister backs Arab farm deals
    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.
    • The West
    • 16 December 2008
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