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Gulf states look to harvest food from investment in Asia
- AFP
- 20 July 2008
One issue reportedly delaying UAE investment in Pakistan is the Gulf state appearing to want “blanket exemption” from Islamabad’s agricultural export policies.
UAE to invest in Kazakh agriculture
- Financial Times
- 16 July 2008
The United Arab Emirates is seeking to invest in agricultural projects in Kazakhstan as part of its efforts to secure food supplies.
UAE looks abroad for food security
- Gulf News
- 09 July 2008
The UAE is actively looking at acquiring farmland in Vietnam, Cambodia, Africa and South America in an effort to ensure the availability of food stocks, according to the UAE Minister of Economy.
Arabs diversifying overseas investment
- Dawn
- 23 June 2008
Globalisation has taken yet another twist with some Middle Eastern countries deciding to grow their crops in other countries.
Gulf states seeking food security
- Dawn
- 23 June 2008
The Dubai-based think-tank Gulf Research Centre, in its food inflation report released last month, noted that agriculture production in the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) countries is on the decline, and its exposure to unstable global food supplies would increase in the future. It called on the GCC to develop links with countries rich in arable land.
Leasing lands in other countries to boost food production in Bahrain proposed
- Khaleej Times
- 22 June 2008
Leasing farms on contract in Arab countries such as Iraq, Egypt and Sudan might be an option to deal with severe shortage of agriculture lands and water in Bahrain.
UAE ‘should invest in foreign farms’
- The National
- 21 June 2008
The UAE and its food-importing neighbours are “particularly vulnerable” to spiralling costs and should make significant investments in “contract farming” in Africa and Asia, says the UN’s Gulf food chief, Dr Kayan Jaff.
Saudis plan to grow crops overseas
- Financial Times
- 13 June 2008
Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans to develop large-scale overseas agricultural projects to secure food supplies, revealing that Riyadh is in discussions with Ukraine, Pakistan, Sudan, Turkey and Egypt.
Countries Are Renting Farmland Abroad
- US News and World Report
- 12 June 2008
As food crisis worsens, some nations are desperate for arable land
High food prices make oil sheikhs turn to farming
- Economic Times
- 02 June 2008
To break the runaway inflation that is fuelled by high food costs, Gulf rulers have a new strategy: they are buying unused agricultural land in poor countries like Pakistan, Thailand and Sudan, and becoming large-scale farmers.
Farm projects in fertile Arab nations can cut GCC gap
- Emirates Business 24/7
- 28 May 2008
Gulf oil producers need to set up agricultural projects in fertile Arab countries to achieve self-sufficiency and to bridge a massive farm deficit that exceeded $12 billion (Dh44bn) in 2006, a Gulf group said yesterday.
Food crisis may divide Middle East's oil haves, have-nots
- Bloomberg
- 17 May 2008
“Buying farms is not a bad thing,” Panos Konandreas, acting director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Geneva, said in a telephone interview. “If you are like Saudi Arabia and have all the resources in the world, you can help farms optimize their strategies and there will be more production.”