Gulf agribusiness companies found their panacea in Egypt, which is prioritizing investment in large-scale, modernized farming to export crops over pursuing strategic crop cultivation and traditional farming methods in the Nile Valley and Delta.
Gulf investment is one of the largest foreign capitals in Egypt's agribusiness sector and it owns companies that have controlling market shares of corporate food.
- Review of African Political Economy
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05 May 2019
The deal includes the construction of a new farm project of greenhouse vegetable production over an area of 600 hectares (6 square kilometers) in central Zambia's Mkushi district.
A group of companies controlled by one of Dubai’s richest families has signed a deal for a $1 billion dollar investment in a 77,000 sugar beet and grains farms in Minya, Egypt.
Le projet porte sur une superficie totale de 76 000 hectares et comprend la mise en place d’une plantation et d’une usine dotée d’une capacité annuelle de production de 1 million de tonnes de sucre et d'un coût de 450 millions $.
- Agence Ecofin
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24 January 2018
La Cellule de Réflexion de la Diaspora Tem en Allemagne dénonce l´injustice et soutient les fils et filles du Canton de Kadambara dans leur combat
- Ici Lomé
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16 November 2017
Arrests of some of Saudi Arabia's richest people includes two businessmen with large-scale farmland investments: Alwaleed bin Talal investing in Egypt and Mohammed Al Amoudi in Ethiopia.
- Bloomberg
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07 November 2017
Sudan wants to expand agricultural production and investments, which could benefit it as well as Egypt, but Cairo worries that such a development might threaten its supply of the Nile's water.
- AL-Monitor
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02 November 2017
Egypt and the Korea-Arab Society (KAS) signed a cooperation protocol to build a $10 billion integrated agricultural city in the North African country. The city will be stretched over an area of 300,000 feddans (126,000 ha) in the southeast part of the Qattara Depression.
- Arab Finance
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16 August 2017
Saudi-based Al Rajhi International for Investment company targets injecting 1.2 billion Egyptian pounds (US$135 million) to reclaim 75,000 feddans in Egypt's Toshka project until 2020.
- Amwal Alghad
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09 April 2016
The African Institute for Agrarian Studies brought Southern scholars, activists, practitioners, and farmers to Harare, Zimbabwe to learn from each other’s work and experiences to advance social justice projects for the rural global South.
The Egyptian-Sudanese Integration Company is implementing the Blue Nile State's Ad-Damazin project on an area of about 100,000 acres and a meat project in White Nile State.
- Egypt Independent
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11 December 2015