• View of Ethiopia that is out of date
    • Financial Times
    • 11 Mar 2009

    "Huge tracts of unutilised agricultural land are available" writes the Ambassador of Ethiopia to the UK

  • Saudis get first taste of foreign harvest
    • Financial Times
    • 04 Mar 2009

    Saudi Arabia has announced the arrival of the first food crop harvested in Saudi-owned farms abroad, in a sign that the kingdom is moving faster than expected to outsource agricultural production.

  • The Environmental Cost of Euro-Arab Scramble for Africa
    • American Chronicle
    • 26 February 2009

    Reports indicate the growing Euro-Arab-Asian interest to buy land in Africa for the food security of their home population, not Africa´s. However, seldom do these reports link the the appetite for farmland and energy investment on the continent with the current global economic crises.

  • Saudis to invest $ 266m in Ethiopia and Sudan
    • Sudan Tribune
    • 18 February 2009

    A group of five Saudi Arabia business men have planned to invest 1 billion Saudi riyals (some $ 266.6 million) in agricultural projects in Sudan and Ethiopia within the coming few years, Pan Arab daily Asharq Al Awsat reports.

  • Saudis to invest in Ethiopia and Sudan
    • Arab News
    • 11 February 2009

    A group of Saudi businessmen have planned to invest over SR1 billion [USD267m] in agricultural projects in Ethiopia and Sudan on a staggered schedule within next few years.

  • Food: The big land sell-off
    • African Business
    • 07 February 2009

    With vast tracts of land being sold in Madagascar, and Sudan and other African governments actively seeking investors in agricultural land, are we witnessing a neo-colonial land grab or will the investment result in greater food productivity to the long-term benefit of recipient nations?

  • Saudi Gets First Rice Produced by Locals Abroad
    • Reuters
    • 27 January 2009

    Saudi Arabia, one of the world's biggest rice importers, has received the first batch of rice to be produced abroad by local investors, state news agency SPA reported on Monday.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Projet de loi portant création de la Société djiboutienne de sécurité alimentaire (SDSA)
    • République de Djibouti
    • 11 January 2009

    Sur les concessions proprement dites, le Soudan a mis à la disposition de notre pays 4200 hectares ce projet sera financé par la Banque Islamique (BI), quant à l’Ethiopie, elle devra délivrer 5000 hectares mais par étapes et cette partie du projet sera financé par la Banque Africaine de Développement (BAD).

  • Notes to broadcasters on foreign-owned farmland
    • Farm Radio Weekly
    • 22 December 2008

    Dependence on oil imports may be influencing the Ethiopian government’s decision to lease farmland to Saudi Arabia

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