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Down on the farm, Saudi Arabia has a $9.8bn hole to fill
- AGBI
- 28 November 2024
After years investing in farms overseas, the Saudi government is now stepping up efforts to attract foreign investors to its domestic agriculture sector
Arizona to prosecute Saudi company over water use
- Arabian Gulf Business Insight
- 14 November 2024
The attorney general of the US state of Arizona is set to launch legal proceeding in the next two weeks against the Saudi dairy company Almarai over groundwater pumping on two farms in the state.
The global race for water in the Arizona desert
- Mother Jones
- 08 June 2024
This week's episode of Reveal looks at how Arizona pension managers fueled a crisis by investing in an agribusiness deal that depleted local water supplies.
No, the Saudis haven’t stopped pumping Arizona groundwater
- Arizona Capitol Times
- 28 Mar 2024
The Butler Valley leases terminated by Arizona's governor only amount to about one quarter of Fondomonte’s total farm holdings in Arizona prior to October. Besides the 3500 acres that the company leased from the state, it privately controls almost 10,000 acres more further south and closer to Vicksburg.
Invitation to Saudi company to invest in corporate farming pick up pace
- Profit
- 10 October 2023
The Special Investment Facilitation Center has asked the Ministry of National Food Security and Research for an update on the invitation sent to the Almarai company of Saudi Arabia to invest in farming in Pakistan.
In Arizona, fresh scrutiny of Saudi-owned farm's water use
- Associated Press
- 28 April 2023
Worsening drought has focused new attention on a Saudi-owned dairy company and whether Arizona should be doing more to protect its groundwater resources.
Inside Saudi company’s sweet water deal in Arizona
- 12 News
- 13 June 2022
The Arizona Republic’s Rob O’Dell explains why a Saudi Arabian company’s deal for Arizona water raises questions for taxpayers, water users, the Legislature and the governor.
Saudi Arabia: Food security is a priority
- Arab News
- 28 Mar 2021
The Public Investment Fund has transferred its ownership stakes in Almarai, the National Agricultural Development Company, and the Saudi Fisheries Company to the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC).
«L’appel à Almarai semble être plutôt une démarche politicienne»
- El Watan
- 09 Mar 2020
L’invitation officielle adressée au groupe saoudien Almarai d’investir en Algérie fait partie de toutes celles qu’on avait engagées en grande pompe et qui se sont évaporées instantanément pour avoir été engagées à travers un marché de dupes.
Who keeps buying California's scarce water? Saudi Arabia
- Guardian
- 25 Mar 2019
Saudi-based Almarai owns 15,000 acres of an irrigated valley – but what business does a foreign food production company have drawing resources from a US desert?
Why Saudi Arabia bought 14,000 acres of US farm land
- CS Monitor
- 28 Mar 2016
The Middle Eastern kingdom needs hay for its 170,000 cows. So, it's buying up farmland for the water-chugging crop in the drought-stricken American Southwest.
Saudi dairy company Almarai buys land in California to grow fodder
- Reuters
- 10 January 2016
Almarai, which already owns land in Arizona, said the purchase was part of efforts to secure high-quality hay from outside Saudi Arabia, in line with Saudi government policy.