UAE

World Bank, Japan agency offer farm loan for Philippines
- WSJ
- 18 May 2015
A $250 million loan package is being prepared to support foreign investment in farms in Mindanao
Una mostra sul «land grabbing», ultima versione del neocolonialismo
- Corriere della Sera
- 05 May 2015
Il land grabbing si presenta insomma come un’ultima versione del neocolonialismo, che priva della loro terra i pastori e i piccoli coltivatori locali, l’accaparramento dell’acqua e la perdita della biodiversità. La ricerca si è concentrata sull’Etiopia, l’Arabia Saudita e gli Emirati Arabi: la fotografia è accompagnata da ampi testi esplicativi
Ghana Trade Minister leads team to investment forum in Dubai
- Spy Ghana
- 09 April 2015
The meeting brought together Economic and Trade Ministers from the UAE, Ghana, Morocco, Portugal, Spain and Macedonia to discuss how direct investment could be channeled into agribusiness to achieve food security and prosperity.
UAE’s food imports to rise to $400b in 10 years
- Gulf News
- 31 Mar 2015
The UAE import 85 per cent of its food, and the government plans to develop farmland in other countries — due to the lack of arable lands in the UAE — to secure food supplies amid increasing demand.
Arab businessmen reaffirm the success of agricultural investment projects in Khartoum State
- Albashir
- 25 February 2015
he governor Abdul Rahman Al Khidir has meanwhile stressed when he received the UAE investors of Al Mohair Group, specialized in agricultural production in West Omdurman, that the state is ready to provide all necessary assistance so that the production reach its peak.
Investors should work with farmers to secure food supply: Al Ghurair
- Gulf News
- 09 February 2015
Eisa Al Ghurair, chairman of Al Ghurair Resources, the agricultural commodities arm of Dubai-based Al Ghurair Investment, warned on Monday of investors buying farmland in foreign countries, citing political risk.
Dubai: food prices and fluctuations
- Dubai Eye
- 09 February 2015
Gulf countries have accumulated a lot of bad press, while having no commercial or strategic benefits from overseas farming intiatives, says Eckart Woertz, Senior Research Fellow at Barcelona Centre for International Affairs.
UAE invited to invest in Belarusian agricultural companies
- BelTA
- 18 December 2014
Top on the agenda of talks between Belarus and the UAE was the purchase of land to produce grain crops in Belarus for their subsequent export to the United Arab Emirates.
Egypte : deux compagnies émiraties s’associent au gouvernement pour produire du blé dans les régions désertiques
- Ecofin
- 09 December 2014
Al Dahra et Jenaan travaillent avec le gouvernement égyptien à la création d’une joint-venture destinée à produire du blé dans des régions désertiques en Egypte.
Unifrutti signs deal for Maguindanao banana farms
- Business World
- 10 November 2014
Chiquita-Unifrutti will invest US$60 million in a 2,000 ha banana plantation in an area previously occupied by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
UAE firm set to produce 300,000 tonnes of wheat in Egypt's Toshka
- Reuters
- 27 October 2014
UAE-based Al Dahra Agriculture aims to pump water from the country's Aswan High Dam reservoir and deliver it via a 50-kilometre canal to 100,000 acres of reclaimed farmland 60 km from the border with Sudan.
Why Gulf money did not flow into agriculture?
- Dawn
- 20 October 2014
Pakistan is now turning to agribusiness rather than land sales as a means of luring Gulf investment.