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In Sudan and Ethiopia, Gulf capital has targeted large-scale agricultural estates, livestock production, and agro-processing, often through joint ventures with local elites or state authorities.

The partnership aims to identify and develop large‑scale agricultural land, targetting an initial 10,000 hectares of irrigated farmland, with a potential expansion to another 10,000 hectares.

Al Dahra officials are visiting several provinces in search of land up to 10,000 hectares with abundant water for irrigation, improved access, and electricity for project implementation.

Le groupe AL DAHRA, basé aux Émirats arabes unis, recherche 10 000 hectares en Angola pour y produire à grande échelle du maïs, du soja, des haricots et du tournesol pour la fabrication d'aliments pour animaux destinés à l'exportation vers les pays arabes.

The company — backed by Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ — farms about 250,000 acres globally. It will focus on farming and the sale of commodities it produces, its press office said

Since foreign land ownership is legally restricted in the country, the idea is that foreign investors can participate as minority shareholders in agribusiness investment funds (Fiagros) and partner with Brazilian landowners.

It is a subsidiary of Alpha MBM Investments, a Dubai-based company developing a US$4 billion oil refinery in Uganda, whose chairman is a member of Dubai’s royal family.

O Ministério da Agricultura do Brasil pretende apresentar em fevereiro a fundos soberanos árabes uma proposta de investimento em terras no Brasil para apoiar a conversão de pastagens para áreas agrícolas. Como a propriedade de terras por estrangeiros é limitada no Brasil, a ideia é que os investidores estrangeiros possam entrar como cotistas minoritários de fundos de investimento no agronegócio (Fiagros) e se associar a proprietários brasileiros.

The project dreamt of transforming dunes of Cholistan into farmlands by contracting out vast tracts to private companies who were supposed to vanguard a corporate farming revolution. But the companies involved are disillusioned, with one foot already out the door.

The collaboration between Al Dahra and the international ports operating arm of AD Ports Group is expected to enhance agricultural supply chains, strengthen food security, and promote sustainable growth in Egypt’s fast-developing regions, particularly in the east and south regions.

This famine in Sudan is not merely a product of the war that began in April 2023 but is the culmination of a decades-long structural shift: the systematic reorientation of Sudan’s fertile land and water toward export-oriented agriculture serving Gulf food-security systems.

Afin de réduire la vulnérabilité des approvisionnements, les pays du Golfe cherchent à contrôler l’ensemble des étapes des chaînes de valeur. Les investisseurs publics et parapublics, relayés par le secteur privé, se tournent ainsi vers la production agricole offshore au sein de pays riches en eau et en terre.