• Inversión extranjera masiva en tierras africanas, una ocasión controvertida
    • AFP
    • 14 July 2009

    "Es una forma de hegemonía (...) Qatar nunca cedería a Kenia participaciones en sus campos petrolíferos", critica el abogado keniano Evans Monari.

  • Sudan will put its agricultural resources at Africa’s disposal
    • Sudan Tribune
    • 02 July 2009

    The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir told the African Union summit in Libya that Sudan is willing to put its resources at the disposal of the continent.

  • La Guinée veut composer avec les Emirats arabes unis
    • Les Afriques
    • 27 June 2009

    Parmi les propositions alléchantes figurent aussi en bonne place les financements des investissements privés, avec, pour composante, le bail emphytéotique d’une partie des 3 500 000 ha de terres cultivables que possède le pays.

  • Zambie : des firmes américaines et émiraties s'intéressent aux exploitations agricoles
    • Les Afriques
    • 27 June 2009

    Selon le ministre de l'Agriculture, Brian Chituwo, des entreprises américaines et émiraties sont intéressées par la création de grandes exploitations agricoles en Zambie, pour cultiver du sucre et des céréales.

  • UAE's Mirak cuts farming in Iran after strike
    • Reuters
    • 14 June 2009

    Ghadimi said it was easier to control immigrant workers in the UAE than farm labourers in Iran, where unions were strong.

  • US, UAE firms eye Zambian farming land
    • Reuters
    • 12 June 2009

    Companies from the US and the UAE are interested in establishing large farms in Zambia to grow sugar and grains, the country's agriculture minister said

  • Asia: Land grabs threaten food security
    • IRIN
    • 10 June 2009

    Sam Pov, a rice farmer in Cambodia’s western Battambang Province, is very worried that his land will be taken over by a foreign investor.

  • Betting the farm
    • Fortune/CNN
    • 10 June 2009

    As world population expands, the demand for arable land should soar. At least that's what George Soros, Lord Rothschild, and other investors believe.

  • Gulf states show interest in Thai farms
    • Reuters
    • 08 June 2009

    A number of Gulf states have expressed interest in livestock and rice farming in Thailand to secure food supplies, a Thai official said on Monday. "The countries involved could be Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar or the UAE," he added.

  • Thai, UAE talks to set up livestock farms
    • Emirates Business 24/7
    • 04 June 2009

    The UAE Government is holding talks with Thailand about plans to develop huge livestock farms in the Southeast Asian country.

  • Food security or economic slavery?
    • Business Day
    • 01 June 2009

    These arrangements are reminiscent of “banana republics” when many African countries served as plantations for European countries -- but even those did not come with such explicit restrictions and rigidities.

  • Pakistan opens more farmland to foreigners
    • Reuters
    • 18 May 2009

    Pakistan dramatically increased the amount of farmland open to foreign investors to six million acres, but will require outsiders to share half of their crop with local growers, Pakistan’s investment minister told Reuters.

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