UAE

Business Close-up: Americana Group
- MEED
- 02 April 2010
The Kuwait-based firm aims to build on its base as the leading food company in the Middle East.
FACTBOX: Foreign forays into African farming
- Reuters
- 20 Mar 2010
A move by Madagascar's army-backed leader to nix a huge South Korean farming deal has exposed the risks of such ventures in Africa.
Selling off the heart of our nation
- Daily Telegraph
- 07 Mar 2010
Saudi Arabia, along with Abu Dhabi and Kuwait, want to buy more than $1 billion worth of Aussie farmland in a 21st century land grab.
GCC states look abroad to meet food needs
- Emirates Business 24/7
- 03 Mar 2010
Gulf oil producers have abandoned long-standing nationalistic policies of achieving food self-sufficiency and switched to a more realistic approach of using their strong financial muscle to invest in farm projects in fertile countries.
Qatar plans to grow corn in Georgia, import 70,000 sheep a year
- Bloomberg
- 26 February 2010
Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Co. plans to invest in Georgia, including the purchase of farm land, following a fact-finding trip in April.
Gulf Africa Strategy Forum 2009
- Khaleej Times
- 23 February 2010
The lack of systematic collection of data and categorising private and official investments from the Gulf has made it difficult to reach an accurate estimate of total investments, made so far.
UAE's MEC in talks to lease Indonesian farmland
- Reuters
- 14 February 2010
Minerals Energy Commodities Holding (MEC) is in talks with Indonesia to lease 100,000 ha of farmland in East Kalimantan for UAE's food security.
Analysis: Buy land — they’re not making it anymore
- Daily Times
- 07 February 2010
Reports indicate that the Gulf States have acquired more than 150,000 hectares of land in Balochistan near Mirani Dam to begin mechanised farming.
Crime, conflict and shortages threaten Gulf
- The National
- 05 February 2010
The worldwide financial crisis has reportedly stalled several agricultural deals between Gulf countries and overseas partners, including two between Bahrain and Pakistan.
Pakistan says committed to farmland deals
- Reuters
- 27 January 2010
Pakistan will press ahead with plans to lease or sell farmland to foreign investors despite United Nations concern over such deals, arguing the land would otherwise lie fallow, Pakistan's foreign minister said.
Gulf sovereign funds show interest in farmland fund
- Reuters
- 21 January 2010
The fund is in the process of leasing 50,000 hectares of land in Tanzania which will be complete by the end of this year and will mainly be for rice production.
Abu Dhabi and Alberta sign strategic economic co-operation
- Emirates News Agency
- 20 January 2010
This three years memorandum is not only setting a framework of cooperation but it includes some specific steps such as mutual beneficial arrangements in the agricultural sector (e.g. investment and provision of grain, development of a grain terminal)