Saudi Arabia

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.
Saudi Arabia nears deal to take over $4 billion Olam unit
- Bloomberg
- 31 October 2024
Saudi Agricultural & Livestock Investment Co., controlled by the country’s sovereign wealth fund, is in advanced talks on a transaction that would value Olam Agri Holdings at about $4 billion.
Vietnamese Government leader meets with leaders of Saudi Arabia’s major firms
- VOV
- 30 October 2024
SALIC aspires to expand co-operation and investment in the Vietnamese market, especially in the production, processing and export of rice, along with animal feed, poultry, livestock and aquaculture.
El Ménéa : un méga-projet agricole de 20 000 hectares scelle le partenariat algéro-saoudien
- Maghreb Emergent
- 22 October 2024
Le projet, porté par des investisseurs privés des deux pays, prévoit l’implantation de cultures céréalières et le développement d’une filière d’élevage bovin laitier.
Algeria-Saudi partnership: A new agricultural pole of 20.000 hectares
- Echorouk
- 21 October 2024
A new agricultural hub is expected to be embodied in an Algerian-Saudi partnership in strategic agriculture and dairy cattle on an area exceeding 20,000 hectares in the wilaya of El Menea (Southern Algeria).
UAE-based agtech to raise at least $100mln by year-end – report
- Zawya
- 24 September 2024
Pure Farms operates greenhouse-based farms in the UAE and Saudi Arabia and will use the fundraising for the construction of a new farm in Morocco
MHP SE - Disclosure notification
- MHP
- 17 September 2024
MHP, a Ukrainian agribusiness company with massive poultry and grain farms, says the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC) has acquired a 12.6% stake in the company.
Extractive agribusinesses—guaranteeing food security in the Gulf
- MERIP
- 04 September 2024
In recent years, Gulf economies have tackled their food dependencies not just by importing foodstuffs but through land enclosures, or the purchasing of agricultural land abroad, particularly in the Middle East, North and East Africa (but also as far as the United States and Australia)
Jamais un mètre-carré de terre congolaise ne sera cédé (Denis Sassou-N’Guesso)
- Echos du Congo
- 02 September 2024
À propos des terres agricoles accordées à des sociétés rwandaises, le Président de la République du Congo a déclaré que jamais il n’a été question de leur vendre des terres. "À chaque fois, il s’agit -ou il s’agira- de terres louées pour une période déterminée et pour une mission précise."
Hedge fund's $100M Arizona farmland buy stirs fears of water grab
- Arizona Daily Star
- 26 August 2024
New York-based hedge fund Water Asset Management LLC spent $100 million to buy farmland and water rights in Western Arizona, stirring concerns about a future “water grab” from that rural area and of corporate control over a major groundwater source.
Zim, Saudi Arabia work on agric map
- The Herald
- 20 August 2024
“Salic, which is charged by royal decree to make strategic investments at home and abroad to ensure food security in Saudi Arabia, is a good fit for several of our State institutions, as well as for our private sector, in the area of agriculture, livestock and agribusiness," says Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia