Saudi Arabia

Arizona officials are considering a plan to start regulating groundwater pumping in the rural area 100 miles west of Phoenix, where Fondomonte, part of the Saudi dairy giant Almarai, operates a massive alfalfa farm

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.

Large-scale land leases to Gulf and domestic agribusiness investors have undermined rural livelihoods by cutting off grazing routes and limiting access to land, primarily used for cultivating sorghum and other staple food crops, Nisrin Elamin explains.

As governments from the Gulf to Beijing quietly buy up farmland around the world, a silent shift in global power is underway – one that few have noticed, but all will feel

Topics addressed with the Saudi Business Council delegation included the development of joint projects in the field of food security, investments in agricultural land to strengthen long-term food chains, halal certifications and veterinary standards to facilitate exports to Saudi Arabia.

Taking over Olam Agri would fit into Saudi Arabia’s food security strategy, which calls for investing in global companies to lock in supply and encourage them to bring production to the kingdom.

Water resource “hedge funds” and corporate farms are running the desert dry.

Iraq’s agriculture minister has offered Saudi investors one million hectares of farmland.

Agriculture and livestock are fast emerging as priority areas under the umbrella of Pakistan's Special Investment Facilitation Council and, last year, a Saudi agribusiness firm signed an agreement to cultivate 5,000 acres of alfalfa fodder for export.

The Brazilian federal government is studying a proposal to create an agribusiness investment fund (Fiagro) to attract foreign investors willing to become equity partners with farmers seeking to recover and convert degraded pastures.

The billions of cubic meters of Nile water, rainwater, and treated sewage water that have been pumped into Egypt's recent large-scale desert agriculture projects have come at the expense of the country's small farmers.