Saudi Arabia

Votre planète est à vendre sur Arte
- BSC News
- 03 April 2011
La planète est à vendre: effrayante réalité que nous montre Alexis Marant dans un judicieux documentaire "Planète à vendre" que vous pourrez voir sur Arte le mardi 19 avril 2011.
South Sudan threatened by land grab
- NPA
- 23 Mar 2011
Four months before South Sudan becomes an independant nation nine percent of the country has been targeted by investors, a Norwegian People's Aid report reveals.
Saudi billionaire's company will invest $2.5 billion in Ethiopia rice farm
- Bloomberg
- 23 Mar 2011
The company leased 10,000 hectares in Ethiopia’s western Gambella region for 60 years for $9.42 per hectare annually and plans to lease an additional 290,000 hectares from the government.
Pese a Cristina, Capitanich entregaría tierras públicas a sauditas
- Urgente24
- 15 Mar 2011
El Foro Multisectorial por la Tierra del Chaco denunció negociaciones entre el gobernador del Chaco, Jorge Capitanich, y el Grupo Al-Khorayef de Arabia Saudita, para la entrega de tierras públicas
King Abdullah initiative on agricultural investment abroad discussed at forum in Khartoum
- SPA
- 09 Mar 2011
Sudan is top of the list of countries selected for Saudi investments, says Undersecretary of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Agriculture
Gulf investors eye Philippines agro sector
- Emirates 24/7
- 05 Mar 2011
Investors from UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain are currently planning to inrease investment in the agriculture sector of the Philippines as part of their government’s food security programmes.
Maguindanao massacre area eyed for banana farm
- Philippine Star
- 22 February 2011
A local subsidiary of Saudi Arabian firm Abbar and Zainy has proposed turning a wide swathe of land in Sultan Kudarat and Maguindanao – including the site of the Maguindanao massacre – into a banana plantation.
International agri-capital farm renting intensifies Gambela’s woes
- Nazret
- 21 February 2011
Modern machineries of all sorts, owned and run by agri-companies, are turning the soils inside out, destroying forests and beginning to pollute the environment to get more production.
Silence over Ethiopian land grab broken
- Afrik News
- 17 February 2011
Land grabbing poses no harm on the environment or on the local community, says Saudi billionaire Sheik Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi who is seeking to expand his farmland in Ethiopia from 10,000 hectares to 250,000 hectares.
Arab farm investment push
- Stock & Land
- 10 February 2011
Former Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, is leading a push to get Arabs to invest in Australian farmland as part of a long term food security strategy for oil-rich Gulf States
Gulf Arab governments tackle higher food prices
- Reuters
- 03 February 2011
Countries in north Africa and the Middle East are urgently seeking ways to soften the blow of surging food prices for their citizens, alarmed by protests against authoritarian rulers from Algeria to Yemen.
Malaysia’s ECER eyes GCC market
- Arab News
- 28 January 2011
The ECER has abundant land, which could fulfill the needs of Middle East countries that are looking for their food security program, says Malaysian official.