Giving away the family silver
    If all these land deals will be beneficial to Pakistan in the long run, why is the government refusing to divulge the details of what is the citizens’ common property?
    • Newsline
    • 26 October 2009
    DA earmarks P40B for support services
    Many foreign companies are now positioning for investments in the Philippines such as the Far East Agriculture Corp., a consortium of at least 10 agribusiness companies from Saudi Arabia. Next month, these companies are expected go back to the Philippines for site selection in areas of rice, corn, poultry and livestock production.
    • Philippine Daily Inquirer
    • 25 October 2009
    Healthy balance at stake in plans for food security
    UAE foreign investment in food production have so far focused on leasing Pakistan and Sudan’s agricultural land, with new prospects in Cambodian rice, Canadian wheat and Australian beef. Alongside the strategic deals at the national level, private investment has followed which should open new channels of trade, for example, Al Qudra Holding has plans to grow grain and vegetables in Vietnam and Croatia as well as Pakistan.
    • The National
    • 25 October 2009
    (Secure) Food for thought
    Interview with Kieran Forde, an Irishman who works in Saudi Arabia for the Tabuk Agriculture Company (TADCO), which will be shifting food production for the Saudi market to Egypt
    • BBC
    • 23 October 2009
    L’accaparement des terres de la Vallée : Comment les propriétaires traditionnels risquent de perdre leurs terres
    Le processus d’expropriation des terres de la Vallée, en Mauritanie, par des multinationales ne fait que commencer.
    • Kassataya
    • 22 October 2009
    Brazil makes its case to Saudis that Brazilian agribusiness is good for them
    "The idea is to show that the Arabs may invest in agriculture in Brazil without the need for purchasing land," says Eduardo Sampaio
    • Brazzil Magazine
    • 22 October 2009
    Sudan to part-privatise agricultural schemes
    Sudan's Kenana sugar company -- part-owned by the governments of Sudan and Saudi Arabia and the Kuwait Investment Authority, among others -- will manage more than 300,000 acres of farm land in a long-term project that aims to make Africa's largest country the bread basket of the Middle East within 10 years, officials said on Sunday.
    • Reuters
    • 19 October 2009
    Jang Economic Session: Policy to transfer land to foreigners opposed
    Participants of the ‘Jang Economic Session’ have opposed the policy to transfer land either on lease or on permanent basis to foreigners on the pretext of corporate farming.
    • The News
    • 18 October 2009
    Petition against land lease disposed of
    The chief justice of Lahore's High Court directed the Ministry of Food and Agriculture that no land would be sold or leased out to any foreign country without prior intimation to this court.
    • The News
    • 14 October 2009
    Accaparement des terres arables : Du riz mauritanien pour nourrir les saoudiens !
    Avec un déficit de 25% dans sa consommation de riz, le royaume d’Arabie saoudite recherche de nouveaux «débouchés » pour s’approvisionner en Afrique notamment dans les pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest où il s’arroge d’énormes superficies acquises à cet effet. La Mauritanie ne déroge pas à cet appétit.
    • Le Quotidien de Nouakchott
    • 12 October 2009
    Sheik’s new agro firm shells out $80m
    Al Amoudi has a new company whose purpose is to grow food in Ethiopia for Saudi Arabia.
    • Addis Fortune
    • 12 October 2009
    Newsline: The Saudi factor
    Special issue on the Pakistani government's plans to dole out domestic farmlands to the Gulf countries on 99-year lease for corporate farming.
    • Newsline
    • 09 October 2009

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