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Healthy balance at stake in plans for food security
- The National
- 25 October 2009
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.
(Secure) Food for thought
- BBC
- 23 October 2009
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
L’accaparement des terres de la Vallée : Comment les propriétaires traditionnels risquent de perdre leurs terres
- Kassataya
- 22 October 2009
Le processus d’expropriation des terres de la Vallée, en Mauritanie, par des multinationales ne fait que commencer.
Brazil makes its case to Saudis that Brazilian agribusiness is good for them
- Brazzil Magazine
- 22 October 2009
"The idea is to show that the Arabs may invest in agriculture in Brazil without the need for purchasing land," says Eduardo Sampaio
Sudan to part-privatise agricultural schemes
- Reuters
- 19 October 2009
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.
Jang Economic Session: Policy to transfer land to foreigners opposed
- The News
- 18 October 2009
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.
Petition against land lease disposed of
- The News
- 14 October 2009
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.
Accaparement des terres arables : Du riz mauritanien pour nourrir les saoudiens !
- Le Quotidien de Nouakchott
- 12 October 2009
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.
Sheik’s new agro firm shells out $80m
- Addis Fortune
- 12 October 2009
Al Amoudi has a new company whose purpose is to grow food in Ethiopia for Saudi Arabia.
Newsline: The Saudi factor
- Newsline
- 09 October 2009
Special issue on the Pakistani government's plans to dole out domestic farmlands to the Gulf countries on 99-year lease for corporate farming.
Corporate farming…A wise development strategy or land grab?
- Desertification
- 08 October 2009
Critics say that by seeking to solve their food shortage problem through foreign farmland acquisitions, the rich emerging economies may succeed in producing enough quantity for their populations but may in the long-term be exporting their food insecurity to other nations.
Zardari regime grappling with its credibility
- Dawn
- 04 October 2009
The Zardari government is on trial with respects to three developments, of which the possible lease of land to Saudi Arabia and some other Arab countries, because they are of historical significance for Pakistan.