Pakistan

Farmland: selling sensitive ideas
- Dawn
- 04 May 2009
In its bid to experiment with new ideas, the Pakistani government has decided to play host to overseas investors keen on acquiring farmlands to capitalise on food insecurities post-2007-08 crisis.
Philippines offers farm products to Saudi
- Maktoob
- 29 April 2009
The Philippines has offered to become a major source of agricultural products to Saudi Arabia ahead of a planned visit by the kingdom’s agricultural minister Fahd Balghunaim, Arab News reported on Wednesday.
Emirates Investment Group to buy Pakistan farmland
- Reuters
- 28 April 2009
Emirates Investment Group is in the process of acquiring farmland in Pakistan to export more food to the Gulf region and is seeking international partners, a company executive said on Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia looks to foreign farmlands to feed itself
- Dawn
- 26 April 2009
The issue of food security is getting higher on Riyadh’s priority list.
Pakistan woos investors from UAE
- Khaleej Times
- 24 April 2009
"Pakistan has finalised plans to offer ownership of agricultural lands to investors for farming, and is targeting investors from the UAE and other Gulf countries to help with their own food resources."
Food follies
- National Interest
- 24 April 2009
The Federal Minister of Investment in Pakistan, Waqar Ahmed Khan, said this week that the government plans to sell or lease 1 million acres of farmland to foreign investors, primarily from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries. Although the news has yet to gain much coverage, if carried out it could punctuate growing unrest and frustration, given Pakistan’s limited amount of arable land and population of more than 170 million.
Pakistan land for rent
- Islam Online
- 22 April 2009
A cash-strapped Pakistani government plans to sell or rent one million acre land to foreign countries for agricultural purposes in a bid to underpin the country’s troubled economy. “A complete legal cover will be provided to the investors so that even in case of the change of government, they should not be affected.”
INTERVIEW - Pakistan offers farmland to foreign investors
- Reuters
- 20 April 2009
Pakistan is offering one million acres of farmland, protected by a special security force, for lease or sale to countries seeking to secure their food supplies, an official from the ministry of finance said on Monday.
Much tilling without harvest
- Zawya
- 16 April 2009
Essentially, the Middle East is left with two choices. “The region has to import. The question is, invest abroad or rely on the free market?” said Dr Eckart Woertz, program manager in economics at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai.
Pakistan to provide food security to UAE
- Gulf News
- 27 Mar 2009
Pakistan has offered UAE investors an opportunity to invest in corporate farming projects back home as a means to secure the UAE's food supplies.
No matter how bad things get, people still need to eat
- The Economist
- 18 Mar 2009
A conference for fund managers tied to agriculture held annually in Sydney by Austock, an Australian broker, attracted a few dozen contrarian souls three years ago. This year’s event, which began on March 16th, had to be restricted to several hundred ticket-holders, with many others turned away.
Arrival of colonialism of the third kind
- The Daily Sun Star (Dhaka)
- 17 Mar 2009
The truth is that if exploitation of a developing country’s natural resources by the West is colonialism, so it is when rich countries of the South do the same.