Pakistan

Qatar has plans to expand its food security options in Pakistan and the state-owned corporation, Hassad Food, has opened an office in Lahore, Pakistan’s ambassador Mohamed Sarfraz A Khanzada told Gulf Times in an exclusive interview.

The World Forum of Fisher People (WFFP) and Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) while welcoming the report designed by Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, who warned of the threat of ‘ocean-grabbing’ to food security, and urged world governments and international bodies to halt the depletion of fish stocks, and take urgent steps to protect, sustain, and share the benefits of fisheries and marine environments.

Today's neocolonials are no longer content monopolising the output of the lands; they want the source of the produce, too — the land itself and the accompanying water supply.

This is a case study undertaken by Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific and Roots for Equity. It looks into the intricacies of Al Dhara Company's investment in Sindh, Pakistan.

Participants from various communities shared documented cases, stories and photos of how large-scale investments of local and foreign owned companies are displacing communities and how people oppose such type of investments.

“We are offering investment opportunities in agriculture farming, livestock, grain-storage project as well as in infrastructure development projects,” says chairman of the Sindh Board of Investment

Pakistan has announced an investment policy which is encouraging the corporate sector to engage vast lands in all four provinces of Pakistan on very easy terms.

The Pakistan government should table a bill in the parliament before proposing further selling of agricultural lands in order to have a legitimate regulatory mechanism in place, says economist.

The common denominator throughout the South, write Najma Sadeque, is that customary laws or rights of usage are no longer recognised, and constitutions do not guarantee protection of community lands

Indus Basin Holdings, a private equity firm incorporated in Mauritius that invests in rice production and dairy farms in Pakistan, has managed to get Britain’s former foreign secretary David Miliband on board as a senior adviser.

United Arab Emirates is interested to cultivate agricultural goods in Pakistan and is also ready to make small dams for irrigation on the condition agricultural goods from Pakistan should not be stopped exporting to UAE.

The China Green company wants to acquire 10,000 acres of farmland in Pakistan on lease to grow fruits and vegetables.