The government of Pakistan has offered 6mn acres of its agricultural land to resourceful countries and multinational companies (MNCs) for corporate farming, corporate sources have said.
Experts urged the Sindh government to consider a few policies, which included supporting small growers, giving state land to landless women and men haris and an immediate end to leasing out land to other countries.
The Government of Pakistan should avoid providing land to the foreign investors and encourage the local small farmers for rapid poverty reduction and food security in the country.
Pakistan is ready to offer free agriculture land to Japanese farmers who lost their crops and land in the March earthquake and tsunami, Tariq Puri, chief executive of the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan said in a meeting with Japanese officials.
Land grabbing in Pakistan has faced stiff resistance in different forms by the members of civil society organizations including farmers’ organizations, Tanveer Arif says.
UAE is ready to build small dams for cultivation on lands they would acquire in Pakistan, provided the government ensures that there is no ban on exports.
Australian companies are interested in making investment in Pakistan’s agriculture sector from production of crops to their processing and export.
Pakistan Foreign Minister says there is a win-win situation in combining Pakistan's richness in agriculture with the GCC's richness in energy resources.
Land deals, whether as direct purchases or long-term leases, are being brokered in poor countries by advanced capitalist countries and their TNCs
Several national companies and even the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the capital's sovereign fund, are planning investments in agriculture in countries as diverse as Vietnam, Cambodia, Pakistan, Australia, Romania and the United States.
Islamabad government is negotiating with Khartoum a way to provide land and family visas to Pakistani farmers to enable them to farm in Sudan.
Urges transparency and regulation to protect rights, prevent further food insecurity.
