Pakistan

Fixing Pak food problems
- Pakistan Observer
- 26 July 2011
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 offers free farmland to Japanese tsunami victims
- The News
- 24 July 2011
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, corporate farming to deepen hunger, poverty, and unemployment: Moot
- Pakistan Times
- 05 July 2011
Land grabbing in Pakistan has faced stiff resistance in different forms by the members of civil society organizations including farmers’ organizations, Tanveer Arif says.
Missing food security
- Pakistan Observer
- 18 April 2011
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 firms eye investment in food processing sector
- Pakistan Observer
- 13 Mar 2011
Australian companies are interested in making investment in Pakistan’s agriculture sector from production of crops to their processing and export.
Pakistan right to seek good ties with GCC
- Gulf News
- 07 February 2011
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.
Global land grabbing: Eroding food sovereignty
- PAN AP
- 14 January 2011
Land deals, whether as direct purchases or long-term leases, are being brokered in poor countries by advanced capitalist countries and their TNCs
Food reserve planned, but imports leave UAE vulnerable
- The National
- 12 January 2011
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 and Khartoum discuss sending Pakistani farmer to Sudan
- Sudan tribune
- 05 December 2010
Islamabad government is negotiating with Khartoum a way to provide land and family visas to Pakistani farmers to enable them to farm in Sudan.
CHRGJ report calls for rights protections in global land rush
- CHRGJ
- 28 October 2010
Urges transparency and regulation to protect rights, prevent further food insecurity.
Emirates seek overseas feed supply
- Al Dahra
- 16 August 2010
Abu Dhabi’s Al Dahra Agricultural Company is halfway through a plan involving more than 60,700 hectares of farmland in Europe, the US, south Asia and north Africa to boost the UAE’s food security.
Hassad to produce rice abroad for Qatar market
- Peninsula
- 07 July 2010
State-backed food producing and marketing giant, Hassad Food Company, has plans to produce rice in India, Pakistan, the Philippines and Vietnam.