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Corporate farming in Pakistan opposed
- The News
- 07 January 2010
Voicing aversion to corporate agriculture farming, speakers at a seminar on Wednesday underlined the need for taking effective steps to counter its adverse effects in Pakistan.
Corporatising agriculture in Pakistan
- Daily Times
- 08 December 2009
How can we become a food sovereign state when decisions of what to grow, where to grow, and how much to grow are increasingly taken by corporations?
Corporate farming: pros and cons for Pakistani economy
- Asian Tribune
- 07 December 2009
This paper examines the CAF policy, Corporate farming worldwide, and concludes that current CAF policy adopted for leasing land is not in best interest of Pakistan in context of food, water and land security.
Wikileaks: UAE develops food security policy
- Wikileaks
- 24 November 2009
"Al Shariqi said that while the government does not have foreign agricultural investments, some UAE sheikhs personally own land in Pakistan, Egypt, Australia and New Zealand," reports the US mission in Abu Dhabi
Le monopoly des terres agricoles
- France 24
- 17 November 2009
Alors que 45 millions de Pakistanais - soit un quart de la population du pays - se trouveraient en situation d'insécurité alimentaire, Islamabad s'apprête à louer des terres cultivables à l'Arabie saoudite. Une décision qui fait polémique...
Giving away the family silver
- Newsline
- 26 October 2009
If all these land deals will be beneficial to Pakistan in the long run, why is the government refusing to divulge the details of what is the citizens’ common property?
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.
‘Foreign loans will bring prosperity’
- The News
- 19 October 2009
Corporate farming will raise food production in Pakistan and local people would get required food items. It will export only extra food stocks to foreign countries, disclosed advisor to Chief Minister, Sindh, Sharmila Faruqui.
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.
Corporate farming will exacerbate food crisis: NGO
- The News
- 18 October 2009
Roots for Equity Director Dr Azra Sayeed demanded that the Pakistani government stop giving agricultural land on lease to foreign food companies, and rather that these lands should be given to local growers to overcome food crisis in the country.
UAE seeks East Asia food security links
- Gulf News
- 18 October 2009
Cambodia will be the fourth country after Sudan, Egypt and Pakistan to receive UAE investments intended to achieve a food security plan drawn up by the government. Large-scale planting on Cambodian land acquired through purchase or 99-year lease may be launched there next year.
Small farmers in Pakistan say "NO!" to GE rice, Plant Breeder's Right Act and land grabbing in Pakistan
- Lok Sanjh Foundation
- 15 October 2009
On October 15 2009, the Lok Sanjh Foundation and the Pakistan Dehqan Assembly organized a conference on rice and the food crisis, focusing on small farmer livelihoods. More than 600 farmers, tenants, landless workers and partner organizations from different parts of the Sheikhupura region participated in the event.

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