Pakistan

Pakistan identifies 80 projects for FoDP investors
- Daily Times
- 03 February 2010
Foreign Office spokesman says Pakistan has 8.25m hectares of land that can be cultivated to cater to global food demand
'Going ahead' with farmland deals
- The News
- 29 January 2010
Far too many questions remain unanswered for the government of Pakistan to forge ahead with these deals.
Dairy expertise exported in Middle East venture
- stuff.co.nz
- 28 January 2010
An ambitious project pooling New Zealand's farming expertise has received a fillip from Emirates Investment Group. Through EIG, there are two large Pakistan projects on the cards, one involving a 35,000ha farm.
Pakistan says committed to farmland deals
- Reuters
- 27 January 2010
Pakistan will press ahead with plans to lease or sell farmland to foreign investors despite United Nations concern over such deals, arguing the land would otherwise lie fallow, Pakistan's foreign minister said.
UAE to invest in Pakistan’s energy and farm sectors
- Gulf Times
- 16 January 2010
The United Arab Emirates has decided to make robust investments in Pakistan’s energy agriculture, education and health sectors, which need huge investment, official sources said yesterday.
Govt keen to lease out farmland to foreigners
- Dawn
- 14 January 2010
The government of Pakistan is open to lease out its agricultural land to foreign bidders, Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture Nazar Mohammad Gondal told the National Assembly on Wednesday.
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?