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Cowboys of Kurdistan
- The Kurdish Globe
- 14 Mar 2009
Foreign investors have been given licenses to run cow farms across Kurdistan Region.
Improving food security in Arab countries: Is land acquisition a viable strategy?
- World Bank
- 31 January 2009
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are worldwide leaders in buying farmland in third-party countries, followed by China and Japan, says the World Bank.
Saudi Gets First Rice Produced by Locals Abroad
- Reuters
- 27 January 2009
Saudi Arabia, one of the world's biggest rice importers, has received the first batch of rice to be produced abroad by local investors, state news agency SPA reported on Monday.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques receives Minister of Commerce and Industry
- S.Arabia MoFA
- 25 January 2009
King Abdullah received today Saudi Arabia's Minister of Commerce and Industry accompanied by two Saudi businessmen Mohammad Hussein Al-Amoudi and Abdullah Hassan Al-Masri on the occasion of the arrival of the earliest produce of their rice to the Kingdom.
Investments by UAE in Egypt reach $2.9 billion
- Emirates Business 24/7
- 08 January 2009
Egypt will receive a number of UAE delegations next month to discuss proposals involving agriculture, land reclamation and the food industry in southern Egypt, as well as infrastructure and renewable energy projects.
Pays riches et groupe financiers achètent des terres cultivables dans les pays pauvres
- RTL
- 23 December 2008
Des pays en quête de ressources alimentaires et des groupes financiers séduits par les perspectives du marché mondial de l'agriculture acquièrent en masse des terres arables dans des pays le plus souvent pauvres ou émergents, un phénomène qui inquiète des ONG.
'Global land grab' causing alarm among NGOs
- AFP
- 23 December 2008
The global food and financial crises have combined to create a new form of colonialism in which countries short of resources and corporations desperate for profits are buying up arable land in emerging nations, NGOs say. The non-governmental organisations have expressed concern at this "global land grab," which they say is threatening the survival of rural livelihoods in some parts of the world.
Ces Etats qui accaparent les terres agricoles en Afrique
- Afrik.com
- 12 December 2008
Autre problème posé par l’exploitation des terres agricoles en Afrique par d’autres pays et par les multinationales étrangères : le droit à la propriété foncière. Dans plusieurs pays du continent, les législations autour de ce droit sont floues.
Rich countries carry out '21st century land grab'
- New Scientist
- 04 December 2008
Nomadic herders, rarely a priority for governments, are being dispossessed by bioethanol developments in Kenya, says Michael Taylor of the International Land Coalition (ILC), and they also depend on the “unused” land that Madagascar offered Daewoo.
South Korea's Daewoo to grow corn in Madagascar
- Reuters
- 18 November 2008
South Korea's Daewoo Logistics will plant corn in Madagascar, a company official said on Tuesday, with a long-term aim to replace more than half the corn it currently imports from mostly the United States.
Global Food Crisis: A Bowl of Opportunities for Muslim World
- Dinar Standard
- 03 November 2008
This analysis looks at how the oil-rich Muslim economies could leverage their existing relationships with agriculture based Muslim economies (which have a wide productivity gap with the worlds net agriculture exporters) taking them to globally competitive levels; reaping for themselves high investment returns, securing their own food sources, and contributing to alleviation of the food crisis from other Muslim countries.
L’Egypte veut cultiver son blé en Ouganda
- Les Afriques
- 31 October 2008
La location de terres agricoles en Afrique de l’Est a été initiée par des fonds arabes du Golfe. Voilà que des hommes d’affaires égyptiens veulent produire du blé en Ouganda.