• Convening of Arab Conference on Agricultural Investment in Khartoum
    • Sudan Vision
    • 27 February 2017

    Sudan's Minister of Investment says the conference will be attended by ministers responsible of investment in the Arab world, organizations, financing institutions and businessmen and constitutes a solid base for promoting the agricultural investment in Sudan.

  • Khartoum provides Saudi investors new guarantees
    • Asharq Al-Awsat
    • 24 January 2017

    There are 196 Saudis investing in the agricultural sector in Sudan and they basically focus on wheat, corn and feed.

  • AAAID Investments have exceeded its paid capital: executive
    • Sudan Vision
    • 09 August 2016

    AAAID Chairman says scores of investors have expressed the desire for partnerships with the Authority in agriculture.

  • Oman's OFIC signs agreement on food security projects
    • Times of Oman
    • 25 June 2016

    Oman Food Investment Holding Company and Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development signed a memorandum of understanding for enhancing the existing cooperation between them in several food security projects

  • Mauritania secures $34m agric loan from Riyadh
    • APA
    • 01 December 2014

    The loan will be used to develop 3,500 hectares of land in the eastern basin of the Rkiz plain (300 km south of Nouakchott), develop another 2,200 hectares and rehabilitate 1,000 hectares in the western basin of the same plain.

  • Arab investors and land grabbers wanted by Egypt
    • Green Prophet
    • 24 April 2014

    Egypt plans to lease 25,000 hectares of agricultural land to Arab investors.

  • Egypt eyes more Gulf investment on back of agricultural deal
    • World News
    • 09 April 2014

    Egypt plans to lease 25,200 hectares of agricultural land this year to a firm affiliated with an Arab investment body, its agriculture minister said,

  • Overseas farm projects to be insured
    • Zawya
    • 30 December 2013

    The Agricultural Development Fund, the Islamic Development Bank and the Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment & Development are holding talks to provide insurance on the agricultural projects being funded by King Abdullah's Initiative for Saudi Agricultural Investment Abroad

  • Arab world urged to close food supply gap
    • The National
    • 03 April 2013

    In an effort to help tackle food security, officials yesterday agreed to double the capital of the Arab Authority for Agriculture Investment and Development, a multilateral lender aimed at promoting investment in agriculture.

  • AAID may build grain stocks site for Gulf
    • Reuters
    • 23 February 2012

    AAID is also setting up an agricultural land investment company, in conjunction with Saudi investors, which will start with capital of $60 million to acquire land in Egypt, Sudan and Kazakhstan.

  • Abu Dhabi looks to Sudan to secure food supply
    • Financial Times
    • 03 June 2010

    Abu Dhabi is preparing to launch a large-scale agricultural project in Sudan to develop more than 70,000 acres of land as part of the oil-rich Gulf emirate's efforts to secure food supplies.

  • Is there such a thing as agro-imperialism?
    • New York Times
    • 19 November 2009

    There’s a whole school of economic thought that says that Collier is wrong, that big is not necessarily better in agriculture — and that the land deals therefore might be unwise not because they’re wrong but because they’re unprofitable.

  • Sign the petition to stop Industria Chiquibul's violence against communities in Guatemala!
  • Who's involved?

    Whos Involved?


  • 13 May 2024 - Washington DC
    World Bank Land Conference 2024
  • Languages



    Special content



    Archives


    Latest posts