• Who's behind the land grabs?
    • GRAIN
    • 16 October 2012

    A slide show by GRAIN that profiles some of those who have been most actively pursuing or supporting farmland grabs around the world.

  • Kazansummit 2011
    • Kazansummit
    • 21 June 2011

    At the III International Islamic Business and Finance Summit in Tatarstan, Russia representatives of Saudi Arabia's Foras Investments requested 10,000 ha of land in Tatarstan for agricultural projects.

  • The great African land rush
    • The Atlantic
    • 14 April 2011

    "Only 12% of [the land investors have acquired in Africa in the last few years] is actually being farmed," Oxfam Senegal's Head of Economic Justice Lamine Ndiaye says. "The other 88% is just sitting there. It's just for speculation. You buy it, and three years later, you sell it at a higher price."

  • Senegal in talks to lease farmland to Saudi
    • Reuters
    • 06 December 2010

    Senegal is in talks with Saudi Arabia to lease farmland to grow food of an area nearly four times the size of Manhattan.

  • Saudi investors poised to take control of rice production in Senegal and Mali?
    • GRAIN
    • 29 November 2010

    New report by GRAIN shows how Saudi businessmen are pursuing deals in Africa that would give them control over some of the continent's most productive farmlands.

  • Une firme saoudienne va investir 100 millions de dollars dans l’agriculture au Nigeria
    • APA
    • 22 June 2010

    Le gou­ver­ne­ment de l’Etat de Kat­si­na af­fec­tera 1.?000 hec­tares de terres à Foras International pour la production agricole.

  • Saudi Arabian company to invest $100m in agriculture in Katsina
    • Compass
    • 22 June 2010

    Under an MoU the state will provide Foras International with 1,000 hectares of land for crop production.

  • Saudi Arabia launches 750 million riyal agricultural project in Sudan
    • Sudan Vision
    • 18 January 2010

    Foras International Investment Co., the investment arm of the Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has started to put its objective of realizing food security in the Islamic countries into action by launching its first project of the integrated agricultural food basket in Sudan.

  • 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.

  • Saudi threat to India's basmati
    • India Today
    • 22 September 2009

    "The real worry is that IRRI may help Saudi Arabia produce aromatic rice varieties in Pakistan where these countries have bought large tracts of lands," food policy commentator Devinder Sharma said. "India and Pakistan are already bitter rivals in the Basmati export segment."

  • CGIAR joins global farmland grab
    • GRAIN
    • 08 September 2009

    An internal document recently posted on IRRI's website reveals that the Institute has been advising Saudi Arabia in the context of its strategy to acquire farm land overseas for its own food production.

  • Foras rice project in Mauritania
    • YouTube
    • 11 August 2009

    Foras Investment Company conducted a pre-feasibility study on rice plantation in Mauritania in 2008. The aim of the study is to sieze the opportunity of setting up a rice farm on 2000 hectares in Rosso area.

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