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Flour crisis – no end in sight
- The Post
- 20 Jul 2008
Sources say that UAE businessmen are considering buying large land holdings and importing food items from Pakistan at 20-25 percent less cost.
Gulf states look to harvest food from investment in Asia
- AFP
- 20 Jul 2008
One issue reportedly delaying UAE investment in Pakistan is the Gulf state appearing to want “blanket exemption” from Islamabad’s agricultural export policies.
UAE to invest in Kazakh agriculture
- Financial Times
- 16 Jul 2008
The United Arab Emirates is seeking to invest in agricultural projects in Kazakhstan as part of its efforts to secure food supplies.
UAE plans to invest in farmland in Kazakhstan, says president
- Food Business Review
- 16 Jul 2008
President of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed, has said that in order to secure food supply for the country, the government wants to invest in farmland in Kazakhstan
UAE looks abroad for food security
- Gulf News
- 09 Jul 2008
The UAE is actively looking at acquiring farmland in Vietnam, Cambodia, Africa and South America in an effort to ensure the availability of food stocks, according to the UAE Minister of Economy.
Financializing Food: Schroders Closes One Fund, Launches New as Speculative Money Continues to Flood into Commodity Funds
- Indonesia Investmenet Coordinating Board
- 08 Jul 2008
Gobal fund manager Schroders is launching an Agricultural Land Fund, only months after closing its USD 6 billion Alternative Solutions Agriculture Fund due to excessive investor demand.
Abu Dhabi seeks to lease land for farming in Sudan.
- YouTube
- 06 Jul 2008
A news video from UAE
Invest in Africa? Some say yes, others fear the worst
- The National
- 03 Jul 2008
The UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization is expanding its Abu Dhabi office tenfold to broker deals with farmers in such areas as the Horn of Africa.
Gulf food security: is there enough, and at what price?
- The Middle East
- 01 Jul 2008
Both public and private sector investors in the Gulf are also looking at ways to improve local food supplies, by investing in a range of outlets from arable farm land in the Sudan, Algeria and Pakistan to introduce new technology to enhance the local production of foodstuffs and grains, livestock, poultry and fish.
Arabs diversifying overseas investment
- Dawn
- 23 Jun 2008
Globalisation has taken yet another twist with some Middle Eastern countries deciding to grow their crops in other countries.
UAE ‘should invest in foreign farms’
- The National
- 21 Jun 2008
The UAE and its food-importing neighbours are “particularly vulnerable” to spiralling costs and should make significant investments in “contract farming” in Africa and Asia, says the UN’s Gulf food chief, Dr Kayan Jaff.
Gulf eyes oil-for-food pacts
- Inter Press Service
- 20 Jun 2008
Recent attempts by Persian Gulf countries to invest in farmlands abroad to counter soaring inflation and guarantee long-term food security could prove to be a win-win situation in the short term for both the oil-rich region and its investment-hungry neighbors, but continued high oil prices may neutralize the gains in the long-run, say experts.