Failed commercial farms
- The Reporter
- 10 Aug 2019
Birhanu Fikade of "The Reporter" sat down with Atkyelesh G.M. Persson (PhD) to learn about her findings on large scale FDI that failed to deliver the desired results in Ethiopia
Saudi Arabia
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Karuturi, Saudi Star et al labeled poor performers, less responsible investors
- The Reporter
- 10 Aug 2019
Scholar and employee of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Atkyelesh G.M. Persson, recommends that the government, private sector and academia further investigate the potential damages large scale farms have perpetrated in Ethiopia and beyond.
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SALIC leads round for UK crop analytics company Hummingbird Technologies
- GAI
- 27 May 2019
For Saudi state-based SALIC the investment in Hummingbird reflects its ambitions to evolve into a global agribusiness investment company, and is a strong strategic move after its string of farmland deals this past year.
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How Egypt’s water feeds the Gulf
- Mada Masr
- 16 May 2019
Gulf agribusiness companies found their panacea in Egypt, which is prioritizing investment in large-scale, modernized farming to export crops over pursuing strategic crop cultivation and traditional farming methods in the Nile Valley and Delta.
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Gulf capital and Egypt's corporate food system: a region in the third food regime
- Review of African Political Economy
- 05 May 2019
Gulf investment is one of the largest foreign capitals in Egypt's agribusiness sector and it owns companies that have controlling market shares of corporate food.
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Saudi-based SAK plans $100 mln Turkey investments despite tense ties
- Reuters
- 17 Apr 2019
Saudi Arabia-based SAK Consultants is looking into investing in land or forming a partnership with landowners to export vegetables and meat to Saudi Arabia.
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Saudi government's agriculture investor buys Australian farmland
- Bloomberg
- 04 Apr 2019
Saudi Agricultural & Livestock Investment Co. (SALIC) bought 200,000 hectares of farmland in Australia as the company explores global deals to expand its business.
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One of Africa’s most fertile lands is struggling to feed its own people
- Bloomberg
- 02 Apr 2019
Little of the 5 million acres [2.02 million hectares] that Sudan's agriculture ministry estimates are in foreign hands—perhaps less than 1 in 20 acres—has been cultivated.
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Who keeps buying California's scarce water? Saudi Arabia
- Guardian
- 25 Mar 2019
Saudi-based Almarai owns 15,000 acres of an irrigated valley – but what business does a foreign food production company have drawing resources from a US desert?
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Saudis are in town for SA agriculture
- Ag. Economics Today
- 04 Mar 2019
A Saudi delegation met with South Africa’s Minister of Agriculture and "expressed a desire to lease land in South Africa to produce a wide range of agricultural commodities provided they can sign a lease of 99 years or more.”
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Saudi Agricultural Livestock Investment Company in $70m deal to buy John Nicoletti’s Wheatbelt farms
- West Australian
- 01 Mar 2019
The Saudi Agricultural Livestock Investment Company has emerged as the likely buyer of Australia’s biggest single parcel of broadacre farming land, based in the Wheatbelt.
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Saudi Arabia asks India to allow foreign ownership in real estate
- Economic Times
- 20 Feb 2019
Saudi Arabia wants India to change its laws to allow Saudis to own agricultural land to help enhance food security while reducing their dependence on oil, says the chairman of the Saudi-India Business Council
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