Saudi-based Al Rajhi International for Investment company targets injecting 1.2 billion Egyptian pounds (US$135 million) to reclaim 75,000 feddans in Egypt's Toshka project until 2020.

The African Institute for Agrarian Studies brought Southern scholars, activists, practitioners, and farmers to Harare, Zimbabwe to learn from each other’s work and experiences to advance social justice projects for the rural global South.

The Egyptian-Sudanese Integration Company is implementing the Blue Nile State's Ad-Damazin project on an area of ​​about 100,000 acres and a meat project in White Nile State.

The company is investing instead in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya to grow olive and palm trees on 100,000 acres. The Minya project will be 100,000 acres.

Egyptian officials say they are pursuing food security farming projects in the DR Congo and Sudan, where they have recently been allocated 1 million acres.

Sudan is hosting the agriculture ministers from Egypt and Saudi Arabia for discussions on a proposal made by president Omer Hassan al-Bashir to use his country’s vast fertile lands to achieve Arab food security.

Almarai said to be among Saudi companies that plan to expand their business in Egypt, along with food oil firm Saffola and Jannat Agriculture Investment Company.

Economist of CI Capital says farming sector requires “more corporatisation”, as the majority of the country’s arable areas of land, largely extending along the river Nile, are family-owned.

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir clarified that Sudan has the land and water and Egypt has the human resources and expertise while gulf countries can provide financing.

JSF créera également de nouvelles unités de production horticole pour exportation vers le marché japonais

Al Dahra et Jenaan travaillent avec le gouvernement égyptien à la création d’une joint-venture destinée à produire du blé dans des régions désertiques en Egypte.

The Sudanese Minister of Investment, Dr Mustafa Osman Ismail, told reporters in Khartoum on Sunday that farmlands have been reserved for interested Egyptian farmers at a rate of 10 acres (4 ha) each.