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The House asked in November for the government to draw up a plan to minimise the impact of inflation on consumers, voicing concern that inflation in the UAE continues to be the highest in the region (Photo: Gulf News)
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmoud Quraishi told Gulf News that there is a win-win situation in combining Pakistan's richness in agriculture with the GCC's richness in energy resources. (Photo; AP)
China's CITIC Construction company developed a farm in Luanda, Angola. Pedro Canga, Angolan minister of agriculture, rural development, and fishing (third from l.) checks out a corn field there. Wang Bingfei/Newscom
Pictured on the cover of the Feb. 7, 2011 issue of The Christian Science Monitor weekly magazine, Ethiopian farmer Eshete Eneyew threshes corn in Abay, north of Addis Ababa in 2009. (Photo: Reuters photo/John Kehe illustration)
The G-20 could call for a moratorium on large-scale agriculture investments until an agreement on appropriate ground rules is reached, says Olivier DeSchutter UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
"How much land will actually go to Indian investors depends entirely on the interest of investors. If they come and take all the land, then also we will be very happy. Indian investors are very welcome in Ethiopia," says Ethiopia's Minister of Agriculture Tefera Derbew.
"So far we have transferred 307,000 hectares of land to foreign and domestic investors ... We are now proposing to transfer another 3.6 million hectares of land to investors from overseas," says Ethiopian Agriculture Minister Tefera Derbew (Photo: Grozz)
