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Food security keeps its place at the table
- The National
- 17 December 2009
What do the Berlin Wall and the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) have in common?
Sudan looks to attract Middle Eastern investment in farmland
- Bloomberg
- 17 December 2009
“We are now looking very seriously into Sudan,” said Zouhair Eloudghiri, chief executive officer of Savola Foods Co., a unit of Saudi Arabia’s second-largest publicly traded food producer, Savola Al-Azizia United Co.
Food estate menjadikan petani Indonesia sebagai buruh di tanahnya sendiri
- Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI)
- 17 December 2009
Dalam hal ini, dapat dikatakan masa pengesahan “perampasan tanah” (land grabbing), ketika pengusaha besar lokal dan asing datang atas mandat pemerintah untuk bersaing dengan petani gurem.
Food estate makes Indonesian peasants laborers on their own land
- SPI
- 17 December 2009
The Indonesian Peasants’ Union (SPI) explains how the government's food estate plan benefits companies and threatens farmers.
Wikileaks: Qatar sharpening focus on food security and related technologies
- Wikileaks
- 16 December 2009
"Hassad [Food] has innovated by considering investments in overseas agribusinesses rather than only purchasing land in countries with questionable property rights, and where the indigenous population may not benefit from such purchases," writes the US embassy in Doha
Kazakhstan not to lease China farmland but will create joint agricultural manufacture
- Kazakhstan Today
- 15 December 2009
The head of state at the last session of the Council of Foreign Investors informed that China had requested to lease 1 million hectares of Kazakh farmland for cultivation of rape and soya. According to A. Evniev, "It is not a lease, it is a question of joint manufacture. In this case, it is soya and later it will be corn and rape."
Sudan eyes $6 bln-$7 bln investment in 2010
- Reuters
- 15 December 2009
Sudan's minister of state for investment said yesterday he expects investments of $6-7 billion in the country in 2010, adding that Africa's largest nation is seeing increased interest in its agricultural sector.
Wikileaks: Kuwaiti food security: Less than meets the eye...
- Wikileaks
- 15 December 2009
US embassy in Kuwait reports on discussions with Kuwaiti officials on acquiring farmland overseas for food security or profit
Kazakhstan not to sell land to China - PM Karim Massimov
- Kazinform
- 14 December 2009
Kazakhstan will not "sell" land to China, Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov has announced
Kazakhs protest alleged Chinese plan to rent farmland
- RFE/RL
- 14 December 2009
Dozens of Kazakh activists staged a protest today in front of the Chinese Embassy in Almaty against the planned leasing of Kazakh land to China, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
Philippines: Mideast farm firms eye investment tie-up here
- Business Mirror
- 14 December 2009
No less than 4,000 hectares in the Davao region have been identified by Middle Eastern-based companies to grow their products.
UN gathers experts to help strengthen agriculture in poor nations, tackle food shortages
- UN News Centre
- 14 December 2009
The United Nations agency that promotes commerce to fight poverty kicked off a meeting today aimed at finding ways in which trade, investment and technology transfers between developing countries – so-called “South-South” cooperation – can improve farming to boost food security in poorer nations.