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Zanzibar to host major Afro-Arab conference
- The Citizen
- 10 September 2009
A conference to discuss ways of boosting agricultural production in Africa will be held in Zanzibar later this month
Russia Agribusiness Report Q4 2009
- BMI
- 10 September 2009
Putin's latest land reform legislation could lead to over 400mn hectares of crop acreage being sold.
Saudi private $533 mln agri-business firm eyes 2010 start
- Reuters
- 09 September 2009
A group of private Saudi investors said they plan to start a company with $533.3 million capital that will invest in farm projects mainly abroad. First projects may be with Ghana, Turkey and Kazakhstan.
Agricultural investment firm opened
- Arab News
- 09 September 2009
Saudi Arabia announces the launch of Agroinvest, which will focus on farm acquisitions abroad to grow wheat, rice, soybeans and other crops in Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Pakistan and Turkey
Food quest
- The Economist
- 08 September 2009
The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has launched a venture aiming to invest in food production worldwide focusing on the acquisition and development of existing agribusiness companies rather than the lease of large tracts of farmland.
CGIAR joins global farmland grab
- GRAIN
- 08 September 2009
An internal document recently posted on IRRI's website reveals that the Institute has been advising Saudi Arabia in the context of its strategy to acquire farm land overseas for its own food production.
SA farmers in new scramble for Africa
- Mail & Guardian
- 08 September 2009
South Africa is joining a “green rush” for the African continent. The Republic of the Congo has offered Agri SA 10-million hectares for South African farmers to produce maize and soya beans as well as to establish dairy and poultry farms.
Call for GCC 'land grab' policy to stop - experts
- Arabian Business
- 07 September 2009
Agricultural experts have called for a halt to moves by Gulf investors to snap up foreign land, amid claims that poor nations are losing much-needed farmland in a calculated land grab.
Farmlands plan faces new blow
- Gulf Daily News
- 06 September 2009
Bahrain and other Gulf countries' plan to buy agricultural land in Thailand to bolster their food supplies could be thwarted, it has emerged.
Leasing out land and food security
- The News
- 04 September 2009
It's certainly questionable whether the lease of agricultural land to foreign countries for the purposes of their own food supply is in the best interests of Pakistan, even if it brings in agricultural technology. What do the Arab farmers have that our agricultural universities don't?
Ethiopia. Now is harvest time
- L'Hebdo
- 03 September 2009
In June 2009, the Indian company Karuturi took up intensive farming in Ethiopia. The harvest will be exported to Asia and Europe.
Thais to weed out farm investment
- The National
- 03 September 2009
Gulf investors may be forced to reconsider plans to acquire agricultural land in Thailand following moves there that could curb foreign investment in the sector.