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Saudi Arabia eyes special relationship with RI: Envoy
- Jakarta Post
- 30 September 2009
“Our people have already surveyed several areas to choose the right place for planting basmati rice. The investment will be huge,” says Ambassador Khayyat.
TCC gives farmers 2 years to quit land
- Bangkok Post
- 30 September 2009
The TCC Group's move to terminate the farmers' leases comes amid increased concerns that foreign firms are taking a controlling interest in rice farms in Thailand's central provinces.
Food security deals alarm ex-WTO head
- Gulf Times
- 30 September 2009
“I would say to friends in the [Gulf] region that this is not the way to get food security because the opposite will happen”, the former director-general of the World Trade Organisation told Gulf Times yesterday.
Hearing against sale of land to foreigners put off
- Daily Times
- 30 September 2009
Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif postponed until October 6 the hearing of a petition challenging the proposed sale or lease of millions of acres of agriculture land to foreign countries.
Promoting responsible international investment in agriculture
- MOFA
- 29 September 2009
The Government of Japan, with the World Bank, FAO, IFAD and UNCTAD, try to initiate a coordinated global response to the growing land grabbing trend at the UN
Egypt's Citadel to invest $200-$400 mln in 2010
- Reuters
- 29 September 2009
Citadel, which also announced on Tuesday that it was investing in 500,000 feddans (210,000 hectares) of farmland in Sudan, is also looking to potential investments elsewhere in Africa: Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia.
Egypt firm says investing in Sudanese farmland
- Reuters
- 29 September 2009
Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital is investing in 210,000 ha of farmland in Sudan, where it got the right to the land for 99 years.
Dar won't host major conference
- The Citizen
- 29 September 2009
An Afro-Arab agriculture conference on farm investment, which was to take place in Zanzibar, has been cancelled due to the Tanzanian governmnt's 11th hour refusal to host it.
Indians go in search of El Dorado
- Times of India
- 29 September 2009
The Solvent Extractors Association, the Indian oilseeds industry body, has formed a consortium of 18 companies to acquire 10,000 hectares of prime farmland in a $40-million deal in Uruguay and Paraguay to cultivate oilseeds and pulses. The association says they are hamstrung only by access to finance, otherwise they have it all sewn up.
“Land grabs” for rice production due to supply threats
- IRRI
- 28 September 2009
IRRI is not involved in any projects on land acquisition for rice production, nor does it provide advice on land acquisition, but it does find ways to help increase the overall rice supply
Agriculture wins pension fund mandates
- Financial Standard
- 28 September 2009
Key areas of investment interest from pension and sovereign wealth funds in UK, Middle East, Europe and the US include agriculture land in Australia, South and North America, and throughout Europe.
UAE investors help plant hopes for Sudan’s revival
- The National
- 28 September 2009
As part of its policy of food security, Abu Dhabi acquired 30,000 hectares of land last June through its development fund to grow alfalfa, which is used to feed cattle, and other crops such as corn.