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Turks veto farm plan for minefield
- FT
- 02 June 2009
Hostility to foreign investment in a sensitive border area has forced the Turkish government to shelve plans to turn a minefield along its frontier with Syria into organic farmland.
Iraq offers farmland to Gulf investors
- Reuters
- 01 June 2009
Iraq is offering Gulf investors farmland on long term lease contracts as part of a plan to restore its agriculture sector, an official said on Monday.
Foreign cropland deals
- World-Grain.com
- 01 June 2009
A flurry of announced international purchases of grain-producing acreage sparks debate about their merits
Is offshore farming a good thing for Africa?
- Seattle Times
- 01 June 2009
Abdullah Alireza, the Saudi minister of Commerce and Industry, talked about farming abroad in a recent visit to Seattle, where he addressed a private gathering of local business people.
Tackling inflation, food insecurity are key challenges: Maqbool
- Oman Daily Observer
- 01 June 2009
Oman has sought the assistance of the specialised UN agency, UNCTAD, in conducting a study on food security.
Food security or economic slavery?
- Business Day
- 01 June 2009
These arrangements are reminiscent of “banana republics” when many African countries served as plantations for European countries -- but even those did not come with such explicit restrictions and rigidities.
Cambodia debates merits of land sales
- The National
- 31 May 2009
Cambodia has been signing deals with Kuwait and Qatar to help develop its agricultural sector. Cambodian officials, however, refuse to disclose details of the agreements, worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Congo delays SA farm deal
- Reuters
- 31 May 2009
"At this stage, we have not sold a single square metre to the South Africans," Rigobert Maboundou, Congo Republic's minister of agriculture said over the weekend.
Outsourcing agriculture
- ISN Security Watch
- 28 May 2009
If land is being unused or under-utilized in poor regions across Africa and Southeast Asia, outsourcing to capital-rich and land-poor nations could help prevent another global food crisis, but it must be fair and productive, Adam Wolfe writes for ISN Security Watch.
Japan to push for G-8 rules on intl farm investment
- Yomiuri Shimbun
- 28 May 2009
This would be the first time for an international set of guidelines of this kind to be formulated
Food security in Africa: China's new rice bowl
- China Brief
- 27 May 2009
Most Chinese investment in African agriculture is concentrated in southern Africa: Mozambique, Tanzania, Malawi and, increasingly, Angola.
Libya agrees deal to grow wheat in Ukraine
- Reuters
- 27 May 2009
Tymoshenko is pushing through with promises to provide Libya 100,000 ha of Ukrainian farmland to produce its own wheat