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Kenyan activists fight land deal with Qatar
- The National
- 05 June 2009
The Qatari land deal in Kenya’s Tana River Delta has been seized upon by locals who have promised to fight it – to the death, if it comes to that.
Wikileaks: Qatari officials discuss currency, sovereign wealth funds, investment, and Iran with Secretary Paulson
- Wikileaks
- 04 June 2009
"Finance Minister Yousef Hussein Kamal said he had personally been traveling to Vietnam, Cambodia, Yemen, Sudan, Tajikistan, and elsewhere to look into investing in agricultural production for the Qatari market," reports the US Embassy in Doha about a visit from US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
View: Ensuring food security —Dmitry Medvedev
- Daily Times
- 04 June 2009
"In the conditions of the current food crisis, development of 20 million hectares of Russian agricultural land, unused since 1991, could be re-launched," says Russia's president
Thai, UAE talks to set up livestock farms
- Emirates Business 24/7
- 04 June 2009
The UAE Government is holding talks with Thailand about plans to develop huge livestock farms in the Southeast Asian country.
Farmland buying may harm poor states -EU official
- Reuters
- 03 June 2009
The European Union is concerned by the trend of foreign investors and countries acquiring large tracts of farmland in developing countries to guarantee their own food security, a senior EU official said on Wednesday.
The new kulaks
- Financial Express
- 03 June 2009
Capitalists of the world are cornering land in emerging markets. India need not wait until international agencies start lecturing us on the need for “reforms” (and FDI) in agriculture.
Overseas property investors buy farmland in Argentina
- HomesGoFast.com
- 03 June 2009
"Investors can invest as little as £12,000, or $16,000, in this project that will help to feed a growing world."
Gulf funds eyeing farm investments
- Gulf Daily News
- 03 June 2009
Gulf investors and sovereign wealth funds are pouring more cash into regional projects in renewable energy, farmland and infrastructure as focus turns to home, a PricewaterhouseCoopers partner said yesterday.
Chongqing shows its muscle
- Asia Times
- 03 June 2009
High on Chongqing's shopping list is more than 333,000 hectares of farmland, which Huang said would reduce the city's dependence, for example, on imported edible oil.
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