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    • Now Malawi agrees to lease land to Djibouti
      • Coastweek
      • 17 April 2009

      Malawi has agreed to lease arable land to Djibouti for crop production, leaders of the two countries have disclosed, the Nations reported on Tuesday.

    • Saudis request for 500,000 hectares
      • The Citizen Newspaper
      • 17 April 2009

      Saudi Arabian investors want to lease 500,000 hectares of farmland in Tanzania to grow rice and wheat.

    • Securing food security in the Asia-Pacific region: A partial analysis
      • United Nations Asian & Pacific Centre for Agricultural Engineering and Machinery
      • 17 April 2009

      There is a need to allow countries which do not have access to arable land to guarantee food security of its people by an “Exchange Agreement”.

    • HyundaiHeavy’s land deal smells of politics
      • Korea Times
      • 16 April 2009

      Hyundai Heavy Industries -- the world's biggest shipyard -- has bought a big tract of Russian farmland in one of the latest diversification moves by Korean firms. But here's a question: Have performance- and profit-obsessed Hyundai Vice Chairman Min Gye-sik and its CEO Choi Kil-seon voluntarily decided on the move or has the company's biggest stakeholder pushed for the plan?

    • Malagasy farmers oppose land deals with foreigners
      • Reuters
      • 16 April 2009

      Malagasy farmers have backed a move by the country's new president to stop a $6 billion land deal with South Korea's Daewoo Logistics, saying it would have come at the expense of local people's needs for land.

    • Saudi Investors Eye Leasing Tanzanian Farmland
      • Reuters
      • 16 April 2009

      Saudi investors have asked Tanzania if they can lease 500,000 hectares of farmland mainly for rice and wheat farming as part of a plan to secure food supplies for the desert kingdom, officials said.

    • New York investment firm mulling more land leases in S. Sudan
      • Sudan Tribune
      • 16 April 2009

      Jarch Management Group, Ltd., a US investment firm, disclosed that it is considering additional opportunities to lease large tracts of farmland in Southern Sudan.

    • Africa beckons for rice firms
      • Bangkok Post
      • 16 April 2009

      The region continues to have great market potential as a number of Thai rice companies have offices there and some have been approached by local governments to invest there in milling, processing and even growing rice.

    • Vision3 signs Agriculture Memorandum of Understanding with Government of Turkey
      • Vision 3
      • 16 April 2009

      Vision3, the promoter of AgriCap, the investment vehicle conceived to invest in visionary initiatives across the agriculture sector in the greater MENA region announced today that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the General Directorate of Agricultural Enterprises (TIGEM), a Turkish governmental agency falling under the authority of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

    • BD2.26bn deal to bolster links
      • Gulf News Daily
      • 16 April 2009

      Bahrain and Turkish trade links took a step closer yesterday with the signing of an agreement for an agricultural project initially worth $0.5bn (BD189 million), rising to $3bn (BD1.13bn) and eventually $6bn (BD2.26bn), said Industry and Commerce Minister Dr Hassan Fakhro at the signing ceremony.

    • Much tilling without harvest
      • Zawya
      • 16 April 2009

      Essentially, the Middle East is left with two choices. “The region has to import. The question is, invest abroad or rely on the free market?” said Dr Eckart Woertz, program manager in economics at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai.

    • UAE: Strategic plan sought to achieve food security
      • Emirates Business 24/7
      • 15 April 2009

      Abu Dhabi's food imports increased considerably during the past two years as the cultivated area contracted and the level of self-sufficiency in several commodities and livestock went down, the emirate's Department of Planning and Economy has revealed. The department yesterday called for a strategic plan to achieve food security through an increase in agricultural investment outside the UAE, especially in Sudan.

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