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    • Insecurity drives farm purchases abroad
      • The Christian Science Monitor
      • 22 December 2008

      Land acquisitions abroad are the only viable response, Mohammed Raouf, program manager of environment research at the Gulf Research Center, and others say.

    • Madgascar, Kenya question widsom of foreign land deals
      • Global Voices
      • 21 December 2008

      Such blockbuster deals neglect to take into consideration the true interests of the farmers

    • Lamu port deal: Kenya to sell Tana Delta land
      • The East African
      • 20 December 2008

      Proposals to sell off around 16,200 hectares of land in the Tana River delta to Qatar to grow vegetables and fruit in return for a new port in Lamu have again raised concerns for the future of the environmentally important area.

    • Foreign investors may get legal cover
      • The News (Pakistan)
      • 20 December 2008

      The Pakistan government is all set to provide legal cover through parliament to protect foreign investors and their investment in all sectors particularly agriculture. “We are in talks with investors from Gulf states, particularly Saudi Arabia, for investment in corporate farming. Investors will be ensured repatriation of 100 per cent crop yield to their countries even in case Pakistan faces food deficit,” Federal Investment Minister Waqar Ahmad Khan said.

    • Wikileaks: Madagascar: GOM (again) denies Daewoo land deal
      • Wikileaks
      • 19 December 2008

      "Most observers here take the GOM denials at face value, and attribute the whole matter to Daewoo's extreme naivete in having concluded that a permit to look around for land here was anything more than the beginning of a long and still very uncertain process," writes the US embassy in Antananarivo in December 2008

    • Supply response to sky-high prices: Old reliables and an eye-opening new approach
      • The Prairie Star
      • 19 December 2008

      Recent unconfirmed media reports suggest that these countries are seeking as much as 20 million acres on which to grow crops that can be shipped back home for domestic consumption.

    • Queries as Qatar seeks to grow food in Kenya
      • Daily Nation
      • 19 December 2008

      It has now emerged that the land in question is part of the fertile Tana River delta in Coast Province, the same stretch where plans by Mumias Sugar Company to build a sugar factory have raised objections from pastoralists claiming that their animals will lack pasture and the environment will be destroyed.

    • Indonesia looks to Middle East, Gulf oil-rich investors
      • The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
      • 19 December 2008

      The government aims to net more investment from Middle East oil state main players next year, in particular in the agricultural sector, despite the global economic downturn, says a government official.

    • Large Emirates market opens up for more Vietnamese commodities
      • VNS
      • 18 December 2008

      "A number of agriculture investment projects are also in the pipeline. We are co-ordinating with some regions to find areas to plant rice for export to the UAE."

    • Sudan: Can Local Investors Beat Foreign Investment?
      • IPS
      • 18 December 2008

      Sudan is hoping to use foreign cash to reinvigorate its under-performing agricultural sector, but there is growing disagreement over the extent to which outsiders, rather than local farmers, should be taking control of the industry.

    • Qatar earmarks $1b for Mindanao projects
      • Manila Standard
      • 17 December 2008

      Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap noted that Qatar is looking for about 100,000 hectares of land for food production.

    • Africa’s silver lining
      • FDI Magazine
      • 17 December 2008

      “Now we are facing the food crisis. Madagascar can have a lot to offer on this: we have land, we are using less than 10% of arable land in Madagascar. The big foreign investors can come in, work together with us. They will get good return on investment and we will get food for the population."

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