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    • SKorean company plans corn project in Madagascar
      • Associated Press
      • 19 November 2008

      A South Korean company hopes to turn an undeveloped stretch of Madagascar into a corn-production center, an official said Wednesday.

    • Food security still an issue - Will there be an OPEC for food?
      • Ag Capita
      • 19 November 2008

      Agcapita allows investors to gain direct exposure to a key part of the agriculture commodity bull market story - Canadian farmland.

    • South Korea's Daewoo to grow corn in Madagascar
      • Reuters
      • 18 November 2008

      South Korea's Daewoo Logistics will plant corn in Madagascar, a company official said on Tuesday, with a long-term aim to replace more than half the corn it currently imports from mostly the United States.

    • Land leased to secure crops for South Korea
      • Financial Times
      • 18 November 2008

      Daewoo Logistics of South Korea has secured farmland in Madagascar to grow food crops for Seoul, in a deal that diplomats and consultants said was the largest of its kind.

    • Saudi Arabia Food and Drink Report Q4 2008
      • PR-inside
      • 18 November 2008

      Due to the lack of arable land in its home market, Savola must look abroad for agricultural land and has named Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia and Ukraine as target countries where it plans to buy the land necessary to grow seeds such as sunflower and corn seeds.

    • Booming Gulf looks overseas for agriculture needs
      • Associated Press
      • 16 November 2008

      Gulf nations now are quietly scouring the globe for rich farmland to rent or buy outright.

    • Region gains an appetite for Africa
      • MEED
      • 14 November 2008

      As the Gulf's agricultural production rates slow and food prices around the world continue to rise, GCC members are investing heavily in the fertile lands of Africa and Asia.

    • Investing in Sudanese agriculture
      • BBC
      • 14 November 2008

      Interview with Sudanese government and FAO officials on leasing farmland to foreign investors

    • Global Food Crisis: A Bowl of Opportunities for Muslim World
      • Dinar Standard
      • 03 November 2008

      This analysis looks at how the oil-rich Muslim economies could leverage their existing relationships with agriculture based Muslim economies (which have a wide productivity gap with the worlds net agriculture exporters) taking them to globally competitive levels; reaping for themselves high investment returns, securing their own food sources, and contributing to alleviation of the food crisis from other Muslim countries.

    • 3 Gulf firms sign major farm deal with Turkey
      • Arab News
      • 02 November 2008

      Vision3, an alliance of three major Gulf financial institutions, has signed a landmark deal with Turkey paving the way for nearly $9 billion investment in Turkey’s agricultural sector.

    • Bangladesh-Myanmar contract farming: Opportunity for Bangladesh to meet agricultural shortfall
      • Asian Tribune
      • 29 October 2008

      Myanmar proposed to Bangladesh to take lease of at least 50,000 acres of land in its Rakhine state for contract farming of paddy, onion, maize, soybean, tea, and sugarcane

    • Top Chinese pharmaceutical firm bares plan to invest in herbal facility in Davao Sur
      • Philippine News Agency
      • 27 October 2008

      Yang told the Philippine President that they are eyeing a 10,000-hectare land in Davao del Sur as possible site for their planned laboratory where they will conduct tests on the viability of growing traditional Chinese herbs, the main ingredient of JKG medicines.

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