• Egypt's Citadel eyes investments in Kenya, Uganda
    • Reuters
    • 25 October 2009

    Stephen Murphy, managing director of institutional fundraising, said the firm had eyed agriculture and infrastructure investments in Uganda.

  • DA earmarks P40B for support services
    • Philippine Daily Inquirer
    • 25 October 2009

    Many foreign companies are now positioning for investments in the Philippines such as the Far East Agriculture Corp., a consortium of at least 10 agribusiness companies from Saudi Arabia. Next month, these companies are expected go back to the Philippines for site selection in areas of rice, corn, poultry and livestock production.

  • Healthy balance at stake in plans for food security
    • The National
    • 25 October 2009

    UAE foreign investment in food production have so far focused on leasing Pakistan and Sudan’s agricultural land, with new prospects in Cambodian rice, Canadian wheat and Australian beef. Alongside the strategic deals at the national level, private investment has followed which should open new channels of trade, for example, Al Qudra Holding has plans to grow grain and vegetables in Vietnam and Croatia as well as Pakistan.

  • Reflections on Land grabbing
    • Afronline
    • 24 October 2009

    Formally, it is colonialism. Deals are often judicially incomplete. Populations are not part of this process and the traditional law is ignored. Agreements are not transparent.

  • Overseas interest in farming assets
    • Otago Daily Times
    • 24 October 2009

    Cash-rich overseas pension funds and investors have been scouting for New Zealand dairy farm investments,

  • Africa: Could regulation ease fears over land grabs?
    • IPS
    • 23 October 2009

    The Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF) says these land deals exclude farmers and threaten their livelihoods.

  • Les contrats d’investissement agricole, opportunité à encadrer
    • Les Afriques
    • 23 October 2009

    Entretien avec Aboubacar Fall, conseiller juridique de la Banque Africaine du Développement

  • (Secure) Food for thought
    • BBC
    • 23 October 2009

    Interview with Kieran Forde, an Irishman who works in Saudi Arabia for the Tabuk Agriculture Company (TADCO), which will be shifting food production for the Saudi market to Egypt

  • European Development Days: panel on global land acquisition
    • EDD
    • 23 October 2009

    An audio recording of the panel on global land acquisition, held on 22 October 2009 at the European Development Days 2009 in Stockholm, is available online.

  • Land grabs for food production under fire
    • IPS
    • 23 October 2009

    Ernest Corea, a former senior consultant with the Washington-based Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), told IPS the surrender of nationally-owned farm land and land rights to foreign interests - whether individuals, the corporate sector or governments - amounts to an erosion of sovereignty.

  • L’accaparement des terres de la Vallée : Comment les propriétaires traditionnels risquent de perdre leurs terres
    • Kassataya
    • 22 October 2009

    Le processus d’expropriation des terres de la Vallée, en Mauritanie, par des multinationales ne fait que commencer.

  • Congo farmland deal welcomed
    • SAPA
    • 22 October 2009

    The Congolese government said it had signed similar agreements with China, Brazil and Israel.

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