• Loi n°45/AN/09/6ème L portant création de la Société Djiboutienne de Sécurité Alimentaire (SDSA).
    • République de Djibouti
    • 21 February 2009

    La Société Djiboutienne de Sécurité Alimentaire a pour mission d'oeuvrer pour le compte de l'Etat à la réalisation des objectifs de la Sécurité Alimentaire de la République de Djibouti. Les projets peuvent se situer au niveau du territoire national comme à l'extérieur du Pays dans une perspective d'intégration régionale.

  • Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches: Newsletter n° 3
    • International Fund for Agricultural Development
    • 21 February 2009

    En fait, les responsables de Daewoo n’annoncent pas qu’ils envisagent d’annuler leur projet. Il n’est question que de retard pour la culture de maïs. De plus, ce n’est qu’une éventualité et non une information. La culture d’huile de palme sur 300 000 ha n’est pas concernée.

  • The growing demand for land: Risks and opportunities for smallholder farmers
    • International Fund for Agricultural Development
    • 19 February 2009

    Paper for the International Fund for Agricultural Development's Governing Council meeting

  • Sarawak halal hub attracts RM4bil outlay
    • The Star
    • 19 February 2009

    Six Taiwanese and five local companies have committed more than RM4bil in investments in the Tanjung Manis Halal Hub in Mukah Division in central Sarawak.

  • INTERVIEW-Foreign land grabs for food could fuel unrest
    • Reuters
    • 18 February 2009

    Big purchases of African land by richer countries in a drive for food security could fuel unrest if the rights of local farmers are not taken into consideration, a land rights campaigner warned on Wednesday.

  • Saudis to invest $ 266m in Ethiopia and Sudan
    • Sudan Tribune
    • 18 February 2009

    A group of five Saudi Arabia business men have planned to invest 1 billion Saudi riyals (some $ 266.6 million) in agricultural projects in Sudan and Ethiopia within the coming few years, Pan Arab daily Asharq Al Awsat reports.

  • Los países ricos inician una carrera para hacerse con la tierra y garantizar su suministro de alimentos
    • Rebelion
    • 17 February 2009

    Los gobiernos y corporaciones ricos han desatado la alarma para los pobres a medida que van comprando los derechos a millones de hectáreas de tierra cultivable en los países en desarrollo en un esfuerzo por garantizar su suministro de alimentos a largo plazo.

  • Daewoo's African Dream
    • Korea Times
    • 17 February 2009

    "We can't eat semiconductors or auto parts." When Richard Shin of Daewoo Logistics told me this during an interview last week, it hit me hard. Shin is the manager of the Korean firm's $6 billion project to carve a 1.3 million hectare farm out of Madagascar, a formal French colony.

  • HADCO Chairman talks about the Co's Sudan investments
    • Al Arabiya
    • 17 February 2009

    A number of videos interviews broadcast by Al-Arabiya are available at Zawya.com, in Arabic

  • Saudi's Hadco Eyes Sudan, Turkey in Food Security Push
    • Reuters
    • 17 February 2009

    Saudi Arabia's Hail Agricultural Development Co (Hadco) said on Monday it would look at investing in Turkey and Kazakhstan after moving into Sudan under a government plan to ensure steady food imports.

  • Mideast food market touches Dh114b
    • Gulf News
    • 17 February 2009

    With land prices falling, now is a good time for the UAE to acquire farmland in other countries, in order to strengthen food security, a senior official says.

  • Saudi Hail starts farm investment abroad in Sudan
    • Reuters
    • 16 February 2009

    Saudi private sector company Hail Agricultural Development Co (Hadco) has picked Sudan for its first investment in farming abroad under a Saudi government scheme to ensure steady food imports, it said.

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