Al-Amoudi solicits additional arable land
    Al-Amoudi's recently established Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc requested, two weeks ago, an additional 250,000 ha of land in Ethiopia for sugar beet production.
    • Addis Fortune
    • 07 December 2009
    Food poor and oil rich: Quelling Qatar's appetite
    Hassad Food plans to invest all over the world. “Latin America, Asia, you name it,” says Al Hajri, “Where we invest, we make profit. If Qatar is in need of that production, Hassad has the pleasure to sell to Qatar at no special rate.”
    • Qatar Today
    • 06 December 2009
    Gulf company interested in Sudan farming project
    The Jordanian government is considering a proposal by a regional private company to participate in a project to invest in Sudanese agricultural land, a senior government official said on Saturday.
    • Jordan Times
    • 06 December 2009
    Korea’s overseas development backfires
    That Korea is no longer "importing" this food that is being grown overseas implies that this land is effectively Korean. This amounts to agricultural imperialism.
    • Korea Times
    • 04 December 2009
    British Company invests in Zambia
    Zambian government has made agriculture development a priority as evidenced by the reserving of 1 million hectares of land for cultivation and investment, according to foreign investor Neil Crowder
    • Lusaka Times
    • 04 December 2009
    Q&R : Même les Etats insulaires peuvent faire des projets pour améliorer la sécurité alimentaire
    L’île Maurice envisage de produire des denrées alimentaires à Madagascar et au Mozambique où elle a obtenu de grandes étendues de terre. Est-ce un projet viable?
    • IPS
    • 04 December 2009
    Full circle: Back to the 'Land to the Tiller': Implications of the land grab in Ethiopia
    Ethiopia's potential can be maximized only if we Ethiopians are the producers and sellers of our own agricultural products. What Meles Zenawi is doing now is putting this upside down. He made our potential buyers the sellers of our commodity.
    • Ethiomedia
    • 03 December 2009
    CSO network rejects 'corporate takeover of Africa land'
    "Leasing or giving away a huge chunk of land to foreigners, who will produce food to be shipped to their own people, and to hope that the money gained in profits will feed the local people is the height of naivete," Gathuru Mburu of ABN said
    • Capital Ethiopia
    • 03 December 2009
    Food project to attract big investment
    A planned large-scale commercial farming or food estate project in Merauke, Papua, is expected to trigger fresh investment of up to US$5.3 billion in the area in the next five years.
    • Jakarta Post
    • 03 December 2009
    Taking land from African farmers unfair
    After signing a 25-year lease from Kenya's Lands Ministry in Nairobi, Burgess made auxiliary payments to various groups to ensure that the plan could continue unhindered. Unfortunately, the people of the Luo tribe and members of other tribes in similar situations are unhappy.
    • Daily Skiff
    • 03 December 2009
    Mineks again securing Arab funds to plow Turkish fields
    Mineks has withdrawn from Vision3, the strategic alliance between three major Gulf banks to bring a $9 billion investment trust to Turkey, particularly in the Southeastern Anatolia Project, which hit the rocks when the banks were affected by the continued spiral of the financial crisis.
    • Today's Zaman
    • 03 December 2009
    Djibouti: "La sécurité alimentaire constitue la priorité des priorités dans notre pays"
    Au niveau institutionnel, le gouvernement a mis en place cette année, la Société Djiboutienne de Sécurité Alimentaire qui est chargée notamment de la mise en œuvre et la gestion des projets de sécurité alimentaire sur des milliers d'hectares de terres fertiles mis à la disposition de notre pays par l'Ethiopie, le Soudan, et le Malawi.
    • La Nation
    • 03 December 2009

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