LHCBA asks govt not to sell land to foreign investors
    The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA), in a unanimously adopted resolution on Tuesday, demanded the government immediately withdraw leasing of agricultural land to other countries.
    • Daily Times
    • 16 September 2009
    Allotment of land to Blackwater irks LHCBA
    The Lahore High Court Bar Association stated that farmlands were being acquired by the Arabs as front men for the Americans who would eventually use them for possible military bases, because Arabs had been front men in the bid to purchase Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) for an Indian businessman.
    • The Nation
    • 16 September 2009
    El neocolonialismo agrario amenaza con dejar sin alimentos a los países en desarrollo
    Casi 20 millones de hectáreas en África, Asia o América Latina han pasado a manos de gobiernos o inversores privados extranjeros
    • Capital News
    • 15 September 2009
    Opposition mounts to Pakistani farmland sale plan
    Pakistan is pushing ahead with a plan to sell or lease agriculture land to foreign investors even as opposition grows at home.
    • Reuters
    • 15 September 2009
    India offers to spur green revolution in drought-hit Tanzania
    Tanzania has offered to lease land to Indian private companies for a period of 99 years, as it pitched for increased investment in the agricultural sector.
    • IANS
    • 15 September 2009
    Russia's Pava to start Gulf farmland roadshow in Oct
    PAVA offers its shares to Gulf investors for food supplies. It will start road show to UAE and Saudi in October.
    • Reuters
    • 15 September 2009
    Sale of agricultural land to foreign investors: LHC calls report from federal govt
    Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif on Monday sought a report and comments from the federal government by September 29 on a petition challenging the proposed sale or lease of millions of acres of agricultural land to other countries.
    • Daily Times
    • 15 September 2009
    Ethiopia’s gives away 2.7 million hectars of land
    Ethiopia’s government ruling tribal junta has defended its plan to offer 2.7 million hectares of farmland to foreign companies despite millions of citizens who need food aid from the international community.
    • EthioPlanet
    • 15 September 2009
    Al Amoudi’s hunt for arable land swells to half a million hectares
    Sheik Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi, the second richest person in Saudi Arabia, is preparing to farm cereals on hundreds of thousands of hectares of Ethiopian land for export to Saudi Arabia
    • Addis Fortune
    • 14 September 2009
    Oman - A pat for the private sector
    Oman has decided to appoint a specialist company to prepare the Sultanate's national strategy for food security.
    • Times of Oman
    • 14 September 2009
    Country for sale? Dawn Editorial
    American drone attacks against the Taliban are routinely condemned in Pakistan as violations of national sovereignty. But there is little criticism of how our own government is threatening the country's territorial integrity by engineering the lease of millions of acres to foreign investors.
    • Dawn
    • 14 September 2009
    Arroyo to visit KSA next week
    Philippine President Arroyo will meet with Saudi Minister of Agriculture Fahd Bin Abdulrahman Balghunaim to discuss bilateral agricultural projects and with members of the Saudi business community for talks on proposals for investments in the Philippines.
    • Saudi Gazette
    • 13 September 2009

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