Pursuing its strategy of penetrating the Middle East market, the company has set up a special committee to study the possibility to increase exports to the region. So far, the company has signed a farming contract with Bahrain for supplying food products.

Des débats houleux ont émaillé le séminaire des milieux économiques et sociaux ACP-UE organisé par le Comité économique et social européen (CESE) à Gaborone, au Botswana, du 28 au 30 juin.

Pakistan's Ministry of Investment has decided to offer more than 7 million acres of farmland for long-term investment to the Emirates Investment Group and others. China and Saudi Arabia are also interested.

Le ministre des Affaires étrangères mauricien affirme que son gouvernement a acquis au Mozambique une vaste étendue de terre destinée à la production de riz pour son pays.

Estados e inversores privados compiten por comprar superficies en África, Asia y Latinoamérica

"Over the past few weeks the Saudi government has been in talks with us to lease 500,000 acres (202,400 hectares) of farmland and we are currently in the process of locating which land we could give them," Tauqir Ahmad Faiq at the ministry of agriculture, said

Mauritius has secured a large area of land in Mozambique to produce hybrid rice for export back hom through a joint venture with a Singaporean company.

Les terres agricoles québécoises sont déjà dévorées par des autoroutes, des mégacentres commerciaux, des développements immobiliers et des terrains de golf... Maintenant, ce sont les Chinois qui veulent les acheter !

In April, concerns over farmers’ rights led the government of Pakistan’s Balochistan province to block direct deals between United Arab Emirates-based private investors and farmers.

Russia is in talks with Japanese companies to secure investment in Siberian farmland and Pacific ports that would allow the world's No. 3 wheat exporter to carve a greater share of Asian markets, a senior grain official said.

The World Bank Group’s Investment Climate Advisory Service is developing a new set of indicators called the Investing Across Borders project.

"Liquidam as terras africanas. Constrangem milhares de pequenos produtores à miséria. Isto é intolerável. A terra deve continuar a ser um património da comunidade em África", afirma o presidente do comité executivo da Rede das Organizações Camponesas e Produtores Agrícolas da África Ocidental (ROPPA), Ndiogou Fall