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Insecurity drives farm purchases abroad
- The Christian Science Monitor
- 22 December 2008
Land acquisitions abroad are the only viable response, Mohammed Raouf, program manager of environment research at the Gulf Research Center, and others say.
UAE examines farm future
- The National
- 19 October 2008
Some experts believe that the emphasis should be on overseas agricultural investments as well as a boost in trade relationships, due to the unavoidable handicaps to domestic agriculture.
Russian farming: from basket case to breadbasket?
- Associated Press
- 19 September 2008
Lured by soaring food prices, corporations - both domestic and foreign - have been snapping up land in this fertile region the size of France, replacing inefficient Soviet-style collective farming with modern farming techniques and economies of scale.
Russian farming: from basket case to breadbasket
- Associated Press
- 19 September 2008
“Foreigners who come here get astonished at the gleaming black earth,” said Viktor Karnushin, head of a local subsidiary of Sweden’s Black Earth Farming corporation, one of the biggest foreign players in Russian farming.
Analysis: The changing profile of food investment in the Middle East
- Business Intelligence Middle East
- 09 September 2008
GCC countries face growing constraints in agricultural capacity. Structural factors are exacerbating pressures on food prices. A new report from Standard Chartered supports additional investment in agriculture.
Gulf banks launch 3 major Islamic investment projects
- Gulf Times
- 28 August 2008
Three major multi-billion Shariah-based projects to boost infrastructure, agriculture and hospitality sectors in GCC and elsewhere in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia were launched here yesterday.
Merauke mega-project raises food fears
- Down to Earth
- 01 August 2008
A food mega-project planned for a vast area in the Papuan district of Merauke is causing concern that indigenous people's land will be taken and their livelihoods destroyed.
Gulf states look to harvest food from investment in Asia
- AFP
- 20 July 2008
One issue reportedly delaying UAE investment in Pakistan is the Gulf state appearing to want “blanket exemption” from Islamabad’s agricultural export policies.
Agriculture: an investment growth story
- Global Pensions
- 11 July 2008
There is growing interest in agricultural land, which Bramdean Asset Management is looking at and believes has huge potential
RSG set to enhance rice production
- The Tide News
- 19 June 2008
The Rivers State Government has reiterated its resolve to create an enabling environment to enhance rice production and processing, as well as promote and protect other agricultural business interests in the state.
UAE may invest US$500m in Pakistan farms
- The National
- 08 June 2008
The Government is considering the purchase of farmland worth US$500 million (Dh1.8 billion) in Pakistan as part of a strategy to lower food import costs.
A new national strategy for agriculture
- Oxford Business Group
- 12 January 2008
The Moroccan government has pursued a strategy of leasing state-farms previously under the management of Société de Développement Agricole (SODEA). A large number of bids were made by agricultural businesses from France, Egypt, Spain and the United Arab Emirates.
Seedlings of evil growing in Myanmar
- Asia Times
- 23 August 2007
A military-driven Chinese hybrid rice-for-opium crop-substitution program in the northern part of Myanmar's Shan state has resulted in four consecutive years of poor harvests and driven many ethnic-minority farmers into heavy debt or out of rice farming altogether.
China, Mozambique: old friends, new business
- ISN Security Watch
- 13 August 2007
In 2006, Beijing and Maputo signed a memorandum of understanding concerning the creation of a massive agricultural project in the Zambezi river valley area.
3,000 Chinese farmers to farm abroad
- China Daily
- 18 December 2003
Hundreds of farmers in Northwest China are expected to toil the soil in the neighboring Republic of Kazakhstan next spring. "We have signed a deal with Kazakhstan to rent 7,000 hectares of land in Alakol county for use for 10 years," a local agricultural official said.