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21 February 2010Jordan and Kazakhstan are considering a joint venture to produce grain in Kazakh territories to secure the Kingdom's needs at fair prices.
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22 January 2010The government is working to attract local and foreign investors to finance the Jordanian agricultural mega-project in Sudan, said a senior official. "One international company has shown interest in taking part in the project so far," the minister told The Jordan Times
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![Gulf company interested in Sudan farming project]( "Gulf company interested in Sudan farming project")
6 December 2009The 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.
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1 December 2009"I think it is not right to sell or give your land to foreigners... until you have exhausted every local possibility," said Osama Daoud, chief executive of the Sudanese DAL group which runs large agricultural projects.
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26 November 2009Inversores árabes y asiáticos buscan tomar el control de amplias extensiones de tierras fértiles en Sudán, el país más grande de África, que quiere convertirse en el granero de Oriente Medio, aunque para ello deberá modernizar primero su agricultura.
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17 November 2009Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi calls it the “new feudalism.” Groups representing peasant farmers call it “land grabs.” The United Nations literature dispersed at this week's UN food summit in Rome calls it “direct foreign investment.”
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16 November 2009"We decided to update a previous feasibility study due to the fact that the prices of food items that will potentially be grown on the project's lands, including fodder and grains, have changed drastically over the past year," Jordan's Agriculture Ministry Secretary General Radhi Tarawneh said
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8 October 2009The Sudanese government will take back a plot of land allocated for a Jordanian agricultural megaproject if the government does not implement the project within two weeks
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27 September 2009"We have acquired a very large piece of agricultural land in the Nile Delta – a 15,000 sq km tract of land where we will be producing for international markets, including the Arab World."
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8 June 2009The government said on Sunday that a draft agreement with the private sector on the stalled Jordanian agricultural megaproject in Sudan is being finalised in order to be sent to the Cabinet for approval.v
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3 May 2009Agricultural investment in Sudan by Arab countries looking to guarantee supplies of staples such as wheat for their people will account for up to 50 percent of all investment in the country from 2010
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![The growing lust for agricultural lands]( "The growing lust for agricultural lands")
14 April 2009Not a day goes by without new acreage being signed over. "For Sale" ads for agricultural property are now featured in the international financial press. And there's no dearth of clients.
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14 April 2009"Je crois que les tensions seront inévitables où que ce soit, faisant des enclaves agricoles étrangères de véritables forteresses assiégées."
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![Jordan to move forward on agricultural investments in Sudan]( "Jordan to move forward on agricultural investments in Sudan")
11 April 2009Jordan will dispatch a delegation to Sudan next Thursday headed by its agriculture minister Saeed Al-Masri to discuss an agreement on developing food farms in the East African country, according to media reports.
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![Jusqu’où ira la razzia sur les terres agricoles des pays pauvres ?]( "Jusqu’où ira la razzia sur les terres agricoles des pays pauvres ?")
1 March 2009La FAO s’apprête à sortir ces jours-ci un mode d’emploi sur la bonne gouvernance foncière. Histoire que le nouveau droit foncier de Madagascar ne soit pas défini par Daewoo Logistics. Et que les petits paysans du Sud participent enfin au débat
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30 January 2009Wealthy countries short of fertile land are gazing hungrily at Canada's prairies
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![Saudi Arabia Launches $5.3b Agricultural Fund]( "Saudi Arabia Launches $5.3b Agricultural Fund")
27 January 2009The Saudi Arabian cabinet on Monday decided to establish a $5.3-billion fund to support agricultural development by offering soft loans and necessary credit facilities, the Saudi daily newspaper Saudi Gazette reported.
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![Agricultural investment in Sudan to resume early 2009]( "Agricultural investment in Sudan to resume early 2009")
30 November 2008The stalled Jordanian agricultural megaproject in Sudan is expected to be resumed at the beginning of 2009
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![Sudan spends $1.5 billion to develop agriculture]( "Sudan spends $1.5 billion to develop agriculture")
5 October 2008Sudanese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will spend three billion Sudanese pounds (1.5 billion USD) up to the end of the year to implement a massive program to develop the agricultural sector.
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![Global Scramble to Own Food and Agricultural Assets]( "Global Scramble to Own Food and Agricultural Assets")
5 September 2008On the heels of tight crop production reports and the recent memory of individual nations experiencing food disruptions, there is a scramble to control or own agricultural assets and food stocks.