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PTI11 Aug 10ASSOCHAM, India's apex industry body, has sent a proposal to the external affairs ministry offering to act as facilitator to help Indian farmers get farmland in Africa.
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Bloomberg01 Aug 10Citadel Capital Corp., an Egyptian private-equity firm with $8.3 billion in investments, said one of its companies received a $4.9 million loan from Bank of Khartoum for the plantation of land in Sudan.
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TradeArabia01 Aug 10Wafra, Citadel Capital’s agriculture platform in Sudan, said its portfolio firm has obtained a $4.9 million loan from Bank of Khartoum to support the farming of its first 2,076 acres of sorghum.
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Reuters31 Jul 10Exports would target markets in the EU, where demand is rising, Sudan's nine neighbours as well as the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Arab world.
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Sudqn Tribune21 Jul 10Another approach to achieve food security in South Sudan is to avail land to foreign nationals interested in commercial farming
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Reuters16 Jul 10Standard Bank plans to finance more land deals involving South African farmers seeking expansion opportunities across the continent to grow export crops, the bank said on Friday.
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Reuters09 Jul 10A South African farmers group said on Friday it had received fresh offers from African states, including Sudan and Mozambique, to invest in agriculture to grow export crops and some of the deals will be concluded soon.
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Jordan Times07 Jul 10Discussions are at a standstill after investors, a joint Arab-foreign company based in the Philippines, insist on owning the lands allocated by the Sudanese government to Jordan for the project,
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EAAE Seminar02 Jul 10The paper attempts to present an integrated look at international investments in agriculture from a systems
perspective, focusing on Arab investments in Sudan.
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Gulf Times01 Jun 10Hassad Food Company intends to invest $500mn to $700mn this year for projects across the world as part of its mission to ensure food security for Qatar, chairman and managing director Nasser bin Mohamed Mubarak al-Fuhaid al-Hajri has said.
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![Arab food security or land grab?]( "Arab food security or land grab?")
Land and People03 May 10Do we or do we not want to promote Arab agricultural integration and to foster inter Arab investments in farming?
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UPI29 Apr 10As African leaders, many out to line their own pockets, sign away their people's land to foreigners, the continent's people face not having enough food to eat.
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Nature25 Apr 10"A key obstacle to more transparent debate and informed decisions by governments and investors [involved in global land transactions] is the lack of science-based information," writes Surendra Shah in Nature magazine
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![African land grab not a cure to Arab food concerns]( "African land grab not a cure to Arab food concerns")
Reuters07 Apr 10Interview with Wadid Erian of the Arab Centre for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands.
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Zawya06 Apr 10El-Nahda for Integrated Solutions signed an agreement with the White Nile Governorate for a 30-year lease on 60,000 feddans [25,210 ha] of land on which it will build a large-scale commercial rice farm.
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InfoChange India05 Apr 10Countries that have recently invited India, through the ministry of agriculture, to lease land for farming include Egypt, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Senegal, Sudan, Trinidad and Tobago and Tunisia.
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SUNA30 Mar 10The fund is targeting individual investors and institutions as well as government-owned funds in the region, and will focus on the production of crops and livestock in Sudan and food processing in Egypt.
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RPP Perú29 Mar 10Comprar tierras agrícolas, principalmente en África y América Latina, es una apuesta poco arriesgada, dado el rápido crecimiento de la población mundial a alimentar, señalan los expertos.
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Reuters23 Mar 10"We are launching the fund with the aim of deploying up to $1 billion for large-scale agricultural projects," Beltone told Reuters.
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![Chinese firm given land deal in Sudan]( "Chinese firm given land deal in Sudan")
Sudan Tribune16 Mar 10The Chinese company ZTE received an allocation of approximately 10,000 hectares of land from the Ministry of Agriculture. The deal aims at boosting production of wheat and maize, state media reported.