UAE

Glencore: Profiteering from hunger and chaos
- Al Jazeera
- 09 May 2011
The world's largest commodities trader and major farmland owner is issuing a stock sale, and critics say the firm causes spikes in food prices.
Glencore reveals secrets of success in agriculture
- Agrimoney
- 05 May 2011
Glencore has an 8.7% share of the "addressable" global grain trade and farming operations covering 270,000ha in Argentina, Australia, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Ukraine.
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala studies billions of investment in Brazil
- The National
- 02 May 2011
Company's chief operating officer expected to return next month to look at agriculture investments.
Food 'as vital an issue as oil', says Geldof
- The National
- 29 April 2011
"It's criminal that available land that can be properly irrigated and cultivated in a modern sense, where new techniques are tried and taught to local farmers, is not yet put into production," says Bob Geldof.
Flawed food supply structure could cause mass starvation
- Gulf News
- 29 April 2011
Richer countries that are investing in land abroad for food cultivation should also educate the poor about agricultural methods, so that food production can be increased to a level at which poor people can produce enough for investing countries as well as themselves, says Bob Geldof.
UAE in talks to invest in Australian farmland
- Arabian Business
- 24 April 2011
The UAE plans to hold further talks with officials from Australia with a view to invest in farmland as part of its plan to tackle food security.
Missing food security
- Pakistan Observer
- 18 April 2011
UAE is ready to build small dams for cultivation on lands they would acquire in Pakistan, provided the government ensures that there is no ban on exports.
Sudan, UAE sign Memo of Understanding on Protection and Encouragement of Investment
- SUNA
- 17 April 2011
Sudan and UAE have agreed to concentrate investment in the field of agriculture, referring that the UAE Al-Thahra Company expressed desire to invest in Sudan as strategic partner in the food security projects.
Foreign investors run fingers through Ukraine's black earth
- bne
- 15 April 2011
Chinese and other eastern investors are looking to buy agriculture land and agribusiness across the globe, and Ukraine is increasingly on their radar.
South Sudan threatened by land grab
- NPA
- 23 Mar 2011
Four months before South Sudan becomes an independant nation nine percent of the country has been targeted by investors, a Norwegian People's Aid report reveals.
UAE eyes investment in Chinese agriculture sector
- Emirates 24/7
- 12 Mar 2011
The UAE and other Gulf states in collaboration with Singapore companies are entering the Chinese agriculture market to ensure food security.
Investing abroad to secure food at home
- Gulf News
- 09 Mar 2011
Gulf states are following in the footsteps of China and looking beyond their shores to make heavy investments in agriculture