Saudi Arabia

Pakistan: Will land leases worsen hunger at home?
- IRIN
- 22 September 2009
Fears have been raised of a possible increase in food insecurity in Pakistan if a deal to lease out 202,342.8 hectares of farmland to Saudi Arabia goes ahead.
Saudi threat to India's basmati
- India Today
- 22 September 2009
"The real worry is that IRRI may help Saudi Arabia produce aromatic rice varieties in Pakistan where these countries have bought large tracts of lands," food policy commentator Devinder Sharma said. "India and Pakistan are already bitter rivals in the Basmati export segment."
Corporate farming
- Dawn
- 18 September 2009
During Pervez Musharraf’s time, Beijing had proposed that it be leased 2,000 acres of land for a period of 10 to 15 years with the agreement that China would make technological and financial investments in the land, invest in newer forms of seeds and other products and leave the new infrastructure to the state or the owners after the termination of the contract.
The business of land
- The News
- 17 September 2009
It is unfortunate that even as deals that involve land which should belong to the people of Pakistan are struck, there has been so little public debate about the plan. We need to be informed of what is planned. Protests need too to be mobilized. In the prevailing political environment of Pakistan, the people who stand to lose the most have almost no spokesmen.
El neocolonialismo agrario amenaza con dejar sin alimentos a los países en desarrollo
- Capital News
- 15 September 2009
Casi 20 millones de hectáreas en África, Asia o América Latina han pasado a manos de gobiernos o inversores privados extranjeros
Russia's Pava to start Gulf farmland roadshow in Oct
- Reuters
- 15 September 2009
PAVA offers its shares to Gulf investors for food supplies. It will start road show to UAE and Saudi in October.
Al Amoudi’s hunt for arable land swells to half a million hectares
- Addis Fortune
- 14 September 2009
Sheik Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi, the second richest person in Saudi Arabia, is preparing to farm cereals on hundreds of thousands of hectares of Ethiopian land for export to Saudi Arabia
Arroyo to visit KSA next week
- Saudi Gazette
- 13 September 2009
Philippine President Arroyo will meet with Saudi Minister of Agriculture Fahd Bin Abdulrahman Balghunaim to discuss bilateral agricultural projects and with members of the Saudi business community for talks on proposals for investments in the Philippines.
Pakistan: Leasing land
- The News
- 13 September 2009
There are better means to meet the food needs of the Saudis than to lease thm land that belongs to the state and the people of Pakistan
Corporate farming to boost agriculture, economy : Kaira
- Associated Press of Pakistan
- 12 September 2009
Nazar Gondal said that government of Saudi Arabia has shown interest to acquire some land in Pakistan for farming but there was no progress in this regard so far.
Pakistan: Highly questionable farmland deals
- Business Recorder
- 10 September 2009
The problem is that we will lose control. Of course, some regulatory framework will be put in place, but it will also include ceding of control over our land resource to foreigners for a yet-to-be-specified time period.
El GCIAI se une al caparamiento de tierras de cultivo a nivel global
- GRAIN
- 10 September 2009
Un documento interno, puesto recientemente en la página electrónica del IRRI revela que el instituto ha estado aconsejando a Arabia Saudita en el contexto de su estrategia para adquirir tierras de cultivo en otros países para cumplir con su propia producción alimentaria.