• Saudi firm to invest $3 bln in Turkey farms
    • Reuters
    • 10 July 2009

    Private Saudi firm Planet Food World (PFWC) will invest around $3 billion in agriculture in Turkey over the next five years to export food products to the Gulf region, the head of its Turkish unit said.

  • Sudan will put its agricultural resources at Africa’s disposal
    • Sudan Tribune
    • 02 July 2009

    The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir told the African Union summit in Libya that Sudan is willing to put its resources at the disposal of the continent.

  • Kingdom, Canada boost trade ties
    • Saudi Gazette
    • 28 June 2009

    Trade minister Stockwell Day said that Canada stands to benefit from the Saudi Kingdom’s overseas agricultural investment initiative and that the Canadian Parliament is studying it.

  • Il n’y a pas que les vaches qui rient
    • Madagacasr-Tribune.com
    • 22 June 2009

    Dans tout le flou et le vague qui règnent autour du projet Daewoo, il y avait au moins une certitude : les Sud-coréens se proposaient de louer des terres qui seraient restées à Madagascar. L’eau de Faraony quant à elle, quittera bel et bien la Grande Ile, et en grande quantité.

  • Food security: We need a strategy for rice
    • Jakarta Post
    • 17 June 2009

    Singapore's Temasek is seeking to buy land in North Bolaang Mongondow, North Sulawesi, where they plan to grow high-quality rice.

  • Almarai in $115m deal to buy Egyptian firm
    • Reuters
    • 13 June 2009

    Saudi-based Almarai has agreed to buy Egyptian firm Beyti for $115 million, allowing a new joint venture with Pepsico to set foot in the Arab world's most populous nation. The price tag includes a 75-hectare piece of land.

  • Topraktan 20 milyar dolar çıkacak
    • CBNC-e
    • 10 June 2009

    Suudi tarım şirketi Planet Food World, Türkiye'de 20 milyar dolar yatırımla 5 yılda 20 bin modüler organik çiftlik kuracak.

  • Asia: Land grabs threaten food security
    • IRIN
    • 10 June 2009

    Sam Pov, a rice farmer in Cambodia’s western Battambang Province, is very worried that his land will be taken over by a foreign investor.

  • Betting the farm
    • Fortune/CNN
    • 10 June 2009

    As world population expands, the demand for arable land should soar. At least that's what George Soros, Lord Rothschild, and other investors believe.

  • Africa becomes wary of farm deals: land activist
    • Reuters
    • 09 June 2009

    African nations are becoming more cautious in selling farmland to foreign investors, with governments paying closer attention to deals that could lead to social unrest, AGRA says

  • Inside the barley republic
    • Ethiomedia
    • 08 June 2009

    What we are witnessing in countries like Ethiopia today is an extreme form of the banana republic syndrome.

  • Gulf states show interest in Thai farms
    • Reuters
    • 08 June 2009

    A number of Gulf states have expressed interest in livestock and rice farming in Thailand to secure food supplies, a Thai official said on Monday. "The countries involved could be Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar or the UAE," he added.

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