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  • UAE may invest US$500m in Pakistan farms
    • The National
    • 08 June 2008

    The Government is considering the purchase of farmland worth US$500 million (Dh1.8 billion) in Pakistan as part of a strategy to lower food import costs.

  • High food prices make oil sheikhs turn to farming
    • Economic Times
    • 02 June 2008

    To break the runaway inflation that is fuelled by high food costs, Gulf rulers have a new strategy: they are buying unused agricultural land in poor countries like Pakistan, Thailand and Sudan, and becoming large-scale farmers.

  • UAE investors buy Pakistan farmland
    • Financial Times
    • 11 May 2008

    Dubai-based Abraaj Capital, one of the Middle East’s largest private equity companies, has been quietly buying farmland in Pakistan as part of plans by the United Arab Emirates to increase food security and to damp inflation.

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