Egypt

Lawsuit aims to annul Saudi prince's Toshka land deal
- Daily News
- 21 October 2010
Groups consider land deal "treason", saying its aim is to steal Egyptian water and create a state inside the state.
Egypt’s conundrum over food security and the Nile’s water
- Afrik News
- 14 October 2010
The Egyptian external agricultural land deals are all the more fragile as a future government or policy change in Ethiopia or Sudan risks destabilizing their external food security strategy.
Egypt: Seeking to grow cereals on African farmland
- IRIN
- 11 October 2010
Egypt to lease at least 200,000 acres of farms: government
- Reuters
- 29 September 2010
Egypt will lease at least 200,000 acres of farmland this year for agri-business projects in North Sinai, the North Coast and Upper Egypt, the agriculture minister said on Wednesday.
Egypt's Citadel invests $40 mln in Sudan farms
- Reuters
- 29 September 2010
Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital said it was investing $40 million to grow crops in Sudan, where agricultural spending is increasing as the government moves to address food shortages.
Egypt offers 50,000 acres for farm projects
- Reuters
- 11 September 2010
Egypt will soon offer to lease, for 49 years, 50,000 feddans [21,000 ha] for agri-business projects in North Sinai, the irrigation minister said -- but only to domestic investors.
Egypt signs deal to allow farmland access in Sudan
- Reuters
- 06 September 2010
Egypt's government signed a deal to allow Egyptian companies access to 400,000 hectares of farm land in Sudan, the first deal of its kind between the two countries
Emirates seek overseas feed supply
- Al Dahra
- 16 August 2010
Abu Dhabi’s Al Dahra Agricultural Company is halfway through a plan involving more than 60,700 hectares of farmland in Europe, the US, south Asia and north Africa to boost the UAE’s food security.
Citadel Capital secures loan to develop sorghum plantation in Sudan
- Bloomberg
- 01 August 2010
Citadel 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.
Citadel firm gets $4.9m Sudan farm loan
- TradeArabia
- 01 August 2010
Wafra, 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.
Standard Bank says set to fund more S.Africa farmers
- Reuters
- 16 July 2010
Standard 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.
SAfrica farmers get land offers in Africa
- Reuters
- 09 July 2010
A 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.