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Qatar is eyeing food investment in Belarus
- Gulf Times
- 25 November 2009
Belarus has fertile land for agriculture and Hassad Food is evaluating different features in such markets like ease of laws
Jim Rogers on why gold is glittering so brightly
- Business Week
- 25 November 2009
"It's very, very cheap, it's incredibly fertile, and it hasn't been overexploited. And if you take in some expertise and some machinery and some fertilizer, you should make a lot of money," says investment guru Jim Rogers of Africa's farmlands
Land rush in Africa
- Business Week
- 25 November 2009
Agribusiness and global investors are scooping up farmland. Are corporate farmers the new colonialists? asks BusinessWeek
RP eyes agribusiness investments from Middle East
- Philippine Daily Inquirer
- 25 November 2009
A delegation from the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce will be in Manila on Friday and Saturday for a briefing on potential food production investment sites in the Philippines.
Program food estate bukan solusi mendongkrak produksi padi nasional
- Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI)
- 24 November 2009
Henry Saragih, Ketua Umum Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI) menyesalkan langkah yang diambil pemerintah untuk mendongkrak produksi padi nasional melalui program food estate. Pengembangan food estate justru bertentangan dengan upaya pemerintah mendorong ekonomi kerakyatan, khususnya ekonomi kaum tani.
Food Estate is Not a Solution to Increase National Rice Production
- Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI)
- 24 November 2009
The food estate program will shift the character of Indonesian agriculture from family farming to corporate based food and agriculture production and weaken national food sovereignty.
Pension funds seek out agricultural assets
- Global Pensions
- 24 November 2009
Pension funds are seeking out agricultural and commodity-related assets that offer diversification from traditional asset classes and superior returns to listed equities.
OECD: Pressures on West African land
- OECD
- 24 November 2009
In response to increased commercial interest in West African land, the Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC/OECD) is leading a regional dialogue with key stakeholders in Bamako on 9 December 2009
Wikileaks: UAE develops food security policy
- Wikileaks
- 24 November 2009
"Al Shariqi said that while the government does not have foreign agricultural investments, some UAE sheikhs personally own land in Pakistan, Egypt, Australia and New Zealand," reports the US mission in Abu Dhabi
Al-Amoudi’s efforts to initiate Saudi agro investments
- Addis Fortune
- 24 November 2009
Sources close to Al-Amoudi said that the king has shown an interest in seeing other Saudi companies involved in rice farming after seeing the samples presented by Al-Amoudi
Morocco - Drop in foreign farm investment
- Meat Trade Daily
- 24 November 2009
At a two-day conference near the Moroccan capital Rabat, local officials sought to convince Gulf investors that heavy bureaucracy and complex land ownership rules, long seen as decisive obstacles, are a thing of the past.
Extraterritoriality - Foreign Concessions: the Past and Future of a Form of Shared Sovereignty
- EspacesTemps.net
- 23 November 2009
China has now taken on a leading role in promoting modernization through zones of exception, not only in China but also outside it.