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    • Kingdom, Turkey to map out cooperation
      • Arab News
      • 27 October 2009

      Saudi Arabia and Turkey will hold talks to map out a future strategy for cooperation in the agriculture sector on Tuesday.

    • Indonesia says land acquisition stalls Binladin rice investment
      • Reuters
      • 26 October 2009

      The Saudi Binladin Group's $4.3 billion planned investment in Papua, east Indonesia, to develop rice fields has stalled because of problems acquiring land from local people.

    • Giving away the family silver
      • Newsline
      • 26 October 2009

      If all these land deals will be beneficial to Pakistan in the long run, why is the government refusing to divulge the details of what is the citizens’ common property?

    • Protect small farmers: 27 groups tell African leaders
      • African Herald Express
      • 26 October 2009

      Civil society organizations should strengthen and support national and regional networks working against AGRA and land grabs in Africa, say Friends of the Earth and allies

    • Hiber Sugar joins forces for convenience sake
      • Addis Fortune
      • 26 October 2009

      BDFC has already been given 17,400ha of land in 2008 for the production of sugar cane, a year after it came to Ethiopia. It is also getting close to receiving an additional 13,000hct in the same area of the Tana-Beles Basin of Jawi Wereda, Hawi Zone of Amhara Regional State.

    • Visiting Sudan official hails Qatar’s support
      • The Peninsula
      • 26 October 2009

      During his current visit to Qatar, Dr Ismail is scheduled to brief the Qatari officials on a number of projects on food security and agricultural, which would, involve the two countries and ensure food security for both of them with the possibility of overseas export to fill the food shortages afflicting the Arab region and abroad.

    • Egypt's Citadel eyes investments in Kenya, Uganda
      • Reuters
      • 25 October 2009

      Stephen Murphy, managing director of institutional fundraising, said the firm had eyed agriculture and infrastructure investments in Uganda.

    • DA earmarks P40B for support services
      • Philippine Daily Inquirer
      • 25 October 2009

      Many foreign companies are now positioning for investments in the Philippines such as the Far East Agriculture Corp., a consortium of at least 10 agribusiness companies from Saudi Arabia. Next month, these companies are expected go back to the Philippines for site selection in areas of rice, corn, poultry and livestock production.

    • Healthy balance at stake in plans for food security
      • The National
      • 25 October 2009

      UAE foreign investment in food production have so far focused on leasing Pakistan and Sudan’s agricultural land, with new prospects in Cambodian rice, Canadian wheat and Australian beef. Alongside the strategic deals at the national level, private investment has followed which should open new channels of trade, for example, Al Qudra Holding has plans to grow grain and vegetables in Vietnam and Croatia as well as Pakistan.

    • Reflections on Land grabbing
      • Afronline
      • 24 October 2009

      Formally, it is colonialism. Deals are often judicially incomplete. Populations are not part of this process and the traditional law is ignored. Agreements are not transparent.

    • Overseas interest in farming assets
      • Otago Daily Times
      • 24 October 2009

      Cash-rich overseas pension funds and investors have been scouting for New Zealand dairy farm investments,

    • Africa: Could regulation ease fears over land grabs?
      • IPS
      • 23 October 2009

      The Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF) says these land deals exclude farmers and threaten their livelihoods.

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