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    • Sheik’s new agro firm shells out $80m
      • Addis Fortune
      • 12 October 2009

      Al Amoudi has a new company whose purpose is to grow food in Ethiopia for Saudi Arabia.

    • Black earth stirs investors in Russia
      • AFP
      • 12 October 2009

      Swedish company Black Earth Farming (BEF) since 2006 has bought 300,000 hectares (740,000 acres) of Russian farmland after the government finally allowed land to be privatised after decades of state ownership.

    • Chinese investors descend on Masindi
      • The Observer
      • 11 October 2009

      Hebei Company plans to grow its operations -- wheat, maize, rice, vegetable and livestock production for the local, Chinese and European markets -- to about 100,000 acres [40,500 ha] of land in 8-10 years.

    • Gulf Arab states to launch $2 bln agriculture fund
      • Reuters
      • 11 October 2009

      Gulf Arab states will pour $2 billion into a new agricultural fund in coming months to secure food supplies by buying stakes in existing agricultural firms, an executive involved in the fund's creation said on Sunday.

    • ‘Food production crisis looms over country’
      • The News
      • 11 October 2009

      In view of food insecurity in Pakistan and dozens of women losing their lives just to get a few kilos of flour, there was no justification of selling agricultural land to foreigners, said Dr Azra Talat Sayeed

    • Pakistan: Civil society against land lease to aliens
      • The Nation
      • 11 October 2009

      International experts and representatives of civil society have demanded an end to land leasing to foreign investors and countries.

    • S.Africa says offered land in Uganda, Angola, Zambia
      • Reuters
      • 10 October 2009

      South Africa said on Friday it had been offered 48 square miles of land in Angola and Uganda and also a land lease agreement in Zambia.

    • South African farmers offered land in Angola, Uganda
      • Bloomberg
      • 09 October 2009

      South African farmers have been offered land for agriculture in Angola and Uganda and the government is also in talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Southern Sudan.

    • Foreigners own more US farmland
      • Delta Farm Press
      • 09 October 2009

      Foreigners have an interest (partial or total ownership) in 1.6 percent of all privately held US agricultural land, a 1.4 million acre increase from 2007.

    • Newsline: The Saudi factor
      • Newsline
      • 09 October 2009

      Special issue on the Pakistani government's plans to dole out domestic farmlands to the Gulf countries on 99-year lease for corporate farming.

    • Corporate farming…A wise development strategy or land grab?
      • Desertification
      • 08 October 2009

      Critics say that by seeking to solve their food shortage problem through foreign farmland acquisitions, the rich emerging economies may succeed in producing enough quantity for their populations but may in the long-term be exporting their food insecurity to other nations.

    • The great land grab: Rush for world's farmland threatens food security for the poor
      • Oakland Institute
      • 08 October 2009

      A new report from the Oakland Institute lays bare the insidious role played by international financial institutions like the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank and Foreign Investment Advisory Service, as well as rich nations, in promoting and facilitating this widespread land reappropriation--all in the name of promoting food security through foreign investment in agriculture.

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