Pakistan is pushing ahead with a plan to sell or lease agriculture land to foreign investors even as opposition grows at home.

Tanzania has offered to lease land to Indian private companies for a period of 99 years, as it pitched for increased investment in the agricultural sector.

PAVA offers its shares to Gulf investors for food supplies. It will start road show to UAE and Saudi in October.

Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif on Monday sought a report and comments from the federal government by September 29 on a petition challenging the proposed sale or lease of millions of acres of agricultural land to other countries.

Ethiopia’s government ruling tribal junta has defended its plan to offer 2.7 million hectares of farmland to foreign companies despite millions of citizens who need food aid from the international community.

Sheik Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi, the second richest person in Saudi Arabia, is preparing to farm cereals on hundreds of thousands of hectares of Ethiopian land for export to Saudi Arabia

Oman has decided to appoint a specialist company to prepare the Sultanate's national strategy for food security.

American drone attacks against the Taliban are routinely condemned in Pakistan as violations of national sovereignty. But there is little criticism of how our own government is threatening the country's territorial integrity by engineering the lease of millions of acres to foreign investors.

Philippine President Arroyo will meet with Saudi Minister of Agriculture Fahd Bin Abdulrahman Balghunaim to discuss bilateral agricultural projects and with members of the Saudi business community for talks on proposals for investments in the Philippines.

There are better means to meet the food needs of the Saudis than to lease thm land that belongs to the state and the people of Pakistan

What started as a government drive to secure cheap food resource has now become a viable business model and many Gulf companies are venturing into agricultural investments to diversify their portfolios.

Nazar Gondal said that government of Saudi Arabia has shown interest to acquire some land in Pakistan for farming but there was no progress in this regard so far.