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    • Saudi in talks to lease Pakistan farmland
      • Reuters
      • 01 September 2009

      In April, concerns over farmers’ rights led the government of Pakistan’s Balochistan province to block direct deals between United Arab Emirates-based private investors and farmers.

    • Russia eyes Japan investment in farms, ports
      • Reuters
      • 31 August 2009

      Russia is in talks with Japanese companies to secure investment in Siberian farmland and Pacific ports that would allow the world's No. 3 wheat exporter to carve a greater share of Asian markets, a senior grain official said.

    • Agricultural FDI: Global land grab or good business?
      • World Bank
      • 31 August 2009

      The World Bank Group’s Investment Climate Advisory Service is developing a new set of indicators called the Investing Across Borders project.

    • Land transfer: Consulting rural communities
      • Spore
      • 31 August 2009

      "They are selling off African land for a song," said Ndiogou Fall, president of the executive committee for the Network of Peasant Organizations and Producers in West Africa (ROPPA), which is calling for dialogue between governments, producers and African and foreign investors.

    • The 'cursed career'
      • Bangkok Post
      • 31 August 2009

      Palong Piroomyu, a 52-year-old farmer from Bang Len in Nakhon Pathom province, is preparing to sell his portion of farmland to a Bangkok-based buyer. He's not concerned about who the buyers are or that some may even be quietly representing foreigners.

    • Farming and foreigners
      • Bangkok Post
      • 31 August 2009

      The Bangkok Post asked two prominent figures to discuss the pros and cons of foreign farmland ownership.

    • Gulf investors more covert on land deals
      • Daily Nation
      • 30 August 2009

      Land buying firms no longer disclose their identities to avoid tarnishing their image

    • Pakistan: Our leaders' voluntary submission to colonisation
      • News International
      • 26 August 2009

      Instead of offering incentives on a similar scale to local farmers, Islamabad is offering legal and tax concessions, with legislative cover, to foreign investors in the form of specialised agricultural and livestock 'free zones' and may also introduce legislation to exempt such investors from government-imposed tax bans. The most worrisome aspect of such wheeling-dealing is the government's decision to develop a new security force of 100,000 men spread across the four provinces to ensure stability of the Arab investments.

    • Djibouti / pays du COMESA : Acquisition de terres arables
      • La Nation
      • 26 August 2009

      "Jamais deux sans trois", dit-on. L'adage se vérifie avec la concession du Malawi, après l'Ethiopie, de quelques 55 000 ha de terres agricoles en faveur de Djibouti.

    • Nominee ownership under watch
      • Bangkok Post
      • 25 August 2009

      Mr Patima, of Colliers International, said trying to block overseas investment in Thai agricultural land, especially from the Middle East where food supplies were scarce, was next to impossible

    • Ministry of Agriculture gives state land under lease agreement
      • MPT
      • 25 August 2009

      Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management issued Tuesday an announcement offering 765 hectares of state agricultural land under lease agreement for periods varying between 15 and 50 years.

    • Ukraine's agricultural revolution
      • BBC
      • 24 August 2009

      "The reasons [Ukrainians] choose to lease [Landkom] their land has nothing to do with money - it is an emotional desire to see their region go forward, that's all," says Paul Spinks.

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