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    • U.S. firm to invest in agriculture in South Sudan
      • Sudan Tribune
      • 03 January 2009

      A privately held US investment firm entered into an agricultural investment with a company controlled by the son of a South Sudanese general.

    • Corporate farming and food security
      • Dawn
      • 29 December 2008

      As investment-starved Pakistan puts its 1.1 million acres of agriculture land on the auction block next year, farmers wonder what it would mean for food security and social fabric of the country.

    • Move to lease land to the Qatari is ill-advised
      • Daily Nation
      • 27 December 2008

      The area around Tana Delta which the government seeks to lease to the Qatari is of immense strategic value. It is fertile, has fresh water and, more importantly, is located in a region that has the highest potential oil and gas deposits in the country as well as other mineral deposits.

    • 1st Arab economic summit to address financial crisis
      • Xinhua
      • 24 December 2008

      Arab Economic, Development and Social Summit to be held in Kuwait next month would focus on the global financial crisis, infrastructure in the Arab world and social issues, coordinator general for the summit said on Tuesday.

    • 'Global land grab' causing alarm among NGOs
      • AFP
      • 23 December 2008

      The global food and financial crises have combined to create a new form of colonialism in which countries short of resources and corporations desperate for profits are buying up arable land in emerging nations, NGOs say. The non-governmental organisations have expressed concern at this "global land grab," which they say is threatening the survival of rural livelihoods in some parts of the world.

    • Un Chinois à Dakar: M. Riping, roi du sésame
      • Le Nouvel Observateur
      • 23 December 2008

      Pour la République populaire, il est un héros du programme Go Abroad. Sa mission, hautement stratégique : investir les terres africaines pour y cultiver la petite graine magique

    • Nigeria: NDDC Enters N46 Billion Pact On Rice Production
      • Vanguard
      • 22 December 2008

      The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has entered into a 25-year pact with a private investor to boost rice production.

    • Notes to broadcasters on foreign-owned farmland
      • Farm Radio Weekly
      • 22 December 2008

      Dependence on oil imports may be influencing the Ethiopian government’s decision to lease farmland to Saudi Arabia

    • Insecurity drives farm purchases abroad
      • The Christian Science Monitor
      • 22 December 2008

      Land acquisitions abroad are the only viable response, Mohammed Raouf, program manager of environment research at the Gulf Research Center, and others say.

    • Madgascar, Kenya question widsom of foreign land deals
      • Global Voices
      • 21 December 2008

      Such blockbuster deals neglect to take into consideration the true interests of the farmers

    • Lamu port deal: Kenya to sell Tana Delta land
      • The East African
      • 20 December 2008

      Proposals to sell off around 16,200 hectares of land in the Tana River delta to Qatar to grow vegetables and fruit in return for a new port in Lamu have again raised concerns for the future of the environmentally important area.

    • Foreign investors may get legal cover
      • The News (Pakistan)
      • 20 December 2008

      The Pakistan government is all set to provide legal cover through parliament to protect foreign investors and their investment in all sectors particularly agriculture. “We are in talks with investors from Gulf states, particularly Saudi Arabia, for investment in corporate farming. Investors will be ensured repatriation of 100 per cent crop yield to their countries even in case Pakistan faces food deficit,” Federal Investment Minister Waqar Ahmad Khan said.

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