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    • South Sudan looking into US land deal
      • Reuters
      • 27 January 2009

      South Sudan's administration is looking into a 4,000 sq km land investment by a US businessman because of questions over who owns the plot, a senior official said on Tuesday.

    • Dozens of bodies found after Madagascar political unrest: officials
      • AFP
      • 27 January 2009

      At least 31 bodies have been found in the Madagascar capital after protests called by an opponent of the president turned violent, taking the toll in the unrest to 34, officials said Tuesday.

    • Saudi Gets First Rice Produced by Locals Abroad
      • Reuters
      • 27 January 2009

      Saudi Arabia, one of the world's biggest rice importers, has received the first batch of rice to be produced abroad by local investors, state news agency SPA reported on Monday.

    • Saudi Arabia Launches $5.3b Agricultural Fund
      • Media Line
      • 27 January 2009

      The Saudi Arabian cabinet on Monday decided to establish a $5.3-billion fund to support agricultural development by offering soft loans and necessary credit facilities, the Saudi daily newspaper Saudi Gazette reported.

    • Nograles, Saudi Agriculture minister eyes creation of Saudi-Phils. Special Zone for Peace and Devt.
      • Philippine HoR
      • 27 January 2009

      Speaker Nograles pushed for Saudi-Philippines partnership to develop some 26,000 ha of government property in Central Mindanao into a major agri-industrial production and processing complex.

    • Madagascar's President Calls For Talks With Main Opponent
      • AFP
      • 27 January 2009

      Madagascar's President Marc Ravalomanana called Tuesday for talks with his main opponent, Antananarivo Mayor Andry Rajoelina, the day after anti-government protests turned violent.

    • Nations turn to barter deals to secure food
      • Financial Times
      • 26 January 2009

      Countries struggling to secure credit have resorted to barter and secretive government-to-government deals to buy food, with some contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars.I

    • King Abdullah Initiative for Saudi agricultural investment abroad
      • Saudi Arabia Ministry of Foreign Affairs
      • 26 January 2009

      Planning these investments was carried out according to the following agricultural investment principles and criteria...

    • Saudi King’s commitment to help Mindanao secured
      • Business Mirror
      • 26 January 2009

      Speaker Prosopero Nograles expressed optimism that the Philippines will be able to provide the food requirements of the Kingdom through possible Saudi investments in Mindanao.

    • Accelerating into disaster – when banks manage the food crisis
      • IPC
      • 26 January 2009

      As the vicious food price crisis deepens, transnational companies are moving into southern countries on a huge scale and starting to capture millions of hectares of land in order to bring agricultural production further under their control for industrial agrofuel and food production for the international market. Millions of peasants will be pushed out of food production, adding to the hungry in the rural areas and the slums of the big cities. The few that remain will work under full control of the transnational companies as workers or contract farmers.

    • Turkey can attract $9b in Gulf Arab funding
      • Reuters
      • 25 January 2009

      Turkey can attract up to $9 billion funds from Gulf Arab funds, mainly in food and agriculture, the head of the Turkish Investment Support and Promotion Agency said on Monday. "We are working on a big project for the southeastern Anatolia region."

    • Qatar-Lanka ties ‘set to get a boost’
      • Gulf Times
      • 25 January 2009

      Qatar could invest in Sri Lanks’s agricultural sector, Ambassador Vijayasiri Padukkag pointed out. In the Eastern province, he said, there was plenty of vacant arable land where farms can be established.

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