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    • US investor buys Sudanese warlord’s land
      • Financial Times
      • 09 January 2009

      A US businessman backed by former CIA and state department officials says he has secured a vast tract of fertile land in south Sudan from the family of a notorious warlord.

    • Quest to create a new Sudan bread basket
      • Financial Times
      • 09 January 2009

      Unity state, where Philippe Heilberg, a US businessman, says he has secured a huge tract of arable land, is inaccessible even by south Sudan’s standards. Apart from AK-47 assault rifles, it is deprived of most of the trappings of the modern world.

    • Betting on the Russian farm
      • Institutional Investor
      • 08 January 2009

      "We are seeing a land grab bigger than anywhere else in the world, and it has attracted a mighty cast of characters," says Kingsmill Bond, chief strategist at Troika Dialog, a Moscow brokerage firm.

    • Investments by UAE in Egypt reach $2.9 billion
      • Emirates Business 24/7
      • 08 January 2009

      Egypt will receive a number of UAE delegations next month to discuss proposals involving agriculture, land reclamation and the food industry in southern Egypt, as well as infrastructure and renewable energy projects.

    • Qatar land deal not unique to Kenya
      • The Standard (Nairobi)
      • 06 January 2009

      The reported land deal between Kenya and Qatar is not unique. The Philippines Department of Agrarian Reform said in 2007 it was looking at large tracts of land for agribusiness development under a MoU signed with China. The memo calls for the development of land to grow hybrid corn, rice and sorghum.

    • Activists say 'land grab' in poor nations driven by global trends
      • AFP
      • 04 January 2009

      Walden Bello said that many of the deals were struck in dysfunctional and corruption-ridden nations, and rejected claims the land being signed away is of poor quality, and that the projects will bring jobs and improve infrastructure. “What we’re talking about is private parties using state contracts to enrich themselves,” he said. “It’s an intersection of corrupt governments and land-hungry nations.”

    • 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

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