• L’Egypte veut cultiver son blé en Ouganda
    • Les Afriques
    • 31 October 2008

    La location de terres agricoles en Afrique de l’Est a été initiée par des fonds arabes du Golfe. Voilà que des hommes d’affaires égyptiens veulent produire du blé en Ouganda.

  • Une délégation sud-coréenne en visite au Palais d’Etat d’Iavoloha, en début de soirée de ce jeudi
    • Presidence de la Republique de Madagascar
    • 30 October 2008

    Le Président de la République, Marc Ravalomanana, a reçu en audience ce jeudi 30 octobre 2008 en fin d’après-midi, au Palais d’Iavoloha, une délégation d’opérateurs économiques sud-coréens, conduite par le Président de la Compagnie Daewoo Madagascar

  • Bangladesh-Myanmar contract farming: Opportunity for Bangladesh to meet agricultural shortfall
    • Asian Tribune
    • 29 October 2008

    Myanmar proposed to Bangladesh to take lease of at least 50,000 acres of land in its Rakhine state for contract farming of paddy, onion, maize, soybean, tea, and sugarcane

  • Top Chinese pharmaceutical firm bares plan to invest in herbal facility in Davao Sur
    • Philippine News Agency
    • 27 October 2008

    Yang told the Philippine President that they are eyeing a 10,000-hectare land in Davao del Sur as possible site for their planned laboratory where they will conduct tests on the viability of growing traditional Chinese herbs, the main ingredient of JKG medicines.

  • Asset-backed Real Islamic Investments Offer Remedy to Financial Uncertainties, says UK-based cru Investment Management
    • Zawya
    • 25 October 2008

    The fund, which will invest in commercial agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa, has dual-purpose - to ensure returns in the range of 15-20 per cent, while the investment helps to create jobs and give rural Africans the chance to help themselves out of poverty. Currently, cru has significant exposure to commercial agriculture in Malawi with over 2,500 hectares of land under its own control and another 4,000 hectares in outgrower schemes.

  • Valuable lessons to learn now from the Sudan conflict
    • Jakarta Post - Opinion and Editorial
    • 22 October 2008

    Recently, Sudan was reported to have leased more than 800,000 hectares of its most fertile land to the Saudis. Several other Gulf countries, including Egypt, are in the process of closing similar deals. It is expected several hundred thousand hectares more will be leased out by the end of this year. The lease tenure is 99 years. At least two generations of Sudanese will have to live with the decisions made by their leader.

  • Malagasy land and foreign investments
    • Quest Bulgaria
    • 21 October 2008

    Nowadays, the concern of the Malagasy governement is focused on how to attract foreign private investments. The new Malagasy investment law, Act 2007-036 of January 14th, 2008, has brought a very key change concerning the possibility for foreigners to own their land in Madagascar

  • Buy Land and Cash in on Profits
    • Quest Bulgaria
    • 20 October 2008

    With shaky stock markets across the globe, more and more investors are looking to buy tracts of land with and without planning permission in emerging markets and in particular in Bulgaria, where agricultural land prices alone are twice as low as the rest of the Eastern bloc.

  • UAE examines farm future
    • The National
    • 19 October 2008

    Some experts believe that the emphasis should be on overseas agricultural investments as well as a boost in trade relationships, due to the unavoidable handicaps to domestic agriculture.

  • Rising wheat crisis | Pakistan eyeing corporate farming
    • The Post
    • 12 October 2008

    Talks are on with investors from Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia. 25,000 Punjab villages will be affected.

  • PE looks at Brazilian agriculture
    • PE Hub
    • 11 October 2008

    Private equity funds remain optimistic that Brazil’s farm sector offers investment opportunities despite the deteriorating world credit market, executives said on Thursday.

  • Private equity bullish on Brazil ag despite crisis
    • Reuters
    • 09 October 2008

    Private equity funds remain optimistic that Brazil's farm sector offers investment opportunities despite the deteriorating world credit market, executives said on Thursday.

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