"Over the past four years we have, on Schaffer's behalf, frequently raised concerns about various impediments to the sugar project with many senior Malian officials," reports the US mission in Bamako

“We have a land fund in South America, we have in Ukraine. Now we are developing one in Africa. We need to acquire land for farming,” says Guy de Montule, Louis Dreyfus’ chief executive officer for Middle East and Africa

Agriculture opportunities are accessed through land purchase (for production of foodstuffs or, more recently, biofuels), through equity investments in companies associated with this theme or – as is the case for £143m Ceres Agriculture fund – through pure derivative strategies.

A flock of 360 sheep imported from the UAE landed at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat Airport Saturday, Ninh Thuan Province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said.

La Société Djiboutienne de Sécurité Alimentaire a pour mission d'oeuvrer pour le compte de l'Etat à la réalisation des objectifs de la Sécurité Alimentaire de la République de Djibouti. Les projets peuvent se situer au niveau du territoire national comme à l'extérieur du Pays dans une perspective d'intégration régionale.

En fait, les responsables de Daewoo n’annoncent pas qu’ils envisagent d’annuler leur projet. Il n’est question que de retard pour la culture de maïs. De plus, ce n’est qu’une éventualité et non une information. La culture d’huile de palme sur 300 000 ha n’est pas concernée.

Paper for the International Fund for Agricultural Development's Governing Council meeting

Six Taiwanese and five local companies have committed more than RM4bil in investments in the Tanjung Manis Halal Hub in Mukah Division in central Sarawak.

Big purchases of African land by richer countries in a drive for food security could fuel unrest if the rights of local farmers are not taken into consideration, a land rights campaigner warned on Wednesday.

A group of five Saudi Arabia business men have planned to invest 1 billion Saudi riyals (some $ 266.6 million) in agricultural projects in Sudan and Ethiopia within the coming few years, Pan Arab daily Asharq Al Awsat reports.

Los gobiernos y corporaciones ricos han desatado la alarma para los pobres a medida que van comprando los derechos a millones de hectáreas de tierra cultivable en los países en desarrollo en un esfuerzo por garantizar su suministro de alimentos a largo plazo.

"We can't eat semiconductors or auto parts." When Richard Shin of Daewoo Logistics told me this during an interview last week, it hit me hard. Shin is the manager of the Korean firm's $6 billion project to carve a 1.3 million hectare farm out of Madagascar, a formal French colony.

A number of videos interviews broadcast by Al-Arabiya are available at Zawya.com, in Arabic

Saudi Arabia's Hail Agricultural Development Co (Hadco) said on Monday it would look at investing in Turkey and Kazakhstan after moving into Sudan under a government plan to ensure steady food imports.

With land prices falling, now is a good time for the UAE to acquire farmland in other countries, in order to strengthen food security, a senior official says.