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Water Scarcity, Food Security Concerns Prompt Global Land Grab

November 17, 2009

Area nearly the size of France purchased, leased for food production around the world. Africa, South America, parts of Europe targeted by cash-rich, food-poor nations

Qatar Food Company Signs $1 billion Deal to Use Sudan Farmland

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November 2, 2009

Qatar furthers the trend of Gulf Arab Countries off-shoring their agricultural production to secure food supplies for its citizens and other populations in the Middle East and Northern Africa. Qatar’s Hassad Foods signed a deal last week, worth potentially $1 billion, to develop 20,000 acres of land in northern Sudan, Reuters reports. Cultivation could expand to 250,000 acres.

Jordan Plans to Give Dying Dead Sea New Life

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October 16, 2009

Jordan's government is making its own plans to rejuvenate the shrinking Dead Sea with salt water from the Red Sea

The Forgotten South Caucasus: Where Oil and Water Mix

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July 3, 2009

A “New Great Game” of Geopolitical Control Surfaces in Russia’s Old Backyard

Drinking From The Sea

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June 29, 2009

Pressed by growing urban populations, drier and warmer climates and the need to fortify supplies stretched by the increasing worldwide thirst, metropolitan and national governments on five continents are building record numbers of industrial plants to use a nearly alchemic technology to produce drinking water from the sea.