Zimbabwean peasant farmers accuse Billy Rautenbach of destroying their livelihoods.
- Mail & Guardian
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04 September 2015
“As plantações não são propriedade dos fracos na sociedade, mas das empresas ou pessoas físicas ricas com fortes contatos econômicos e, às vezes, políticos".
Zimbabwe's Parliament has ordered Arda board chairman Basil Nyabadza to clarify the status of the land at the centre of an ownership wrangle between Green Fuel and the Chisumbanje community.
- News Day
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26 February 2015
Investors and hedge funders paying next to nothing for vast tracts of land in some African countries is a worrying trend and puts into context the Zimbabwe land policy and reform.
Amatheon Agri, a Berlin based agribusiness and farming company, is set to embark on a countrywide expansion of grain production in Zimbabawe after a successful pilot maize farming project
- The Herald
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12 February 2015
The Zimbabwean company, Greenfuels, has acquired 30,000 hectares of land for a sugar cane plantation in Kawambwa’s Luena farm block.
- Zambia Daily Mail
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18 August 2014
Land has been grabbed at a significant scale in almost all SADC countries and the agribusiness model is destroying peasant-family agriculture, which produces most of the food for SADC countries.
- Via Campesina
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08 August 2014
Large scale commercial land deals at Nuanetsi Ranch, Chisumbanje and Chiadzwa are mired in corruption and end up impacting on livelihoods of communities.
- The Standard
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22 June 2014
"UAE relies on food imports and we are very concerned with food security so we are very willing to invest heavily in Zimbabwe's agriculture," Dr Andre Homberg of Tabarak Investment Bank said.
The Ghana-based fund already has investments in farms in Zimbabwe and Cameroon, a fertiliser plant in Madagascar, a beverage company in Zambia and a bakery in Nigeria.
Zimbabwe government officials are allegedly debating whether to expropriate Tongaat Hulett's farmlands.
- Mail & Guardian
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17 January 2014
Church leaders and activists from six SADC countries appealed to African parliaments to come up with laws that protect land owners, promote land rights and criminalise massive land grabbing.
- Zambia Post
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28 October 2013