South African group Illovo Sugar has pulled out of a 2.6 billion rand sugar project in Mali, largely due to political risk and also funding difficulties, and will focus on growth opportunities elsewhere in Africa.
Afrifresh Group, a South African agriculture group, is set to acquire a controlling stake in Ariston Holdings, as Emvest pulls out.
- Business Digest
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23 February 2012
African officials have called for greater equity and fairness in trade with the GCC countries that use agricultural land in Africa to feed their populations while famines continue to ravage the continent.
- Gulf News
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20 February 2012
Numero 10/11 de 'Transcontinentales' sur les logiques transnationales d'appropriation foncière.
- Transcontinentales
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27 December 2011
Le Mozambique a approuvé deux projets agricoles géants représentant au total 660 millions de dollars (505 millions d'euros) d'investissement, et s'étendant sur 90.000 hectares, a annoncé mercredi le porte-parole du gouvernement Henrique Banze.
"We’re dealing with a different enemy now: not with an enemy that emerges from the center to the periphery, as they used to say, but with an enemy that comes at us from all sides."
Foreign countries which buy African farmland in order to gain food security are guilty of a "new form of colonisation," says South Africa's Minister of Agriculture Tina Joemat-Pettersson.
Les pays étrangers qui achètent des terres agricoles en Afrique pour assurer leur approvisionnement en nourriture sont coupables d'une nouvelle forme de colonisation, a affirmé la ministre sud-africaine de l'Agriculture Tina Joemat-Pettersson.
The South African government appears to have abandoned the notion that foreigners should not own land in SA by proposing that foreigners enjoy freehold title but with conditions applied.
- Business Day
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26 August 2011
South Africa may put restrictions on the sale of land to foreigners as it aims to transfer ownership to blacks as part of a drive to correct racial imbalances in land distribution, a draft policy showed on Thursday.
The US Overseas Private Investment Corporation pours $150 million into fund targeting farmland acquisitions in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia
"In a world where war is provoked by food scarcity, farmers are the peacekeepers. No surprise, then, so many regimes want more of them," writes a journalist visiting the South African farmers taking up farming in Georgia.
- Mail & Guardian
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24 June 2011