Ghana Archive

  • Ghana: Thailand to support local rice production019 January 2010

    Ghana: Thailand to support local rice production

    Vichai Sriprasent, President of Riceland International, said that Ghana had vast tracts of land and water sources that could be exploited for rice production.
  • Dar won’t host major conference029 September 2009

    Dar won’t host major conference

    An Afro-Arab agriculture conference on farm investment, which was to take place in Zanzibar, has been cancelled due to the Tanzanian governmnt's 11th hour refusal to host it.
  • Land grabs – Another scramble for Africa217 September 2009

    Land grabs – Another scramble for Africa

    Civil society, including African farmers unions, need to educate local people that such land deals are not in their interests, however couched in 'win-win' terminology they appear to be.
  • Saudi private $533 mln agri-business firm eyes 2010 start09 September 2009

    Saudi private $533 mln agri-business firm eyes 2010 start

    A group of private Saudi investors said they plan to start a company with $533.3 million capital that will invest in farm projects mainly abroad. First projects may be with Ghana, Turkey and Kazakhstan.
  • Gulf investors more covert on land deals030 August 2009

    Gulf investors more covert on land deals

    Land buying firms no longer disclose their identities to avoid tarnishing their image
  • Global standards for “land grabs”09 July 2009

    Global standards for “land grabs”

    IFAD is supporting a pilot initiative to promote properly structured ("win-win") agricultural land deals in Ghana.
  • The ‘change we need’? Obama in Ghana09 July 2009

    The ‘change we need’? Obama in Ghana

    A focus on agricultural productivity should not become a cover for foreign private companies to grab land or impose expensive, input-intensive methods in the name of modernisation.
  • The worldwide grab of farmland and water resources027 June 2009

    The worldwide grab of farmland and water resources

    Together with GMO, the land grab wave that is spreading across Africa and other countries in the "developing world" should be brought to the attention of all interested Ghanaians. It is important for Ghanaians to avoid falling for it.
  • La pugna por la tierra amenaza a los africanos025 May 2009

    La pugna por la tierra amenaza a los africanos

    Las adquisiciones de tierra en África, Asia y Latinoamérica, tal y como se hacen en la actualidad, suponen condenar a los más pobres a ser desalojados de sus fincas o a perder acceso a la tierra, al agua y a otros recursos, según el primer estudio sobre la nueva tendencia de grandes corporaciones y gobiernos de invertir en tierras en países pobres, encargado por las agencias de las Naciones Unidas de la Agricultura y Alimentación y del Desarrollo (FAO y UNDP).
  • Any lessons for Ghana in India’s jatropha failure?023 May 2009

    Any lessons for Ghana in India’s jatropha failure?

    A Norwegian company, ScanFuel Ltd., says its Ghanaian unit has contracted about 400,000 hectares of land, with up to 60 percent reserved for biofuel production, “not less” than 30 percent for food production and the remainder for biodiversity buffer zones.
  • South African farmers in high demand across Africa09 May 2009

    South African farmers in high demand across Africa

    A number of African countries are inviting South African farmers to come over to their countries and ply their trade, and Libya is included.
  • Commodity giants on our shores023 February 2009

    Commodity giants on our shores

    “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
  • Se venden países013 December 2008

    Se venden países

    Las impresionantes ventas de tierras del sur a grandes empresas extranjeras muestran la cara más insultante del mercado y del modelo económico vigente, esas operaciones convierten en una ridícula caricatura los procesos de descolonización del siglo pasado. De qué les sirve la independencia política a los países africanos o asiáticos si sus tierras, su territorio, terminan compradas por una empresa europea.
  • China’s long march to Africa129 November 2007

    China’s long march to Africa

    “There’s no harm in allowing [Chinese] farmers to leave the country to become farm owners [in Africa],” the head of China’s Export-Import Bank, Li Ruogu, says.