Jarch Capital Archive

UPI29 Apr 10
Food and water drive Africa land grab

As African leaders, many out to line their own pockets, sign away their people's land to foreigners, the continent's people face not having enough food to eat.
AGTER19 Jan 10
Appropriation et concentration de droits fonciers à grande échelle-Le cas du Soudan

Accaparement des terres - cas du Soudan - par AGTER
Der Spiegel30 Jul 09
Foreign investors snap up African farmland

Because of the political sensitivity of the modern-day land grab, it is often only the country's head of state who knows the details. Der Spiegel investigates.
Der Spiegel27 Jul 09
Die große Jagd nach Land

Regierungen und Investmentfonds erwerben in Afrika und Asien Ackerland, um Nahrungsmittel anzubauen – ein lohnendes Geschäft, weil die Preise rasch steigen. Das Milliarden-Monopoly führt zu einem modernen Kolonialismus, dem sich viele arme Länder notgedrungen unterwerfen.
Countercurrents17 Jun 09
The food crisis continues – in the form of a global scramble for lucrative farmlands

It's a tsunami of land deals and, as all of the experts who have studied the phenomenon have agreed, no nation is truly prepared for its implications.
Fortune/CNN10 Jun 09
Betting the farm

As world population expands, the demand for arable land should soar. At least that's what George Soros, Lord Rothschild, and other investors believe.
The Hidden Paw29 Apr 09
Jarch doubles its Sudanese empire

Although it slipped past the world’s media, in mid-April it emerged that Jarch Capital had doubled its landholdings in Southern Sudan. That takes the acreage owned by Phillippe Heilberg and chums to a massive 800,000 hectares, or 3,000 square miles, which the firm claims will become a gigantic agricultural plantation.
Inter Press Service20 Apr 09
The Second Scramble For Africa Starts

Sub-Saharan African countries have of late become the target of a new form of investment that is strongly reminiscent of colonialism: investors from both industrialised and emerging economies buy or lease large tracts of farm land across the continent, either to guarantee their own food provisions or simply as yet another business.
Sudan Tribune16 Apr 09
New York investment firm mulling more land leases in S. Sudan

Jarch Management Group, Ltd., a US investment firm, disclosed that it is considering additional opportunities to lease large tracts of farmland in Southern Sudan.
Reuters20 Mar 09
FACTBOX: Foreign forays into African farming

A move by Madagascar's army-backed leader to nix a huge South Korean farming deal has exposed the risks of such ventures in Africa.
La Presse (Canada)30 Jan 09
Un banquier new-yorkais mise sur l’éclatement du Soudan

Un financier new-yorkais vient d'acquérir 400 000 hectares de terres au Soudan. En plus de constituer l'une des plus importantes transactions de ce type depuis la vente de l'Alaska au XIXe siècle, cette transaction fait partie d'une stratégie troublante: la firme Jarch Capital parie que le Soudan, et d'autres pays africains, sont sur le point de se morceler en plusieurs États.
BBC28 Jan 09
Sudan beckons for new investors

Of all the places on this planet where you might think of investing, Sudan would surely not normally be at the top of anyone’s list. But that is not the view of Philippe Heilberg of Jarch Capital in New York, who told the BBC that his company was leasing 400,000 hectares in the relatively more stable south part of the country.
Reuters27 Jan 09
South Sudan looking into US land deal

South Sudan's administration is looking into a 4,000 sq km land investment by a US businessman because of questions over who owns the plot, a senior official said on Tuesday.
South African Civil Society Information Service20 Jan 09
The New Land Grab

Even the World Bank is continuing its role as a neo-colonial consensus agent by actively pursuing and financing access to 'under-utilised land' around the world through its International Finance Corporation.
Reuters13 Jan 09
Selling Africa by the pound

Land ownership could prove contentious. In the distant past, it was often held by communities as a whole or vested in traditional authorities. State officials now often have the greatest say. That opens the potential for official abuse of yet another valuable resource.
Financial Times09 Jan 09
US investor buys Sudanese warlord’s land

A US businessman backed by former CIA and state department officials says he has secured a vast tract of fertile land in south Sudan from the family of a notorious warlord.
The Financial Times09 Jan 09
Quest to create a new Sudan bread basket

Unity state, where Philippe Heilberg, a US businessman, says he has secured a huge tract of arable land, is inaccessible even by south Sudan’s standards. Apart from AK-47 assault rifles, it is deprived of most of the trappings of the modern world.
Sudan Tribune03 Jan 09
U.S. firm to invest in agriculture in South Sudan

A privately held US investment firm entered into an agricultural investment with a company controlled by the son of a South Sudanese general.