Namibia Archive

• Reuters24 Aug 10

  African agricultural finance under the spotlight

  African governments need to raise their level of accountability and ensure that they improve and protect their own food security through quid pro quo side-agreements negotiated when they lease or sell their arable land to foreign interests, says Keith Mullin of Thompson Reuters
• The Namibian13 Jul 10

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  Namibia has not been spared in the proliferating acquisition of agricultural land in developing countries by multi-national agricultural corporations, popularly referred to as ‘land grabbing’.
• Financial Express12 Jul 10

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  Jagjit Singh Hara, a farmer in Jalandhar, has been getting offers from Congo, Namibia and Nigeria to take land on lease and start cultivation.
• World Bank04 Jun 10

  Unlocking Sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural potential

  World Bank's MIGA provides political risk insurance for Chayton Capital's $50 million farmland investments in southern Africa.
• New Era28 May 10

  Abu Dhabi group enters grape, date hunt

  Government of Namibia has leased land to Namibia Development Corporation and the Abu Dhabi-based Al Dhahra Agricultural Company to produce farm grapes and dates on a large commercial scale
• IPS18 May 10

  Namibia: Will farm project mean the river runs dry?

  "Local businessmen make deals with foreign investors and convince tribal authorities in the area to give them land, but the water from the river is not just for people to take," says Water Affairs Under Secretary A. Nehemia who had not been informed about the farm.
• IPS15 May 10

  San fight land grab in Namibian park

  Demeter International got a 25-year lease for 10,000 ha of Bwabwata National Park, which it will start ploughing in October. Hundreds of families will lose access to the forest.
• The Namibian22 Jan 10

  Namibia: Huge tracts of land in park for agri project

  A foreign company intends to clear 10 000 hectares of land in the Bwabwata National Park in northern Namibia in order to set up a large-scale irrigation scheme for crop farming
• Times of India26 Sep 09

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  Ramakrishna Karuturi does not feature on any international power list. Perhaps he should.
• Reuters15 Jun 09

  Interview: India Yes Bank sees 1st Africa farm project start 2011

  Yes Bank expects a $150 million Tanzanian rice and wheat project to reach full production by 2011, the first of several large African farms it is funding. "We are looking at a more inclusive model wherein the local farmers can be organised into a producers company, and they would be the suppliers to the processing facility. It's predominantly not to acquire huge tracts of land."