Namibia Archive

• 022 January 2010

  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
• 026 September 2009

  The new landlords

  Ramakrishna Karuturi does not feature on any international power list. Perhaps he should.
• 015 June 2009

  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."