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Reuters24 Aug 10African 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
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IANS20 Aug 10As India looks at avenues beyond its shores to deal with food security, Uganda, which has nearly half the arable land in east Africa, has laid the red carpet for inward investment from India Inc.
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Institutional Investor04 Jun 10 SilverStreet is scouting for commercial farms in five countries — Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
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Institutional Investor28 May 10Vaughan-Smith and his team of seven professionals are scouting for commercial farms in five countries — Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia — where conditions are deemed to be the most favorable.
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dpa24 May 10El empresario danés casi no puede creer en su suerte en el norte de Uganda. "En realidad quería comprar tierra en el sur, cerca de Kampala -revela- pero el gobierno me ofreció tierras en el norte por un tercio del precio."
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Reuters15 Feb 10Three options both governments were looking at are whether Egyptian investors would own and cultivate farmland, whether land would be owned in partnership with Egypt and Uganda, or whether land would be owned as a concession right.
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MediaGlobal04 Feb 10While the proposed deal brings up ethical questions of exploitation, another concern is how it will impact earth changes and food security in the future.
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Daily News Egypt12 Jan 10Uganda has agreed to allow Egypt to cultivate wheat on Ugandan soil.
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Reuters11 Jan 10Egypt, the world's top wheat importer, said on Monday it will send a committee to inspect suitable farmland in Uganda to grow wheat.
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Jeune Afrique01 Dec 09L’idée n’est pas nouvelle, mais elle fait son chemin depuis la tenue, les 14 et 15 novembre à Addis-Abeba, du premier forum économique entre l’Arabie saoudite et les pays d’Afrique de l’Est. Une manifestation qui a permis à Riyad de plaider sa cause et de renouveler son intérêt pour les terres agricoles de cette partie du continent.
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Reuters25 Oct 09Stephen Murphy, managing director of institutional fundraising, said the firm had eyed agriculture and infrastructure investments in Uganda.
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Reuters16 Oct 09Farmland deals in Africa inked by private Egyptian firms, commonly called "land grabs," could help the import-dependent nation get access to grain when markets spike, Egypt's agriculture minister Amin Abaza said. "This is going to be a private initiative."
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The Observer11 Oct 09Hebei Company plans to grow its operations -- wheat, maize, rice, vegetable and livestock production for the local, Chinese and European markets -- to about 100,000 acres [40,500 ha] of land in 8-10 years.
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Reuters10 Oct 09South Africa said on Friday it had been offered 48 square miles of land in Angola and Uganda and also a land lease agreement in Zambia.
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Reuters29 Sep 09Citadel, which also announced on Tuesday that it was investing in 500,000 feddans (210,000 hectares) of farmland in Sudan, is also looking to potential investments elsewhere in Africa: Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia.
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Times of India26 Sep 09Ramakrishna Karuturi does not feature on any international power list. Perhaps he should.
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The Monitor21 Aug 09President Museveni on February 23 wrote to Finance Minister Syda Bbumba advising against allowing foreigners to buy large chunks of land in Uganda in order to grow food.
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Reuters14 Aug 09A group of Saudi-based investors announced earlier this monthy a seven-year plan to develop and plant 700,000 hectares to produce 7 million tonnes of rice in countries like Uganda.
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Business Today Egypt10 Aug 09The wheat farms in Sudan & Uganda are not Egypt’s first foray into overseas farming — the government operates a corn farm in Zambia, a rice farm in Niger, a vegetable farm in Tanzania and plans 14 more farms across Africa — but they are significant because they are among the first efforts to address wheat scarcity after the instability of 2008.
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Reuters03 Aug 09Le programme, du nom « 7X7 », prévoit de développer 700 000 ha de terres agricoles pour produire en 7 ans 7 millions de tonnes de riz au Mali, au Sénégal et peut-être au Soudan et en Ouganda.