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Business Report01 Sep 1045 new private equity funds are planning to invest US$2 billion in African agriculture in the next 3-5 years, according to participants at the Africainvestor Agribusiness Project Summit taking place in Durban
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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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Reuters05 Aug 10Indian commercial farmers plan to invest in a new model farm in Zambia, according to the government.
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Reuters16 Jul 10Standard Bank plans to finance more land deals involving South African farmers seeking expansion opportunities across the continent to grow export crops, the bank said on Friday.
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Reuters09 Jul 10A South African farmers group said on Friday it had received fresh offers from African states, including Sudan and Mozambique, to invest in agriculture to grow export crops and some of the deals will be concluded soon.
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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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World Bank04 Jun 10World Bank's MIGA provides political risk insurance for Chayton Capital's $50 million farmland investments in southern Africa.
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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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World Bank10 May 10MIGA, the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank, announced today that it will support up to $50 million of agribusiness investments in Zambia and Botswana
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UKZambians21 Apr 10Saudi Arabia is interested in investing in Zambia's agriculture sector in order to improve the food security of the two countries. Zambia says they have plenty of land for this.
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AGTER19 Jan 10Accaparement des terres - cas de la Zambie - par AGTER
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Mmegi05 Nov 09Atlas Farming, which had successful farming ventures in Zimbabwe from the late 1960s until president Robert Mugabe's much criticised land reforms around 2000, has partnered with Chayton Capital to invest in large-scale farming in Zambia.
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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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Bloomberg09 Oct 09South African farmers have been offered land for agriculture in Angola and Uganda and the government is also in talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Southern Sudan.
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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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BBC05 Aug 09For investors like Susan Payne, the chief executive of Emergent Asset Management, farmland in sub-Saharan Africa is a hot bet.
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Der Spiegel30 Jul 09Because 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.
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Reuters02 Jul 09The emergence of the farmland asset class is not without pitfalls with the provision of food always highly political and a tentative global economic recovery potentially threatened by the H1N1 flu pandemic, fund managers said.
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Les Afriques27 Jun 09Selon le ministre de l'Agriculture, Brian Chituwo, des entreprises américaines et émiraties sont intéressées par la création de grandes exploitations agricoles en Zambie, pour cultiver du sucre et des céréales.
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Reuters12 Jun 09Companies from the US and the UAE are interested in establishing large farms in Zambia to grow sugar and grains, the country's agriculture minister said