• Office du Niger: towards the resumption of works at the Malibya project site
    • Bamada
    • 29 September 2018

    A delegation from "Malibya Agriculture" was received by Mali's Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Nango Dembélé on 17 September 2018 to discuss a possible revival of Libyan investment in the Office du Niger zone.

  • ECOWAS to provide US$25m to restart ADA/LAP Rice Project
    • Hot Pepper
    • 23 November 2015

    The Economic Community for West African States has agreed to provide the Foundation for African Development Aid US$25 million to revamp a rice project originally financed by the Libyan African Investment Portfolio.

  • Searching for Gaddafi’s land deal in Mali
    • Reuters
    • 15 May 2015

    Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi backed a deal in 2008 to lease 100,000 hectares of Mali’s best farmland. Terms of the agreement, and the contact itself, weren’t released publicly. Many wondered what the deal contained.

  • Mali's land deal with the Devil: Letter from Markala
    • Foreign Affairs
    • 14 May 2015

    Malian farmer Balima Coulibaly and his fellow villagers could do nothing but watch as Libyan investors, under a deal known as Malibya, took the fertile land that they had farmed for generations.

  • Land grab by MNCs in Africa cause for concern: Experts
    • The Hindu
    • 19 December 2012

    The controversy regarding India’s permission to allow foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail and growing “land grab” in Africa by multinational corporations are being closely watched globally by agriculture experts, researchers and donors.

  • West Africa: The downside of foreign land acquisitions
    • IRIN
    • 19 January 2012

    Population growth and rising consumption by a minority of people around the world are fuelling global land acquisitions and Africa is a “prime target”, says the International Land Coalition.

  • Libya NTC says to review investments worldwide
    • Reuters
    • 08 January 2012

    Chairman of National Transitional Council says Libya will make major direct agricultural investments in Sudan and other countries close to Libya.

  • Liberia: Gaddafi's U.S.30 million Lofa project collapses
    • New democrat
    • 04 May 2011

    The project funded by Col. Muammar Kadhafi with some US$30m to engage in mechanized production of rice has collapsed, and President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is now seeking a new investor to take over the project.

  • South Africa's white farmers are moving further north
    • Guardian
    • 01 May 2011

    Other countries believe their agricultural expertise can kickstart an agrarian revolution across the African continent

  • Foreign investors run fingers through Ukraine's black earth
    • bne
    • 15 April 2011

    Chinese and other eastern investors are looking to buy agriculture land and agribusiness across the globe, and Ukraine is increasingly on their radar.

  • The great African land rush
    • The Atlantic
    • 14 April 2011

    "Only 12% of [the land investors have acquired in Africa in the last few years] is actually being farmed," Oxfam Senegal's Head of Economic Justice Lamine Ndiaye says. "The other 88% is just sitting there. It's just for speculation. You buy it, and three years later, you sell it at a higher price."

  • Mozambique: Matutuine project could cut rice imports by 20 per cent
    • AIM
    • 13 April 2011

    Project backed by the Libyan sovereign wealth fund wants to extend its land under cultivation to 5,000 ha so that it can undertake industrial scale production.

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