Quifel

Farmland - the new "blood diamonds" in Sierra Leone?
- Truthout
- 23 May 2013
The seeds of the next conflict are not diamonds but something far more valuable to local people - farmland.
Mozambican farmers fear foreign land grabs
- IPS
- 22 February 2013
“In the very short term land will became scarcest for Mozambicans because the government is attracting foreign investors arguing that we have huge unused land“, a spokesperson for UNAC told IPS. “What happens, in fact, when investors come, their appetite is centered on land already being used by locals.”
Soya boom in Gúruè has produced few bigger farmers – so far
- 11 January 2013
Thousands of subsistence farmers in Gúruè district are earning small amounts of money from soya. However, there are a few larger farmers. And land conflicts are increasing.
African land fertile ground for crops and investors
- NPR
- 15 June 2012
Part 2 of a report from the US-based National Public Radio on landgrabbing in Africa, highlighting the case of Mozambique
Mozambique farmland is prize in land grab fever
- NPR
- 14 June 2012
NPR takes a closer look at the reality behind the rhetoric, and went to Mozambique, a hot spot in the global rush for land.
Mozambique: World Bank to discuss land policy in the country
- AIM
- 19 April 2012
A policy paper will next week be presented to the annual World Bank conference on land and poverty in Washington DC in the United States, which focuses on the confrontation between peasant producers and investors in the Mozambican province of Zambezia.
Case studies on private investment in farmland and agricultural infrastructure
- High Quest Partners
- 31 January 2012
The six case studies compiled in this report illustrate the wide range of approaches and focus that private funds are adopting (legal structure, geography, agricultural production and operating strategies) to invest in farmland in different parts of the world.
Structural change in commodity markets: private financial sector investment in agriculture
- OECD
- 17 October 2011
Report by HighQuest Partners for the OECD, October 2011, features 6 case studies of land grabbers: Agrica, CalyxAgro, Cazanae, Jantzen, NFD Agro and Quifel
Agriculture : l'achat de terres en Afrique, un business sous influences
- Jeune Afrique
- 07 October 2011
Milliardaires américains ou saoudiens, aristocrates portugais et britanniques, ex-ambassadeurs occidentaux… Derrière certains contrats signés en Afrique se cachent des personnalités du monde des affaires et, parfois, de la politique. Enquête sur ces nouveaux spéculateurs.
Africa farmland has potential of Brazil: Quifel
- Reuters
- 22 February 2011
African farmland investment has the potential to match the exponential growth of Brazil's agricultural industry, the head of business development at privately owned agricultural operator Quifel said.
Land moves up the political agenda
- CIP & AWEPA
- 22 February 2011
In Mozambique, there has been an unofficial halt to new large land grants.
Koya Chiefdom signs 50 yr agric. land lease with Quifel
- Awoko Newspaper
- 16 September 2009
Land owners at Koya Chiefdom together with chiefdom elders and officials of Quifel have signed a 50 years land lease agreement for agricultural purposes.