Mozambique

The Obama model's first project in Mozambique will be to support Cargill, the giant grain trader and largest private company in the world, to take 40,000 hectares of farmland.

Villagers in Mozambique are caught between their government's need to promote agricultural development through foreign investment and to protect the rights of the citizens who depend on that land.

Seminar in Brazilia for the launching of the Agriculture Investment Fund for Nacala Corridor

With minimal consultation, governments and local authorities are signing away huge tracts of land for lease on the cheap. Now communities are raising their voices in opposition to these projects that bring little local development.

Il coinvolgimento italiano nel business del land grab

African nations like Zambia, Ethiopia and Mozambique invited Indian investors to invest in various sectors, especially in agriculture, saying this has the potential to provide food to both Africa and India.

Le sujet n'est pas à l'ordre du jour officiel du sommet de l'ONU sur le développement durable Rio+20 du 20 au 22 juin, mais il y sera porté par les ONG.

Part 2 of a report from the US-based National Public Radio on landgrabbing in Africa, highlighting the case of Mozambique

NPR takes a closer look at the reality behind the rhetoric, and went to Mozambique, a hot spot in the global rush for land.

Presented by FGV at JICA's ProSAVANA Seminar, "Fourth Opinion Sharing Meeting on Agriculture Development of Northern Mozambique: reporting from the triangular joint mission to promote agriculture investment in the Nacala Corridor", June 5, 2012.

Karuturi, which has 300,000 ha in Ethiopia, is now targeting the DRC, Tanzania, Mozambique, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

En el informe se asegura que, desde el año 2000, casi un 5% de las tierras agrícolas del África fueron compradas o arrendadas por distintos inversionistas.