A Norwegian company, ScanFuel Ltd., says its Ghanaian unit has contracted about 400,000 hectares of land, with up to 60 percent reserved for biofuel production, “not less” than 30 percent for food production and the remainder for biodiversity buffer zones.
A number of African countries are inviting South African farmers to come over to their countries and ply their trade, and Libya is included.
“We have a land fund in South America, we have in Ukraine. Now we are developing one in Africa. We need to acquire land for farming,” says Guy de Montule, Louis Dreyfus’ chief executive officer for Middle East and Africa
Las impresionantes ventas de tierras del sur a grandes empresas extranjeras muestran la cara más insultante del mercado y del modelo económico vigente, esas operaciones convierten en una ridícula caricatura los procesos de descolonización del siglo pasado. De qué les sirve la independencia política a los países africanos o asiáticos si sus tierras, su territorio, terminan compradas por una empresa europea.
“There’s no harm in allowing [Chinese] farmers to leave the country to become farm owners [in Africa],” the head of China’s Export-Import Bank, Li Ruogu, says.
In other African countries, including Ghana, South Africa and Togo, the China State Farm and Agribusiness Corporation (CSFAC) has founded 11 agricultural production, processing and sales projects, and runs a total of 16,000 hectares of farmlands
