One way to create an African breadbasket
- CS Monitor
- 07 February 2011
Foreign investment in a Zambian farming firm may be a business model for Africa's hunger and food security problems.
Foreign investment in a Zambian farming firm may be a business model for Africa's hunger and food security problems.
The Zambian Development Agency signed off the virgin land to a firm called Menafea Holding which will grow pineapples and produce juice
A Saudi Arabian investor plans to lease a 5,000 hectare farm and a fruit-processing plant in Zambia, Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane said.
Zambia does not regard leasing farmland to foreign investors as a form of 'colonialism' and is encouraging Gulf countries to invest in its agricultural sector, its finance minister said on Saturday.
Indian company signs an MoU with Zambia Development Agency to facilitate the acquisition of 100,000 hectares of land for agricultural development in Zambia.
Government’s policies of liberalizing land markets and focusing on foreign investment are having a detrimental impact on Zambia’s rural poor.
Land is too important to be left to the whims of international commercial interests to overrun the land rights of the ordinary people of Zambia.
International investors from Britain to South Africa have begun putting money into infrastructure development and transport, and about 200 exiled Zimbabwean farmers have taken leases from the Zambian government to develop farmland in the country.
45 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
African 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
Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) has signed an agreement with Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture Company of China for the development of an agriculture farm bloc.
Indian commercial farmers plan to invest in a new model farm in Zambia, according to the government.