One way to create an African breadbasket
    Foreign investment in a Zambian farming firm may be a business model for Africa's hunger and food security problems.
    • CS Monitor
    • 07 February 2011
    Zambia gives 5,000 hectares land to Saudi businessmen
    The Zambian Development Agency signed off the virgin land to a firm called Menafea Holding which will grow pineapples and produce juice
    • Zambian Watchdog
    • 28 January 2011
    Saudi businessman plans to invest in Zambian fruit farm, plant
    A Saudi Arabian investor plans to lease a 5,000 hectare farm and a fruit-processing plant in Zambia, Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane said.
    • Bloomberg
    • 04 December 2010
    Zambia eyes Gulf investment in farm sector
    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.
    • Reuters
    • 04 December 2010
    Neha International to acquire land in Zambia
    Indian company signs an MoU with Zambia Development Agency to facilitate the acquisition of 100,000 hectares of land for agricultural development in Zambia.
    • Equity Bulls
    • 01 December 2010
    Land legislation in Zambia bypasses the poor yet again
    Government’s policies of liberalizing land markets and focusing on foreign investment are having a detrimental impact on Zambia’s rural poor.
    • Stiffkitten's Blog
    • 02 November 2010
    Civil society communiqué on large scale land acquisitions in Zambia
    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.
    • ZLA
    • 21 October 2010
    Is Zambia Africa's next breadbasket?
    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.
    • Mail & Guardian
    • 01 October 2010
    African farms lure overseas investment
    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
    • Business Report
    • 01 September 2010
    African agricultural finance under the spotlight
    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
    • Reuters
    • 24 August 2010
    ZDA, Chinese firm seal agro deal
    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.
    • Times of Zambia
    • 21 August 2010
    Farmers plan to invest in Zambia - govt
    Indian commercial farmers plan to invest in a new model farm in Zambia, according to the government.
    • Reuters
    • 05 August 2010
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