Zambia

Researcher argues that Chinese investors have preferred different investment models according to the specific rules of land access, transfer and control of three land tenure systems in Zambia.

According to the United Nations, over 36 million people are struggling to meet their basic food needs, a number projected to rise to over 52 million during the June–August 2025 lean season, including almost three million in emergency conditions (IPC4) and 2,600 people in Mali at risk of facing catastrophic hunger (IPC5).

AgDevCo has officially exited its investment in Saise Farming Enterprises Limited, Zambia’s leading commercial seed potato producer.

L’Afrique est-elle à la veille d’un nouveau cycle d’accaparement des terres, non pas pour sécuriser les approvisionnements alimentaires de pays tiers, comme à la fin des années 2000, mais pour produire les crédits-carbone destinés à compenser les émissions des gros pays pollueurs ou celles des entreprises ayant pris pour engagement d’atteindre la neutralité carbone d’ici à 2050 ?

The Luapula Council of Chiefs has joined other stakeholders in rejecting the proposed US$72 billion Vietnamese rice investment project spearheaded by VietZam Development Corporation Limited that is said to involve 6 million hectares of land.

Les sociétés de crédit carbone expulsent des communautés à travers l’Afrique.

Globe-trotting billionaire Mo Dewji made a fortune in East Africa selling palm oil, rope, and soda. Now he says he's trying to acquire 100,000 ha in Rufiji and another part of Tanzania for sugarcane and cereal plantations.

The pact with China's Guangxi Fenglin Wood Industry Group and a company the Zambian government said was called Development Company Ltd. of China, will include 100,000 hectares of plantations of slash pine.

L'exploitation est basée dans le district de Mkushi, dans la province centrale, et comprend des terres aménagées pour la production du blé, du soja et du maïs, ainsi que d’autres cultures fruitières telles que l’avocat et la mangue.

The 2000 hectares of agricultural land, along with buildings and related assets, is located within the Mkushi Farm Block of Zambia’s Region II agricultural zone.

Au Kenya, l’accord du gouvernement kenyan avec la Zambie pour la production de maïs sur 20 000 hectares continue de susciter la polémique. Après la société civile, c’est au tour de Greenpeace Africa de monter au créneau pour critiquer vertement cette entente.

Communication Manager Hellen Dena said it was unsettling for the ministry to lease land in Zambia when Kenya has about 5.8 million hectares of fertile land.