The two private equity funds, backed by European development banks, sell Zambia’s largest table-egg producer and large-scale farm operator to the Belgian family-owned Vanden Avenne Group.
Phatisa, together with a consortium of development finance institutions, has acquired a significant minority stake in South African-based fruit producer and exporter, Lona Group.
CDC Group, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada and BIO invest in Phatisa's second African agribusiness fund, even as Phatisa's first DFI-supported fund, the African Agriculture Fund, remains embroiled in land conflicts.
CDC, the UK’s development finance institution, has appointed an independent team to investigate the death of Mr Joël Imbangola Lunea, that took place on 21 July 2019 in Bempumba, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
A member of the Congolese organisation RIAO-RDC was brutally killed by a security guard of the Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc near the company’s Boteka plantations.
Un membre de l'organisation congolaise RIAO-RDC a été brutalement tué par un agent de sécurité de la société canadienne Feronia Inc, près des plantations à Boteka
Finnfund and the DFI-backed African Agricultural Fund assume majority control of the Sierre Leone oil palm plantations and concessions of Goldtree Holdings and Natural Habitats.
Phatisa will continue its focus on the African food value chain – considering investments in mechanisation, inputs, poultry and meat production, food processing and manufacturing across sub-Saharan Africa.
Phatisa annonce la première levée de son troisième fonds, le Phatisa Food Fund 2, qui succède à l’African Agriculture Fund.
Ce fond table sur des investissements de 20 millions $ en Afrique de l’Ouest (Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana et Nigeria), en Afrique de l’Est (Tanzanie, Kenya et Ouganda) et en Afrique australe (Malawi, Zambie, Mozambique et Zimbabwe).
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group today approved US$10 million equity investment in Phatisa Food Fund2 (PFF2) to boost agriculture and nutrition across Africa
