South Africa

China will grow our food
- City Press
- 23 November 2013
BEK-Pengxin Agritech aims to have more than one million hectares of land producing food and high-end by-products from agricultural estates in each of South Africa’s provinces.
Church in SADC criticises govts for allowing land grabbing
- Zambia Post
- 28 October 2013
Church leaders and activists from six SADC countries appealed to African parliaments to come up with laws that protect land owners, promote land rights and criminalise massive land grabbing.
Agri-Vie invests in Cape Olive Holdings
- Business Day
- 14 October 2013
Agri-Vie, a private equity fund focused on food and agribusiness investments in sub-Saharan Africa, announces it has acquired a 63% stake in South Africa's largest table olive supplier.
África, granero del mundo
- El País
- 07 October 2013
Siete de los 15 países en los que más está creciendo la producción agrícola son africanos. Los expertos ven un gran potencial, pero también importantes riesgos
Moratorium on foreign ownership of agricultural land: Xenophobia, myopia or what?
- Georgia Today
- 12 September 2013
Large scale privatization of state-owned agricultural lands in Georgia has the potential to trigger violence and social unrest of far graver consequences for investment – foreign and domestic – into the national economy than the notorious moratorium.
SA farmland 'outperforms stocks, bonds'
- Financial Mail
- 30 August 2013
The returns on investments in South African farmland consistently outstrip those of local and international equities, bonds and real estate, says Futuregrowth Asset Management, the venture capital arm of Old Mutual.
L’accaparement des terre et de la souveraineté par les Brics
- Pambazuka
- 02 August 2013
L'accaparement des terres comme une forme de néo-colonialisme n'est pas une question de noms et d’origines, mais simplement une question liée à l'expansion mondiale du système capitaliste.
BRICS grab African land and sovereignty
- Pambazuka
- 28 Mar 2013
BRICS states, except Russia, are enhancing and facilitating land grabs abroad in a way that is inconsistent with their proclamations of sustainable development, cooperation solidarity, and respect of national sovereignty.
Land tenure plan 'not anti-investment'
- SA News
- 25 February 2013
The proposal to limit foreign farmland ownership in South Africa to a leasehold of a minimum of 30 years is not a sign of antagonism to foreign investment, says Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti.
South African farm worker strikes reminiscent of the mine workers dispute
- Land Commodities
- 12 November 2012
Could a recent farm workers dispute in, De Doorns, a wine region in the Western Cape in South Africa, become the agriculture equivalent of the Lonmin's platinum mine dispute?
Des fermiers étrangers sapent la sécurité alimentaire
- IPS
- 07 November 2012
Le développement agricole accru en Zambie compromettra en réalité la sécurité alimentaire du pays, puisque des fermiers continuent d’être chassés de leurs terres coutumières pour ouvrir la voie à l’agro-industrie locale et étrangère à grande échelle.
Foreign farmers undermine food security in Zambia
- IPS
- 01 November 2012
Increased agricultural development in Zambia will actually compromise the country’s food security as peasant farmers continue to be driven off their customary land to pave the way for large-scale local and foreign agribusiness.