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Farmers harvesting wheat in Sudan.

Women clearing grass at the Dominion farm in Kenya's Nyanza province. The 17,000-hectare farm has been leased out to a US company to grow rice. Photo: HEZRON NJOROGE 

Rogers will be testing the domestic investor market first before opening the opportunity to offshore groups

Miroslav Naidenov

DON'T SELL THE FARM: The main reasons for not selling to foreign companies were to keep control of both resources and export returns.

COFCO a acheté en juillet une participation de 99% dans la société sucrière australienne Tully Sugar et en 2008 une participation de 4,95% dans Smithfield Foods, le premier producteur américain de viande de porc.

Forum des Peuples, 2011 (Niono, Mali)

Fonds souverain libyen sur la terre malienne (photo: Gautier Demouveaux/Viewsco)

A China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) booth at the 11th China International Exhibition for Grain and Oil Products, Equipment and Technology. COFCO will spend more than $10 billion on overseas mergers and acquisitions in the next five years. Zhang Peijian / For China Daily

National Bank of Bahrain chief executive Abdul Razak A Hassan Al Qassim.

So many potential investors are scouting farmland purchases in the Delta that Tennessee farm manager George Baird jokes he has become a tour guide. (DTN photo by Marcia Zarley Taylor)

Forum de Kolongo, novembre 2010

TPS Food has 25,000 ha in oil palm concessions.