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Tanzania: Indian business leaders now eye Dar Es Salaam agricultural sector
- Tanzania Daily News
- 22 August 2011
Nirmal Seeds wants not more than 30,000 hectares of land in Tanzania to invest in seeds production to feed the local market.
Success at halting largest foreign land deal in South Sudan
- Oakland Institute
- 22 August 2011
The combined force of the US based Oakland Institute's research and advocacy on African land deals and local, democratic activism in South Sudan has effectively stalled plans for the largest land deal in the area.
Agri-business still an unexploited sector
- Daily Monitor
- 22 August 2011
Last week, Uganda received a 35 man business delegation from India interested in the country’s agribusiness potential and boosting its exploits. Mr Ramakrishna Karuturi, the leader of the delegation, said the team intends to invest up to $2 billion in agribusiness pending the issue of investment licences.
Moçambique: Governo nega ter vendido seis milhões de hectares de terra a brasileiros
- Angola Press
- 22 August 2011
A organização moçambicana Justiça Ambiental considerou "preocupante e perigoso" que o governo atribua "de uma só vez" 60 mil quilómetros quadrados de terra aos agricultores brasileiros, alertando para o perigo de violação dos direitos da população camponesa.
Global land grab
- In These Times
- 22 August 2011
Fear of unrest and hunger for profit are sparking massive acquisitions of farmland.
US firm acquires 30,000 hectares in Taraba
- The Nation
- 22 August 2011
A US firm, Dominion Farms, has acquired 30,000 hectares of swampy land in Gassol Local Government of Taraba State in Nigeria for commercial rice farming.
Farm Lands of Guinea, Inc. finalise un placement privé d’un million de dollars US avec un investisseur stratégique
- PR Newswire
- 22 August 2011
Farm Lands of Guinea, Inc. qui contrôle plus de 100 000 hectares de terres agricoles ouest-africaines sous-utilisées, a finalisé un placement stratégique d’un million de dollars US de AIM Investments PLC grâce à un placement privé
Farm Lands of Guinea, Inc. closes $1,000,000 private placement with strategic investor
- PR Newswire
- 22 August 2011
"AIMI's investment in Farm Lands of Guinea Inc. gives the company and its shareholders exposure to the exciting growth prospects presented by this large-scale agricultural opportunity in West Africa," said Mark Pajak, Acting Chairman of AIM Investments.
Investasi pertanian masih stagnan
- Bisnis Indonesia
- 22 August 2011
Pengusaha China jajaki tanaman ubi jalar di Lampung
Mozambique : des terres cédées à de grands proprios brésiliens
- Global Voices
- 21 August 2011
Le gouvernement du Mozambique est en train de concéder l'usage de six millions d'hectares de terres, soit l'équivalent des deux tiers de la superficie du Portugal, afin que de grands exploitants agricoles brésiliens cultivent du soja, du coton et du maïs dans le nord de ce pays africain.
Obasanjo leads prospective American investors to Taraba
- Vanguard
- 21 August 2011
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has led a Kenya-based American investor to inspect about 30,000 hectares of marshy land in Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State for possible commercial rice cultivation
President Museveni receives Indian investors
- Uganda Media Centre
- 21 August 2011
The President informed them of 3 available modules of investment that they could take advantage of including processing without getting involved in physical production where an investor buys products from farmers, processes them or engage in core plantation and process the produce into finished items or contracting out-growers so that they as a community of producers can benefit.