New study by SNV and the Royal Tropical Institute looks at rising farmland acquisitions by domestic agro-investors in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger

Principaux éléments de l’intervention de Monsieur Abdoul Karim Mamalo, Secrétaire Permanent du Code Rural au Ministère du Développement Agricole du Niger lors de l’Assemblée Générale d’AGTER. Le 1er Sept 2009

The wheat farms in Sudan & Uganda are not Egypt’s first foray into overseas farming — the government operates a corn farm in Zambia, a rice farm in Niger, a vegetable farm in Tanzania and plans 14 more farms across Africa — but they are significant because they are among the first efforts to address wheat scarcity after the instability of 2008.