Prime minister's adviser on science and innovation wants Australian companies to consider buying land in Mozambique to counterbalance foreign purchases of farming land in Australia and shore up Australia's food supply.
Mauritius has access to more than 120,000 hectares of farming land in Mozambique and an expression of interest from potential agricultural entrepreneurs was launched last year.
Un dossier réalisé par l’équipe d’Altermondes et reproduit dans demain le monde, mars-avril 2011
South Africa’s biggest farmers union, Agri SA, said its members are seeking to expand into Egypt, Morocco and Sudan while putting plans to enter Libya on hold
Company expands its activities to capitalize on the soft and hard commodity resource boom in West Africa
African farmland investment has the potential to match the exponential growth of Brazil's agricultural industry, the head of business development at privately owned agricultural operator Quifel said.
In Mozambique, there has been an unofficial halt to new large land grants.
Land grabbing in Mozambique by transnational corporations, that hire rural workers who are not able to access lands to produce, is one of the issues that concern peasants of that country the most.
El acaparamiento de tierras en Mozambique por parte de corporaciones transnacionales, que incorporan en sus filas a trabajadores rurales que no tienen posibilidades de acceder a la tierra y producir en ella, es uno de los temas que más preocupa al campesinado de ese país.
"L'accaparement des terres c'est du banditisme d'Etat." Entretiens vidéos avec Ibrahim Coulibaly (la CNOP, Mali), Renaldo Chingore João (l'UNAC, Mozamique) et Melanie Kasom (la Confédération Paysanne, Congo).
Many South African farmers have indicated an interest to start operations in Mozambique, according to agricultural union Agri SA.
Thousands of white South African farmers are leaving their homeland to work abroad due to post-apartheid land reforms, a shortage of affordable territory and severe water shortages.
