Mozambique

Africa 'offers food security'
- Gulf Daily News
- 03 December 2008
Africa could be the breadbasket for the GCC, providing valuable water and food supplies to the entire region, a Bahraini expert claimed yesterday.
Gulf should weigh agro investments
- Gulf News
- 30 August 2008
Gulf countries contemplating direct agro-investments in central Asia and Africa should evaluate the relative merit of these investments in comparison to similar potential in Eur-ope and Latin America, the Gulf Research Centre said in a recent report.
En Afrique, les fermiers oubliés
- JDD
- 26 August 2008
"Depuis quelques mois, nous observons un regain d'intérêt pour nos terres, des acheteurs s'emparent de très grandes surfaces acquises avec des facilités dérangeantes, dans la zone du lac de Guiers, par exemple", affirme Ndiogou Fall, sénégalais et président exécutif de la Roppa
Small farmers at risk in land scramble
- Financial Times
- 11 August 2008
Small-scale farmers with limited knowledge of their rights stand to lose most as countries such as China and Saudi Arabia expand their quest for African farmland, analysts have warned.
China and Mozambique invest in the Zambezi Valley to make Chinese “grain store”, says researcher
- Macauhub
- 20 July 2008
Chinese and Mozambican governments want to make the Zambezi Valley region of Mozambique a centre for rice production for the Chinese market, which is faced with increased consumption and less and less arable land, says researcher Loro Horta, a specialist in relations between China and Portuguese-speaking African countries.
Mauritius: Food security
- Gvt of Mauritius
- 26 June 2008
An agreement for the allocation of 5,000 hectares of land in the Beira region was signed by Mauritius and Mozambique early this year.
The Zambezi Valley: China’s First Agricultural Colony?
- Online Africa Policy Forum
- 08 June 2008
China’s search for new land has led Beijing to aggressively seek large land leases in Mozambique over the past two years, particularly in its most fertile areas, such as the Zambezi valley in the north and the Limpopo valley in the south.
La Chine compte étendre sa surface agricole…à l’étranger
- Food, Feed, Fuel
- 12 May 2008
Dans un souci de reprendre le contrôle sur son approvisionnement alimentaire, les autorités étudient actuellement la mise en place d’une politique incitative visant à encourager les entreprises agricoles chinoises à acheter et louer des terres cultivables en grande quantité, plus particulièrement en Afrique et en Amérique du sud.
Wikileaks: Mozambique's agricultural sector ripe for US investment
- Wikileaks
- 18 Mar 2008
"Only 12 percent of Mozambique's arable land is under cultivation. Mozambique's agriculture minister is actively courting international agricultural investment," reports the US Embassy in Maputo
China, Mozambique: old friends, new business
- ISN Security Watch
- 13 August 2007
In 2006, Beijing and Maputo signed a memorandum of understanding concerning the creation of a massive agricultural project in the Zambezi river valley area.