This LDPI Working Paper Series includes work in progress presented at the 2024 Global Land Grabbing Conference in Bogotá, addressing urgent challenges related to land, water, and natural resource grabbing.
- Agrarian Conversations
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17 April 2024
Globe-trotting billionaire Mo Dewji made a fortune in East Africa selling palm oil, rope, and soda. Now he says he's trying to acquire 100,000 ha in Rufiji and another part of Tanzania for sugarcane and cereal plantations.
The tentacles of India-based Mozambique Holdings Ltd reached the locality of Mabu in 2013, when it acquired a 10,000-hectare land concession from the old tea company Madal SARL.
Dewji, owner of the MeTL Group, said the new company will produce grains and edible oils in Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia and the Central African Republic
A new study suggests the effects of large-scale land acquisitions are detrimental to food security and the livelihood of smallholder farmers.
- Salaam Gateway
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13 April 2022
Os camponeses da zona de Namariessa, comunidade de Namale, distrito de Ribaué, na província de Nampula, a Moçambique, queixam-se de estar a viver momentos muito difíceis por terem supostamente cedido as suas terras à empresa Promo Comercial.
New FoEAfrica documentary shows the impacts of industrial plantation expansion on women in Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire and Mozambique
- FoE Africa
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28 December 2021
In order to attract capital, selected regions for development projects must dramatize their potential as places for investment, carefully selecting project locations and participants who will make compromises so as to conceal failure, virtually guaranteeing that the programme will be declared a success when the time comes for evaluation.
- The Elephant
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26 November 2021
Trade in agricultural services is a practical option to meet Chinese firms' demand to invest in overseas agricultural projects and pursue "going global" strategies, says Chinese official
- China Daily
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27 October 2021
UK-based social impact and sub-Saharan-focused investor AgDevCo announced its latest investment of $3 million in Quinta da Bela Vista Limitada – an irrigated banana estate in Mozambique’s Boane area.
The Silverlands I portfolio, the continent’s largest agricultural investment fund, includes primary production and beef and poultry assets across South Africa, Namibia, eSwatini, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique.
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
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07 April 2021