• A global rsh for Africa’s land: risks and opportunities
    • AfDB
    • 17 October 2012

    Chief Economist of African Development Bank says African governments need to undertake institutional reforms, such as land auction systems, to obtain value from recent surge in land acquisition.

  • AAF chez les francophones
    • Jeune Afrique
    • 01 July 2012

    Le conseil de surveillance du fonds dédié à l'agriculture en Afrique, African Agriculture Fund, s'est réuni à Lusaka pour clôturer une levée de 250 millions de dollars. Une partie est destinée à des entreprises en Afrique francophone.

  • Karuturi seeks $100 million to start Ethiopian sugar plantation
    • Bloomberg
    • 13 June 2012

    The company has approached the African Development Bank, the African Export-Import Bank and the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank to raise another $100 million for a sugarcane estate.

  • La situation foncière en Afrique à l’horizon 2050
    • AFD
    • 23 February 2012

    Cette étude propose une méthode pour comprendre ce qui pourrait advenir en matière de sécurité foncière et alimentaire, de conflits portant sur les terres et de logement, si se prolongeaient ou s’amplifiaient les tendances observées aujourd’hui.

  • Land grabs: Threat or opportunity?
    • Al Jazeera
    • 17 October 2011

    With 75% of the world's population making their living from farming, buying land in foreign countries to feed your country's growing population is not always welcome by the locals. Are land grabs good business or is it morally questionable?

  • Naïrobi: la BAD, l’UA et la CEA examinent l’investissement foncier
    • Fasozine
    • 29 September 2011

    La Banque africaine de développement, la Commission de l'Union africaine et la Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l'Afrique organisent conjointement à Nairobi un Forum de haut niveau sur l’investissement direct étranger dans les terres agricoles en Afrique

  • AfDB, AUC and UNECA to discuss land investment in Nairobi
    • AfDB
    • 28 September 2011

    The African Development Bank, the African Union Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa will co-organize a high level Forum on foreign direct investments in agricultural land in Africa on 4 and 5 October 2011 in Nairobi

  • BAD: Investimento estrangeiro "é bem-vindo mas precisa de um quadro legal" - ex-Presidente do Botsuana
    • Lusa
    • 09 June 2011

    O investimento estrangeiro em terras no continente africano "é bem-vindo mas precisa de um quadro legal que garanta a transparência", afirmou hoje o ex-Presidente do Botsuana em Lisboa à Agência Lusa.

  • BAD: China e Suécia na "corrida à terra" em Moçambique -- CoDA
    • Lusa
    • 07 June 2011

    Moçambique é um dos alvos principais da "corrida à terra" por investimentos estrangeiros no continente africano, com a China e a Suécia à frente dos principais projetos, revelou hoje em Lisboa a Coligação para o Diálogo Sobre África (CoDA).

  • Code of conduct for land acquisition and land use in agricultural and agribusiness projects
    • AfDB
    • 03 June 2011

    A code of conduct developed by the African Development Bank that is being used as a guideline for investments by the African Agriculture Fund.

  • Sucre : Yes we canne !
    • Jeune Afrique
    • 02 Mar 2011

    Dangote Industries, une des plus importantes compagnie du Nigéria, veut produire de la canne à sucre sur 40,000 ha au Sénégal.

  • Land grab or opportunity of a lifetime?
    • Reuters
    • 30 January 2011

    As an investment destination, Africa can be a confounding place. The latest bout of turmoil and violence in Cote d'Ivoire and Tunisia looks to all the world like another chapter in an unending cycle of political instability.

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