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.
Laa Banque africaine de développement a approuvé, le 6 décembre 2010, l’octroi d’un prêt à la République du Mali, d’un montant de près de 65 millions d’euros, destiné à financer deux volets importants du projet sucrier de Markala (PSM).
The fund will operate according to a Code of Conduct for Land Acquisition and Land Use in to prevent unsustainable practices.
Agri-Vie, a private equity fund focused on food and agribusiness investments - including farmland - in subSaharan Africa, closed its first fund with participation from Kellogg Foundation, NorFund, IFC and AfDB.
In lead up to Tunis Conference, African Development Bank calls for reforms to African land laws to facilitate private investment in agriculture.
The African Agriculture Fund and its portfolio companies commit themselves to these principles and guidelines in undertaking agricultural and agribusiness investments across Africa.
The Fund will operate according to a Socially Responsible Investment Manual that features, for the first time in the area of Agribusiness private equity, a Code of Conduct for Land Acquisition and Land Use in Agricultural and Agribusiness Projects to prevent unsustainable practices in land acquisition and land use.
Le Fonds pour l’agriculture en Afrique sera financé par la Banque africaine de développement (Bad) et l’Agence française de développement (AFD) à hauteur de 40 millions de dollars chacun.
Entretien avec Aboubacar Fall, conseiller juridique de la Banque Africaine du Développement
IFAD says that "land grab deals" are opportunities and should be transparent.
The food crisis in African states will not be solved by investment to spur agricultural production because the problem is not food output but poverty that is making food unaffordable for urban Africans.
La création du Fonds d'investissement pour l'agriculture africaine ne répond pas aux objectifs de lutte contre la faim.
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