Sudan

Le Sud-Soudan devient formellement indépendant samedi. Ravagé par la guerre, convoité pour son pétrole, le nouveau pays dispose d'un fort potentiel agricole. Et les investisseurs étrangers l'ont bien compris.

In recent months, farmers have staged sporadic demonstrations against what they consider an unacceptable offer by the government to buy their land. Some have degenerated into violent confrontations with the police.

Wafra, Citadel Capital’s Platform Company for investments in the Sudanese agricultural industry, released today details of recent operational milestones including the conclusion of its first commercial wheat harvest in Sudan’s White Nile State.

Small farmers are the backbone of worldwide food production. But their existence is endangered because their governments are leasing large tracts of land to foreign companies.

The governor of Khartoum State affirmed his support for Qatar Livestock Company (Mawashi) and directed official authorities to provide it with land plots for establishing its projects

Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Agriculture calls Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine “probable countries of investment” in farmland and confirms Kingdom's continued interest in farmland in south Sudan.

The escalation of violence around the north-south border in the run-up to Sudan’s big divide has sparked fears of a new civil war, but experts contend that the issue is more about land and water rather than oil.

For the sake of peace and future development cooperation, the nations of the Nile River Basin should come together to ban land grabs by foreign governments and agribusiness firms, writes Lester Brown

In some of the countries where the land investments are being made, people will block the trucks that are hauling the grain from the fields to the ports, says Lester Brown in this interview with NPR

Governor of Northern State says an Emirates investor, to whom 95,000 acres have been allocated in Um-Jawaseer, will invest USD 15 million.

Authorities arrest dozens of demonstrators and prevent journalists from reaching the area, while the office of Sudan's 2nd Vice president Ali Osman Taha denies reports that he has agreed to grant Egyptian farmers one million acres.

Other countries believe their agricultural expertise can kickstart an agrarian revolution across the African continent