Sudan

US investor buys Sudanese warlord’s land
- Financial Times
- 09 January 2009
A US businessman backed by former CIA and state department officials says he has secured a vast tract of fertile land in south Sudan from the family of a notorious warlord.
Quest to create a new Sudan bread basket
- Financial Times
- 09 January 2009
Unity state, where Philippe Heilberg, a US businessman, says he has secured a huge tract of arable land, is inaccessible even by south Sudan’s standards. Apart from AK-47 assault rifles, it is deprived of most of the trappings of the modern world.
U.S. firm to invest in agriculture in South Sudan
- Sudan Tribune
- 03 January 2009
A privately held US investment firm entered into an agricultural investment with a company controlled by the son of a South Sudanese general.
La konkista de la tierra
- La Jornada
- 27 December 2008
Los defensores del modelo de poner a producir las tierras desde los gobiernos, inversionistas o grandes corporaciones argumentan que se generan puestos de trabajo, que se hace rendir tierras ociosas y que se producen alimentos. Pero en ese análisis falta el principal elemento. La pobreza en el mundo reside en el campo, precisamente por modelos como éste.
A vendre : pays pauvres
- Le Nouvel Observateur
- 23 December 2008
Le Cambodge a annoncé qu’il devrait avoir signé d’ici à mi- 2009 et que les accords concerneraient 2,5 millions d’hectares (l’équivalent de la Bretagne). Notons que le pays continue de recevoir une aide d’urgence du Programme alimentaire mondial, ce qui permet de douter de sa capacité à nourrir à la fois sa population et celle du Golfe…
Madgascar, Kenya question widsom of foreign land deals
- Global Voices
- 21 December 2008
Such blockbuster deals neglect to take into consideration the true interests of the farmers
Queries as Qatar seeks to grow food in Kenya
- Daily Nation
- 19 December 2008
It has now emerged that the land in question is part of the fertile Tana River delta in Coast Province, the same stretch where plans by Mumias Sugar Company to build a sugar factory have raised objections from pastoralists claiming that their animals will lack pasture and the environment will be destroyed.
Sudan: Can Local Investors Beat Foreign Investment?
- IPS
- 18 December 2008
Sudan is hoping to use foreign cash to reinvigorate its under-performing agricultural sector, but there is growing disagreement over the extent to which outsiders, rather than local farmers, should be taking control of the industry.
Rich countries carry out '21st century land grab'
- New Scientist
- 04 December 2008
Nomadic herders, rarely a priority for governments, are being dispossessed by bioethanol developments in Kenya, says Michael Taylor of the International Land Coalition (ILC), and they also depend on the “unused” land that Madagascar offered Daewoo.
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.
Agricultural investment in Sudan to resume early 2009
- Jordan Times
- 30 November 2008
The stalled Jordanian agricultural megaproject in Sudan is expected to be resumed at the beginning of 2009
What ails Sudan’s agricultural sector
- Arab News
- 22 November 2008
Saudi Arabia is in a better position to forge politico-economic partnerships with other countries with a view to achieving food security. The best partner in this respect is Sudan, known as the food basket of the Arab world. But foreigners are reluctant to invest in Sudan and the efforts made by the Sudanese government to overcome this reluctance have not met with much success.