Sudan

Victims of land grabbing in Kiryandongo district, Uganda have come out to decry the deplorable conditions that they are subjected to by the land evictors at the hand of security officials.

Thousands of families are being violently evicted from their farms to make way for foreign-owned plantations in Kiryandongo, Uganda.

More than 35,000 people from 20 villages are homeless after being evicted from about 9,300 acres [3,764 ha] of land in Kiryandongo District to pave way for large scale farming by foreign-held companies

Companies from countries across the world have acquired fertile Nile-irrigated land for growing food crops, non-food agricultural commodities such as alfalfa, flowers, tobacco, and biofuels, rearing livestock and logging trees.

Investors from largely food-insecure Gulf countries are increasingly buying vast swaths of fertile land irrigated by the Nile River in Sudan to grow food crops to sustain their populations.

À l'origine des manifs qui ont amené à la chute du reǵime : la hausse du prix du pain, multiplié par trois. Pourtant, le Soudan exporte des produits agricoles vers les pays du Golfe, qui ont pris contrôle de plus d'un million d'hectares de ses terres pour leur propres besoins alimentaires.

Little of the 5 million acres [2.02 million hectares] that Sudan's agriculture ministry estimates are in foreign hands—perhaps less than 1 in 20 acres—has been cultivated.

Saudi Arabia and Sudan have launched a new agricultural partnership as part of the implementation of the Arab food security initiative

The new office of the Turkish and Sudanese joint agricultural and livestock company will commence works on a 12,500 ha pilot farm, as part of an agreement in which 780,000 ha in Sudan have been earmarked for Turkish companies.

The Government of Bangladesh has decided to acquire land in Sudan in a bid to explore commercial farming opportunities in the Northeast African country.

Hassad, a subsidiary of Qatar Investment Authority, announces its intention to invest $500mn in the Sudanese agricultural and food sectors over the next three years.

About 500 farmers were left landless when the Sudanese government grabbed it to establish the Habilla Agricultural Project, ignoring their inheritance rights and claiming they had not paid their ‘ownership renewal fee’.