Au Soudan et en Ethiopie, le gouvernement djiboutien dispose de près de 10 000 hectares de terres fertiles irrigables (4200 au Soudan et 5000 en Ethiopie). Djibouti se dit disposé à concéder au groupe algérien Cevital l’exploitation de ces terres.
Mientras que el 40% de la población subsahariana no dispone de acceso al agua potable, los inversores internacionales hacen negocio acaparando los territorios por donde transita.
Lebanese farmland investor GLB Invest plans to invest up to $800 million in Sudan to produce animal feed to be sold to Saudi Arabia, its president said on Tuesday.
A Saudi firm will hold off its planned project in Sudan to produce wheat and other basic food items until the government eases a ban to repatriate profits.
Agricultural investment firm GLB presented its Sudan alfafa production project, which produces feed for animals in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, to participants at the agriculture investment conference in Sudan.
Sudan investment minister Mustafa Osman Ismail revealed that Saudi Arabia requested over million acres (405,000 ha) of land for investment in food security
The member countries also agreed to draft a unified strategy for cooperation with other Arab countries that have agricultural land, including Sudan, Morocco and Yemen, as well as with African countries.
Last week, hundreds of Sudanese protested in Eastern Khartoum demanding the government revoke the sale of farming lands to Gulf investors. There is no logical reason behind these demonstrations except ignorance of the reality of the GCC approach, says economist.
Sudanese police used tear gas and batons to break up a protest of more than 250 people on Friday demanding that the government revoke the sale of farming land to Gulf Arab investors
President Omar Al-Beshir has made orders for removal of all impediments and facilitation of the procedures for Saudi Arabian investors aiming to produce food in Sudan, including through land leases
Private Egyptian investors to plant sunflower on 210,000ha of land earmarked for joint agricultural projects under a deal reached by President Mohamed Mursi and President Hassan Omar al-Bashir.
Joint investment company will harness Sudan's resources in agriculture and livestock in line with the foreign economic policy of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah.
