One of China’s biggest agriculture investment companies, the Hainan Co Ltd for International Economic Corporation, have announced that they have approved the sum of US$ 1,231,986,200 for the production of rubber and rice on 40,000 ha of land in Sierra Leone
Un conglomérat chinois a annoncé mercredi qu'il allait investir 1,3 milliard de dollars pour développer la culture du riz et du caoutchouc en Sierra Leone, le plus gros investissement jamais réalisé dans le secteur agricole dans ce pays.
Fifty year lease agreement for 20,980 ha signed between Miro Forestry (SL) Limited and representatives of the Yoni Chiefdom, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone in December 2011.
Vietnam's Long Van 28 Company is planning to seek funding from the Government to invest in some 200,000 hectares of rice in Sierra Leone.
Issue number 4/2011 of 'New Routes' by Life & Peace Institute (Uppsala)
Right now, on the desks of Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) there is the background material for an application of credit guarantee for an 8000 ha sugar plantation and a refinery in Bagamoyo, Tanzania.
La firme américaine s'étend en Gambie et Sierra Léone.
US company with 100,000 ha in Guinea now looking to expand into The Gambia and Sierra Leone.
L’entreprise genevoise Addax Bioenergy a vendu son projet d’éthanol au Sierra Leone comme un «projet durable» auprès des investisseurs et a ainsi obtenu plus de la moitié des fonds de la part de banques de développement, dont la Banque Africaine de Développement, qui est appuyée par la Suisse. Une nouvelle étude de Pain pour le Prochain montre que le projet est loin d’être durable.
In August 2011, Phatisa concluded its first transaction to invest US$ 10 million alongside the Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation Limited (FINNFUND) and the Company’s Sponsors, in Goldtree a palm oil plantation and milling company in Sierra Leone, representing a total investment of US$ 20 million.
“We decided to go on hunger strike at the ADAX Energy Canteen at Kontobi in Port Loko as fellow Sierra Leone employees were facing segregation,” says Sierra Leone Deputy Minister.
The adoption by the UN Committee on World Food Security of international guidelines to regulate land grabs has been pushed to next year
