Zambia

Can industrialised farming make Africa feed the world?
- BBC
- 24 October 2011
BBC film looks at large-scale industrial farming investments in Zambia.
Structural change in commodity markets: private financial sector investment in agriculture
- OECD
- 17 October 2011
Report by HighQuest Partners for the OECD, October 2011, features 6 case studies of land grabbers: Agrica, CalyxAgro, Cazanae, Jantzen, NFD Agro and Quifel
África está en venta
- El País
- 07 October 2011
Grandes compañías compran tierras para producir alimentos que luego exportan - Mientras, los habitantes locales pasan hambre.
High Level Forum on Foreign Direct Investment in Land in Africa (Lusaka, 4-5 Oct 2011)
- Donor Platform
- 24 August 2011
Organised by the Land Policy Initiative Consortium, this forum aims to reach an appropriate perspectives and concrete actions on how to address the issue of land-based investments in the African continent in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.
Zambia: Nansanga bloc farmers face homelessness
- The Post
- 17 August 2011
About nine thousand people who will be evicted from the Nansanga Farm Bloc in chief Muchinda’s area in Serenje district face destitution because the government has not offered them alternative land.
OPIC board approves nearly $500 million for renewable resources investment funds
- OPIC
- 28 June 2011
The US Overseas Private Investment Corporation pours $150 million into fund targeting farmland acquisitions in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia
ZDA receives only 2 bids for Nansanga bloc
- Zambia Post
- 28 June 2011
Sable Transport Limited of Zambia and Bonafarm Group of Hungary were the only two companies that submitted their bids for the acquisition of the core venture of 9,350 hectares and three other commercial farms.
Zambeef will plough £34M into farmland
- Express
- 13 June 2011
The first Zambian company to float on Aim is planning to join the market in a listing which will help it raise £34million to buy 123,550 acres of prime farming land in Zambia.
How the land lies
- Knight Frank
- 02 June 2011
Investors are thinking big when it comes to farmland purchases, reports Andrew Shirley in Knight Frank's Wealth Report 2011
Des terres convoitées
- La Tribune de Genève
- 20 May 2011
D’ampleur mondiale, le phénomène d’accaparement des terres est aigu en Zambie.
10 firms shortlisted to develop Nansanga farm block – ZDA
- Ukzambians
- 13 May 2011
The Zambia Development Agency has short-listed 10 local and foreign companies (such as Chayton Capital or Pro Alia Investment) which expressed interest in the development of Nansanga farm block (155 000 ha) in Serenje.
How the land lies
- Knight Frank
- 27 April 2011
Agricultural land is once again attracting global investors but the sector is far from risk free.