Tanzania

S. Korea to build farming infrastructure in Tanzania
- Yonhap
- 24 September 2009
South Korea will develop 100,000 ha of farmland in Tanzania to make inroads into African and European markets, a state-run rural development corporation said Thursday.
India offers to spur green revolution in drought-hit Tanzania
- IANS
- 15 September 2009
Tanzania has offered to lease land to Indian private companies for a period of 99 years, as it pitched for increased investment in the agricultural sector.
Farmland investment fund is seeking more than Dh1bn
- The National
- 12 September 2009
What started as a government drive to secure cheap food resource has now become a viable business model and many Gulf companies are venturing into agricultural investments to diversify their portfolios.
Zanzibar to host major Afro-Arab conference
- The Citizen
- 10 September 2009
A conference to discuss ways of boosting agricultural production in Africa will be held in Zanzibar later this month
CGIAR joins global farmland grab
- GRAIN
- 08 September 2009
An internal document recently posted on IRRI's website reveals that the Institute has been advising Saudi Arabia in the context of its strategy to acquire farm land overseas for its own food production.
Call for GCC 'land grab' policy to stop - experts
- Arabian Business
- 07 September 2009
Agricultural experts have called for a halt to moves by Gulf investors to snap up foreign land, amid claims that poor nations are losing much-needed farmland in a calculated land grab.
Development experts fear unchecked international land grabs in Africa
- Deutsche Welle
- 13 August 2009
The consensus is that Africa is being out-gunned. While regulations & rules are debated, the amount of land being bought up by foreign investors is increasing at a rapacious speed.
Egypt: Southern farming
- Business Today
- 10 August 2009
The wheat farms in Sudan & Uganda are not Egypt’s first foray into overseas farming — the government operates a corn farm in Zambia, a rice farm in Niger, a vegetable farm in Tanzania and plans 14 more farms across Africa — but they are significant because they are among the first efforts to address wheat scarcity after the instability of 2008.
Multinationals now target land
- The Citizen
- 31 July 2009
Philip Kiriro of the East Africa Farmers' Federation says the countries most endangered by landgrabbing in the region are Tanzania and DRC
Saudi firm to invest $3 bln in Turkey farms
- Reuters
- 10 July 2009
Private Saudi firm Planet Food World (PFWC) will invest around $3 billion in agriculture in Turkey over the next five years to export food products to the Gulf region, the head of its Turkish unit said.
Interview: India Yes Bank sees 1st Africa farm project start 2011
- Reuters
- 15 June 2009
Yes Bank expects a $150 million Tanzanian rice and wheat project to reach full production by 2011, the first of several large African farms it is funding. "We are looking at a more inclusive model wherein the local farmers can be organised into a producers company, and they would be the suppliers to the processing facility. It's predominantly not to acquire huge tracts of land."
La Chine et l’Afrique : cela ne fait que commencer
- Les Afriques
- 07 June 2009
Au delà de sa boulimie pour les matières premières du sous-sol africain, la Chine a aussi commencé à s’intéresser à l’agriculture africaine.