Zimbabwe

Chiwenga courts private sector, commercial farmers
- Bulawayo 24
- 05 May 2020
Zimbabawe's Government cites pandemic in allocating 7,000 hectares of irrigated crop land in Beitbridge district to private companies, including Schweppes.
Food-insecure Zimbabwe turns to Belarus to revive agric sector
- Independent
- 09 Mar 2020
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is planning to parcel out vast tracts of prime horticultural land to the Belarusian government in a deal that will see the eastern European nation farming and exporting produce.
Sunbird takes cassava production head-on
- Daily Mail
- 13 January 2020
Mauritius-based Sunbird Bionergy is pursuing a US$190 million cassava outgrower ethanol project in Zimbabwe's Luena farm block that includes a seedlings plantation that will eventually cover 10,000 ha.
Indian billionaire eyes Zim prime agric land
- Herald
- 09 December 2019
Indian billionaire and Pepsi International franchise holder Ravi Jaipuria wants to acquire vast swathes of prime land in Zimbabwe to diversify into production of key agricultural products.
Tycoon sued over illegal land grab
- Zim Eye
- 13 December 2018
Villagers in Chipinge, Manicaland province have dragged ethanol producer, Green Fuel to court to stop it from occupying their communal land and interfering with their farming activities
Tongaat seeks bids for 4 000ha sugar project
- The Chronicle
- 21 November 2018
Sugar giant, Tongaat Hullets, is seeking bids from companies or individuals with capacity to develop 4 000 hectares of virgin land to boost sugarcane production in the lowveld of Zimbabwe
Private sector to drive Command Agriculture
- Bulawayo
- 29 October 2018
In order to facilitate private sector investment in agriculture, the Government of Zimbabwe will expedite issuance of bankable 99 year leases to allow farmers access to funding from financial institutions.
Zimbabwe opposition MDC 'will expel Chinese investors'
- BBC
- 02 May 2018
Nelson Chamisa has vowed, if he wins elections due in July, to expel Chinese investors who have stakes worth many billions of dollars in everything from agriculture to construction.
Zimbabwe : Sub-Sahara Capital annoncée dans un investissement de 1,6 million aux côtés de la société ProDairy
- Agence Ecofin
- 15 Mar 2018
La firme zimbabwéenne ProDairy s’est associée à la firme de capital-investissement Sub-Sahara Capital, basée à New-York, pour développer des pâturages spécialisés
The sugar rush in southern Africa
- Zimbabweland
- 03 October 2016
The land rush in southern Africa is often a sugar rush, with the ‘white gold’ promising riches to governments, local elites and large corporates alike.
Amid epic drought, villagers bitter over Zimbabwean ethanol plant
- Mongabay
- 08 August 2016
Locals allege the Green Fuel ethanol plant has grabbed land and displaced families without compensation, polluted water supplies, and failed to pay its workers — leaving them with few options in a region beset by drought.
Why Chinese agriculture engagement in Africa is not what it seems
- China File
- 16 May 2016
Based on new research in four African countries, Professor Ian Scoones says far from being on a land-grabbing spree in Africa, Chinese immigrant farmers and the deployment of Chinese agricultural technology and training programmes are having a positive impact.