South Africa

El Gobierno de Georgia ha optado por una una solución poco ortodoxa para levantar la agricultura del país: tentar a los descendientes de los bóers holandeses que se afincaron en el sur de África con tierras a precio de regalo y ciudadanía.

South Africa’s biggest farmers union, Agri SA, said its members are seeking to expand into Egypt, Morocco and Sudan while putting plans to enter Libya on hold

Of the 16 applications received, only six were from Zambia while the rest were from foreign investors from the UK, Egypt, China, Hungary, Mauritius, Switzerland and South Africa.

A group of South African farmers is getting ready to go up to the Republic of the Congo and start with commercial agriculture in the central African state.

Au Mali, le Parti pour la Renaissance Nationale a rendu public un mémorandum relatif à la politique gouvernementale de cession des terres agricoles dans la zone Office du Niger.

« Pendant 78 ans, l’Office du Niger n’a pas pu aménager 100 000 ha. C’est un privé qui pourra le faire ? » Entretien avec Kassoum Denon.

Many South African farmers have indicated an interest to start operations in Mozambique, according to agricultural union Agri SA.

Nehawu, the powerful union representing education and health workers, wants President Jacob Zuma to ban or at least limit foreign land ownership in South Africa.

Thousands of white South African farmers are leaving their homeland to work abroad due to post-apartheid land reforms, a shortage of affordable territory and severe water shortages.

Zuma said his administration is looking at ways to ensure greater access to land for the country’s black majority, including a possible ban on property ownership by foreigners.

The government of Georgia is offering state-owned farmland, for purchase, to farmer members of the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) in South Africa

South African farmers moving to neighbouring African states are not putting SA’s food security under threat, says Willie du Plessis, a director of agricultural banking at Standard Bank.