South Africa

Georgia calls on SA farmers for help
- Business Day
- 31 December 2010
The government of Georgia is offering state-owned farmland, for purchase, to farmer members of the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) in South Africa
New Great Trek ‘is no threat to SA’s food supply’
- Business Day
- 20 December 2010
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.
Outsourced African farming threatens to alienate locals
- The National
- 20 December 2010
Not since Belgium's King Leopold turned the Congo into his personal market-garden has so much land been allocated to offshore nations.
SA farmers set sights on Moz
- Reuters
- 13 December 2010
More South African farmers expect to receive land offers in Mozambique as they seek to expand across Africa amid uncertainty over land reform at home, an official from a mostly white farmers group said
Le Groupe de la BAD octroie un prêt de 65 millions d’euros pour financer le projet sucrier de Markala
- BAD
- 08 December 2010
Laa Banque africaine de développement a approuvé, le 6 décembre 2010, l’octroi d’un prêt à la République du Mali, d’un montant de près de 65 millions d’euros, destiné à financer deux volets importants du projet sucrier de Markala (PSM).
Mozambique : Les fermiers blancs d'Afrique du Sud à la conquête du reste du continent
- Angola Press
- 05 December 2010
L'Afrique assiste à une migration de fermiers blancs qui quittent l'Afrique du Sud, effrayés par sa criminalité et sa politique de redistribution des terres, pour conquérir les espaces inexploités du reste du continent.
Georgia calling on African farmers
- ABN
- 19 November 2010
The Transvaal Agricultural Union believes as many as a thousand skilled South African farmers could go to plough their own furrow in Georgia where the government is offering them 80,000 ha
Agri-Vie, with Herman Marais
- ABN
- 17 November 2010
Agri-Vie, a private equity fund focused on food and agribusiness investments - including farmland - in subSaharan Africa, closed its first fund with participation from Kellogg Foundation, NorFund, IFC and AfDB.
Boer farmers head for new home in Georgia
- The Independent
- 09 November 2010
In what would be an extraordinary migration, the Georgian government has invited South Africa's farmers to buy up land in the country for next to nothing in exchange for bringing their expertise and knowledge of modern farming methods.
China courts SA’s commercial farmers
- Farmers Weekly
- 01 October 2010
The Chinese are aware that South Africa has a research problem and they know they need farming skills for the land they’re acquiring in Africa, says Dr De Jager of AgriSA.
Stanbic funds agric in Africa
- Daily Guide Ghana
- 02 September 2010
Standard Bank Plc has affirmed its commitment to finance agriculture in Africa over a long term because Africa has vast stretch of arable lands. Additionally, the bank intends to improve food security and eliminate hunger in the world.
African farms lure overseas investment
- Business Report
- 01 September 2010
45 new private equity funds are planning to invest US$2 billion in African agriculture in the next 3-5 years, according to participants at the Africainvestor Agribusiness Project Summit taking place in Durban