South Africa

Since Jane Mendillo took over the endowment in July 2008, Harvard’s holdings of forests, farms and other natural resources in Brazil as well as in New Zealand and Romania have grown to about 10 percent of the portfolio -- more than $3 billion -- and she wants to add more.

De petits paysans maliens tentent de récupérer, par la voie judiciaire, les terres qu’ils ont perdues au profit de gros investisseurs privés.

Deux investisseurs visés dans des procédures juridiques, la société SOSUMAR et le négociant en céréales des sociétés 3M, Modibo Keita, ont révisé leur position.

South African group Illovo Sugar has pulled out of a 2.6 billion rand sugar project in Mali, largely due to political risk and also funding difficulties, and will focus on growth opportunities elsewhere in Africa.

Afrifresh Group, a South African agriculture group, is set to acquire a controlling stake in Ariston Holdings, as Emvest pulls out.

African officials have called for greater equity and fairness in trade with the GCC countries that use agricultural land in Africa to feed their populations while famines continue to ravage the continent.

Numero 10/11 de 'Transcontinentales' sur les logiques transnationales d'appropriation foncière.

Le Mozambique a approuvé deux projets agricoles géants représentant au total 660 millions de dollars (505 millions d'euros) d'investissement, et s'étendant sur 90.000 hectares, a annoncé mercredi le porte-parole du gouvernement Henrique Banze.

"We’re dealing with a different enemy now: not with an enemy that emerges from the center to the periphery, as they used to say, but with an enemy that comes at us from all sides."

Foreign countries which buy African farmland in order to gain food security are guilty of a "new form of colonisation," says South Africa's Minister of Agriculture Tina Joemat-Pettersson.

Les pays étrangers qui achètent des terres agricoles en Afrique pour assurer leur approvisionnement en nourriture sont coupables d'une nouvelle forme de colonisation, a affirmé la ministre sud-africaine de l'Agriculture Tina Joemat-Pettersson.

The South African government appears to have abandoned the notion that foreigners should not own land in SA by proposing that foreigners enjoy freehold title but with conditions applied.