Former Nigerian president Obasanjo calls on African Union to develop a framework for managing foreign investment in agriculture, and says governments should consider a moratorium on large-scale land deals pending legislation to protect smallholder farmers.
We are witnessing a second scramble for Africa and other poor countries by rich nations and agribusinesses to acquire land for agricultural and biofuel purposes.
"The project has been terminated due to the failure of T4M inability to fulfill their side of the agreement"
Nigeria's Sokoto State Government and Novel Management Services of Switzerland sign a N35 billion deal for a rice project covering 25,000 ha of land in the River Rima basin.
"Today, all patriotic Africans are weeping when they see how African governments are giving out African lands, dispossessing the African people of their ancestral land, for practically next to nothing, in the name of attracting foreign investors!", writes Abba Mahmood
Overview of the palm oil sector in West Africa - major players (Siva, SIAT, Sime Darby, SIFCA, Bolloré, Olam...), hectarage under foreign corporate control, etc.
Dominion Farms will start planting rice in December 2012 on its 30,000 ha rice farm in Taraba and has trained 50 commercial farmers in Kenya who will soon start their own commercial rice operations in Nigeria.
Le dernier bulletin d'information du Hub Rural sur les actualités foncières ouest-africaines vient de sortir.
Le dernier bulletin d'information du Hub Rural sur les actualités foncières ouest-africaines vient de sortir.
We are interested in the opportunity of farming in Nigeria and we are happy that the government is facilitating that process," says Hassad Food Operations and Asset Management executive director Andrew Goodman.
Le dernier bulletin d'information du Hub Rural sur les actualités foncières ouest-africaines vient de sortir.
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