South Sudan's Deputy Minister for Foreign and International Cooperation Deng Dau Deng Malek placed the proposal in a meeting with Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque in Dhaka.
The Israeli company has farms in Juba and Jebel Ladu in Central Equatoria State, Bor in Jonglei State, Renk in Upper Nile, and Torit, Eastern Equatoria State, as well as Community Commercial Farming Projects in Wau, Gok and Rumbek towns.
With the backing of Kiryandongo district police, Great Season Company, owned by the South Sudan nationals is violently and forcefully evicting hundreds of native families off their land.
Land deals along River Nile could easily impair its recharging potential if water abstraction is not regulated.
In our APRA study, we have been asking: what actually happens on the ground, even when corridors as originally planned are slow to materialise? Do the grand visions play out as expected? Who is involved and who loses out?
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
Selon une étude universitaire suédoise, l’achat de terres agricoles en Afrique par des sociétés étrangères, augmente les risques de conflits et de tensions sur les ressources en eau.
In the last decade, more than 22 million ha of land have been contracted to large-scale land acquisitions in Africa, leading to increased pressures, competition, and conflicts over freshwater resources.
Egypt’s government has pledged to implement a model farm project occupying 10,000 acres in Wau in South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal state
The film shows a contract worth just US$25,000 (Dh92,000) for 600,000 hectares of land, with full exploitation rights, made out to Howard Douglas, a former United States ambassador and coordinator for refugee affairs.
On Al Jazeera’s talk show South2North, Redi Tlhabi debates the new scramble for Africa with former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, Nigerian politician Nkoyo Toyo and Philippe Heilberg, a land investor from the US.
An ex-Wall Street banker jets off to South Sudan to show how investors are rushing to Africa in a modern-day land-grab. Watch Al Jazeera 'Witness'.
