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Foreing investors from Vietnam, China and Israel are reported to have acquired large areas of farmland in Nigeria's Edo State for the production of rice, cassava and livestock.
Proposing ‘grandiose solutions without first diagnosing the causes of what ails Africa and her people has never stopped the World Bank, corporations and the odd billionaire from prescribing the wrong medicine for the continent,’ writes Joan Baxter, as the Bank makes plans to ‘unlock’ the future of African agriculture. (Photo: ILRI)
Ukraine's land-sales ban “hampers development of the agricultural sector,” says country's President Viktor Yanukovych
Ukraine's land-sales ban “hampers development of the agricultural sector,” says country's President Viktor Yanukovych
(L-r white) Sime Darby's Mohd Zulkifi and Raymee Hashim tour with a group of students at its Cape Mount nurseries
(L-r white) Sime Darby's Mohd Zulkifi and Raymee Hashim tour with a group of students at its Cape Mount nurseries
"The government in Madagascar should be working to improve local agriculture and support people in Madagascar to develop sustainable local agriculture not working to sell our lands to foreign corporations," says Mamy Rakotondrainibe of the Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches
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South Africans buying farms in other African countries, such as Lance Spear (above), who owns a large plantation in Mozambique, want bilateral investment treaties to protect their investments. (Photo: AFP)
The market at the Shoa Gate, one of six gates into Harar. The Ethiopian government says new roads provided by large companies give small and medium-sized farms improved access to markets for their crops. (Photo: Robert Harding Picture Library L/Alamy)
Professor Robin Batterham, advisor to the prime minister on science and innovation, wants Australian companies to consider buying land in Mozambique to counterbalance foreign purchases of farming land in Australia and shore up Australia's food supply. ''As an investment, why aren't some of our larger farms - that is the companies that own them - also investing in places where the soil is a bloody sight better than Australia's? 'This is no different to companies like Rio Tinto investing in sub-Saharan countries for minerals.''
"Bahraini investors help meet demand in the kingdom from farmland bought in Thailand and the Philippines," says Bahraini Member of Parliament. (Photo: Ahmed Ramzan/Gulf News)
