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Issad Rebrab : l'Afrique, Cevital et moi
- Jeune Afrique
- 03 December 2012
Fondateur et patron du premier groupe privé algérien, Cevital, Issad Rebrab sillonne désormais l'Afrique à la recherche d'opportunités d'investissement.
Resisting Sime Darby: Oil palm development slammed at Gbarpolu conference
- FrontPageAfrica
- 02 December 2012
Citizens at a conference in Bopolu expressed strong opposition to planned oil-palm development by Sime Darby in Gbarpolu County.
Letter and resolution of the landholding families, Malen Chiefdom, Sierra Leone
- MALOA
- 01 December 2012
Community members defy intimidation and arrests and appeal for international support in their struggle to stop SOCFIN from operating on lands the company acquired without their consent.
Shaikh Khalid Al Khalifa: Turning Arab investment into Africa requires guaranteeing legislation
- BNA
- 01 December 2012
Shaikh Khalid said that the Arab countries have a serious desire to join the African market and benefit from the natural resources ready for investment, particularly in the agricultural field.
Civil society groups to investors: Stop land grabbing
- AkanimoReports
- 30 November 2012
Major farmland investors such as banks and pension funds must stop facilitating land grabs, civil society groups on the eve of a global farmland investment conference in London on December 3-5, have said.
Australian elite seeks to bridge Middle East investment gulf
- WSJ
- 30 November 2012
“When things are mortgaged up to the hilt and the banks are involved then it’s either bank ownership or foreign ownership,” says South Australian sheep farmer Brian Wilson
Les investisseurs mettent le cap sur l'Afrique
- Challenges
- 30 November 2012
Une conférence vient de réunir à Paris 140 spécialistes du capital-investissement et des cadres de la diaspora africaine pour vendre le potentiel d'un continent en pleine révolution économique.
Invest in food on climate change risk: Baring
- Reuters
- 30 November 2012
Taking tracts of agricultural land is among ways to play the risks of climate change says Baring Asset Management's chief investment officer, Marino Valensise.
Kenana to invest US$ 2 bn in five years
- ANBA
- 30 November 2012
Kenana Sugar Company is the head of the spear of the Sudanese project for agricultural development. While governments and Arab companies discuss strategies for the sector, the organisation plans to invest US$ 2 billion over the next five years in several expansion projects.
Western Autralia Government not privy to Chinese farm deal
- AAP
- 30 November 2012
WA Australian Agriculture Minister Terry Redman can't shed light on reports a Chinese agricultural giant could buy up to $4 billion worth of prime farmland after snapping up some 30,000 hectares in the past month.
Adiós al ejido
- La Jornada
- 30 November 2012
Detrás de la iniciativa pueden verse los problemas que las empresas mineras, de energía eólica, turísticas y otras similares, igual que las instituciones estatales, están teniendo para ocupar las tierras de los ejidos y despojar a sus integrantes de su patrimonio.
L'agrobusiness brésilien envahit l'Afrique
- Brasil de Fato
- 30 November 2012
Au Mozambique, un méga projet menace de déplacer des millions de paysans