CHASHA FARMING
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- Jun 4, 2011
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The landgrabbing statistics worldwide and Africa in particular is not onlyoverwhelming but is also extraordinary shocking.
According to International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) aUS-based policy think thank, since 2006 between 15 million and 20 millionhectares of farmland around the world have been secured for biofuel and grainproduction, with most of these deals taking place in Africa .
The past five years has seen more African rich agricultural lands beingtaken over by food insecure but rich countries in the Middle East and richmultinational firms in Europe, US, and Asia particularly China, Korea andIndia.
Some of the land acquisitions have occurred under bizarre and non-transparent circumstancesmaking experts to warn of the consequences if the practice is not stopped.
In Mozambique for example China has US$800 million investment to expand100,000 to 500,000 metric tons of rice production in the country and Skebab(Sweden) and Sun Biofuels (UK) have acquired more than 100, 000 hectares ofland for biofuel production.
In Ethiopia FloraEcoPower (Germany) has acquired 13,000 hectares for bio-cropproduction while India is investing US$4 billion in agriculture, flower growingand sugar estates in the country.
In Tanzania SunBiofuels (UK) has acquired 5,500 hectares of land for sorghum (biofuel)production while the Chinese firm Chongqing See Corp has secured 300 hectaresof farm lands for rice production.
In the sameTanzania the Gulf State of Saudi Arabia has requested a lease of 500,000hectares of land.
In SouthernSudan Jarch Capital (USA) has signed a 400, 000 hectare deal with a local armycommander while the Middle East and Gulf States of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UnitedArab Emirates, Jordan, Kuwait and Egypt together have about 1.045m hectaresunder their thumb in that country. In the same Sudan, South Korea is runningaway with 690,000 hectares of farmland secured for wheat production.
In Nigeria,Trans4mation Agrictech Ltd (UK) has secured 10,000 hectares of land.
In Angola,Lornho (UK) has 25,000 hectares leased to her for rice cultivation and isnegotiating for a further 125,000 hectares in Malawi and Mali.
China hasrequested 2 million hectares for jetropha production in Zambia; and in DemocraticRepublic of Congo the Chinese firm ZTE International has secured 2.8 million hectares for biofuel oilpalm plantation [3].
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