Comments on: African agricultural finance under the spotlight http://blogs.reuters.com/africanews/2010/08/24/african-agricultural-finance-under-the-spotlight/ African business, politics and lifestyle Fri, 17 May 2013 00:10:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: tArranger http://blogs.reuters.com/africanews/2010/08/24/african-agricultural-finance-under-the-spotlight/comment-page-1/#comment-10371 tArranger Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:36:52 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/africanews/?p=4034#comment-10371 Mr. Mullin has assembled a good article that is timely given current trends in African countries and the fact governments are changing. Public/private/Partnerships are taking hold as the preferred route to raise finance for the required investment. Just examine the litany of new investment fund listed by Mt Mullins. Most have some eement of public institution participation - be it World Bank institutions, US Government or European governments. In the meantime, CHina is busy establishing food security-and is investing apace. Mr. Mullin has assembled a good article that is timely given current trends in African countries and the fact governments are changing. Public/private/Partnerships are taking hold as the preferred route to raise finance for the required investment. Just examine the litany of new investment fund listed by Mt Mullins. Most have some eement of public institution participation – be it World Bank institutions, US Government or European governments. In the meantime, CHina is busy establishing food security-and is investing apace.

]]> By: Deepakudage http://blogs.reuters.com/africanews/2010/08/24/african-agricultural-finance-under-the-spotlight/comment-page-1/#comment-9901 Deepakudage Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:52:28 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/africanews/?p=4034#comment-9901 Africa is Agriculture based continent.People does farming on large scale there.They are more concentrating on it.Its good that they are coming under spotlight due to the finance applied on it. <a href="http://www.financialculture.com/frugal-living-and-myths-surrounding-it/">frugal living</a> Africa is Agriculture based continent.People does farming on large scale there.They are more concentrating on it.Its good that they are coming under spotlight due to the finance applied on it.

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]]> By: JeromeJMW http://blogs.reuters.com/africanews/2010/08/24/african-agricultural-finance-under-the-spotlight/comment-page-1/#comment-8819 JeromeJMW Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:44:47 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/africanews/?p=4034#comment-8819 The author notes that "The fact that more than 13 million Ethiopians need food aid at the same time as the Ethiopian government is offering around 3m hectares of its most fertile land for the production of food for export is perverse. African governments need to raise their level of accountability and ensure at the very least that they improve and protect their own food security through quid pro quo side-agreements negotiated when they lease or sell their arable land to foreign interests; agreements that offer them a share of production intended for export for their own consumption." How is this to happen? I have virtually no faith in the foreign investors and developers taking the enlightened path, and the same for African government officials who are signing off on the deals. The Economist has called this the "new Colonialism" in Africa. Why should we think otherwise? The author notes that “The fact that more than 13 million Ethiopians need food aid at the same time as the Ethiopian government is offering around 3m hectares of its most fertile land for the production of food for export is perverse. African governments need to raise their level of accountability and ensure at the very least that they improve and protect their own food security through quid pro quo side-agreements negotiated when they lease or sell their arable land to foreign interests; agreements that offer them a share of production intended for export for their own consumption.”

How is this to happen? I have virtually no faith in the foreign investors and developers taking the enlightened path, and the same for African government officials who are signing off on the deals. The Economist has called this the “new Colonialism” in Africa. Why should we think otherwise?

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