Sudan: Land Grabbing and Its Implications for Sudanese – Views from a Scholar

May 30, 2019 | Fredrick Mugira and Annika McGinnis, Water Journalists Africa
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Investors from largely food-insecure Gulf countries are increasingly buying vast swaths of fertile land irrigated by the Nile River in Sudan to grow food crops to sustain their populations. The Land Matrix database, which compiles data on land grabs from governments, companies, NGOs, the media and citizen contributions, has tracked 762,208 hectares of large-scale land acquisitions in Sudan since 1972, with most deals concluded after year 2000.