SA’s SFM Africa to start sugar project and open luxury lodges in Gabon
Joburg-based SFM, which focuses on sustainable forest projects, plans to spend about $190m on a sugar project in the central African country
18 November 2019 - 12:15
Gorillas and sugar could be key to tapping the natural resources of Gabon, the world’s second-most forested nation after Suriname.
SFM Africa, a Johannesburg-based company that focuses on sustainable forest projects, plans to open a luxury safari lodge in Gabon in 2020 and spend about $190m on a sugar project in the central African country, said Alan Bernstein, SFM’s chair and CEO. The company has an 892,000ha land and marine concession in southern Gabon known, as Grande Mayumba...
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