DRC

Issue number 4/2011 of 'New Routes' by Life & Peace Institute (Uppsala)

Feronia Arable holds a 10,000 hectare concession in the Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, 200km from the national capital, Kinshasa.

« C’est comme ça que les politiciens croient qu’ils vont amener les investisseurs. Mais pour nous, les investisseurs vont créer le chômage parce qu’ils viendront prendre de terre pour nous chasser de notre métier », a poursuivi Mme Espérance Nzuzi.

Feronia Inc. got into the palm oil business in September 2009 through the purchase of a 100,000 hectare plantation in the Democratic Republic of Congo from Unilever.

Foreign investment in land opens a new chapter in the colonization of Africa, said today (Tuesday) in London one of the leaders of the think-tank Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA).

SA’s commercial agricultural skills are a sought-after currency on the continent, with Nigeria and Sierra Leone the latest to announce bold plans to recruit South African farmers to their countries.

Moise Katumbi, governor of mineral-rich Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has offered 14 million hectares of farmland to large-scale farmers to boost agriculture.

Le problème d’accès à la terre se pose avec acuité en RDC et les paysans paient un lourd tribut. Ils deviennent sans le savoir des gens sans terre dans leurs propres terres.

L’Italia non è estranea al fenomeno del land grabbing, anche se gli investimenti in terreni riguardano soprattutto aziende cinesi, indiane o saudite.E i gruppi italiani hanno messo le mani su oltre 1,5 milioni di ettari

"L'accaparement des terres c'est du banditisme d'Etat." Entretiens vidéos avec Ibrahim Coulibaly (la CNOP, Mali), Renaldo Chingore João (l'UNAC, Mozamique) et Melanie Kasom (la Confédération Paysanne, Congo).

South African farmers moving to neighbouring African states are not putting SA’s food security under threat, says Willie du Plessis, a director of agricultural banking at Standard Bank.

Not since Belgium's King Leopold turned the Congo into his personal market-garden has so much land been allocated to offshore nations.